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Themes labels used: identity, belonging, loneliness, morality, ethics, human evolution, individuality, collective self, symbiosis, alienation, power, conscience, difference, social acceptance, humanity, psychiatry, sanity, morality and power, group purpose

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Sirius

Olaf Stapledon · 2000

A scientist raises a dog with human intelligence, and his lonely life exposes the limits of belonging, love, and humanity.

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Themes labels: alienation · otherness · identity · belonging · consciousness · humanity · nature versus nurture · intelligence · love · loneliness · religion · spirit · society and prejudice · ethics of experimentation · war · fear of the unknown · community · soul · meaning of life · free will · self-worth · difference · empathy · bigotry · disability

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Distance: 0.0880

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To Marry Medusa

Theodore Sturgeon · 1999

An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.

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Themes labels: collective consciousness · individuality · community · cooperation · alienation · human nature · humanism · transcendence · evolution · identity · selfhood · miscommunication · loneliness · fear · violence · hope · optimism · compassion · civilization · social critique · gender and sex · sexuality · class

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Distance: 0.0938

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The Werewolf Principle

Clifford D. Simak · 1994

An amnesiac space traveler returns to a strange future Earth and discovers his body hides multiple minds and a buried secret.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · selfhood · consciousness · mind-body problem · bioethics · genetic engineering · evolution · otherness · acceptance · intolerance · exploration ethics · alienation · purpose · loneliness · memory · free will · plural identity

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Distance: 0.0946

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2017

A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.

Why this is here

Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement

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Distance: 0.0964

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Lágrimas en la lluvia

Rosa Montero · 2011 · Bruna Husky

A replicant detective in future Madrid investigates violent deaths while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens her kind.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · memory · mortality · death · survival · ethics · morality · love · need for others · loneliness · alienation · social inequality · racism · specism · discrimination · political corruption · power · freedom · privacy · truth · history manipulation · climate change · environmental collapse · class division · humanity · acceptance of difference

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Distance: 0.1054

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A Neon Darkness

Lauren Shippen · 2020 · The Bright Sessions

A troubled teen with mind-control powers finds a superpowered friend group in L.A., but belonging comes at a dangerous cost.

Why this is here

Themes labels: control · consent · belonging · loneliness · desire · identity · responsibility · power and privilege · freedom · connection · trauma · selfhood · morality · acceptance · humanity · consequence

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میرا

Christopher Frank · 2005

In a glass-walled, conformity-obsessed society, one woman’s love and difference threaten the rules.

Why this is here

Themes labels: individuality · freedom · privacy · conformity · collectivism · control · surveillance · identity · love · loneliness · alienation · choice · resistance · humanity · body autonomy · social equality · otherness · shame · desire

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Distance: 0.1078

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Wakers

Orson Scott Card · 2022 · The Side Step Trilogy

A clone teen with the power to jump realities wakes alone on abandoned Earth and must solve why he was created.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · choice · consequence · free will · morality · responsibility · selfhood · humanity · survival · loneliness · trust · reality · causality · multiple selves · purpose · sacrifice · love

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Distance: 0.1088

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Evolved

N.R. Walker · 2018

In a near-future Australia, a lonely professor buys a custom android companion—then discovers he may be becoming sentient.

Why this is here

Themes labels: humanity · sentience · free will · consent · identity · love · companionship · loneliness · ethics · personhood · self-awareness · technology · belonging · otherness · rights · moral agency

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Gladiator

Philip Wylie · 1930

A super-strong man’s life unfolds as he searches for belonging while society fears the gift that sets him apart.

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Themes labels: alienation · otherness · individualism · human nature · morality · responsibility · purpose · identity · belonging · society and difference · war futility · disillusionment · eugenics · superiority · gift and burden · fear of difference · modernity · nature vs nurture · loneliness · bullying · social criticism · human limitation · power and ethics · self-control · despair · hope · sexism · racism

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Distance: 0.1134

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Resident Alien Volume 1: Welcome to Earth!

Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse · 2013 · Resident Alien (Collected Editions)

A stranded alien posing as a small-town doctor gets pulled into a murder mystery while trying to stay hidden.

Why this is here

Themes labels: Belonging · Isolation · Secrecy · Humanity · Community · Loneliness · Observation · Identity · Friendship · Hope · Trust · Fear and courage · Everyday life · Morality

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Distance: 0.1163

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I Think I'm in Love with an Alien

Ann Aguirre · 2025

A stranded alien and a space-obsessed human fall for each other after their online friend group meets at a sci-fi con.

Why this is here

Themes labels: belonging · loneliness · acceptance · identity · outsiderhood · friendship · chosen family · healing · consent · misunderstanding · self-worth · being yourself · connection · community · alienation · sexuality · neurodiversity · privacy · trust

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Distance: 0.1173

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