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Themes labels used: humanity, ethics, perfection, power, privilege, class inequality, bodily autonomy, identity, morality, eugenics, technology and society, medical ethics, social control, discrimination, life and death, progress and consequences, vanity, fear of change, human nature

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UnSouled

Neal Shusterman · 2013 · Unwind Dystology

Fugitive teens chase answers about unwinding while converging plots, shifting loyalties, and hidden history reshape everything.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · personhood · ethics · morality · political power · social control · body autonomy · human rights · sacrifice · parental choice · class inequality · disposability · hope · fear · coming of age · responsibility · conscience · corruption · resistance · propaganda · corporate power · government power · moral ambiguity · existentialism

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The Complete Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1995 · Robot

Asimov’s thematic robot anthology explores the Three Laws through human-robot puzzles, ethics, and future society.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · consciousness · identity · personhood · rights · labor · technology and society · fear of technology · human nature · prejudice · freedom · immortality · evolution

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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 2000 · The Complete Stories

A robot collection centered on sentience, freedom, and humanity, anchored by the title story of Andrew’s long quest for personhood.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · freedom · personhood · civil rights · consciousness · ethics · technology and society · transhumanism · artificial intelligence · gender roles · sexism · religion · environmental harm · mortality · sacrifice · class · prejudice · slavery

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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · memory · aging · mortality · ethics · medical ethics · scientific ethics · transhumanism · selfhood · body image · beauty standards · disfigurement · disability · race · privilege · legacy · love · family · greed · selfishness · continuity of self · soul

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · selfhood · human nature · souls · memory · personhood · morality of cloning · privacy · class · prejudice · responsibility · free will · transcendence · godhood · ethics of technology · social change · cheating/fidelity · mortality

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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · selfhood · personhood · bioethics · cloning ethics · rights and dignity · individual rights vs collective good · belonging · freedom · human experimentation · memory and origin · trust · morality of science · family · love · survival · acceptance

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Cover of Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler

Patternmaster

Octavia E. Butler · 1976 · Patternist

A dying telepathic ruler’s sons battle for succession in a brutal future where power, slavery, and mutation shape society.

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Themes labels: power · slavery · freedom · self-determination · oppression · hierarchy · control · personhood · humanity · eugenics · telepathy · gender power · patriarchy · race · empathy · survival · collective identity · social status · freedom vs submission · dehumanization

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The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification

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Cover of Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty · 2017

Six cloned crew members wake on a crippled ship beside their murdered former bodies and must solve the crime before it repeats.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · clone rights · ethics of cloning · immortality · memory · moral responsibility · consciousness · humanity · religion and science · law and society · class and privilege · guilt and culpability · prejudice · technology and ethics

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The Hierarchies

Ros Anderson · 2020

A sentient sex robot in a near-future hierarchy starts questioning her place, her programming, and what freedom costs.

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Themes labels: personhood · consent · autonomy · free will · female oppression · gender roles · patriarchy · objectification · exploitation · humanity · consciousness · technology and power · identity · selfhood · body politics · class inequality · sexual violence · representation of women · labor and ownership · ethics of creation

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