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Themes labels used: 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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Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2025

An original 1818 Gothic classic where a scientist creates life, then faces the human cost of abandonment.

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Themes labels: ambition · isolation · moral responsibility · unchecked science · creation and destruction · loneliness · rejection · otherness · identity · humanity · monstrosity · nature vs nurture · parenthood · ethics · compassion · empathy · hubris · justice · grief · vengeance · social prejudice · class difference

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2018

A scientist creates life from dead matter, then faces the human and moral consequences of abandoning his creation.

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Themes labels: ambition · hubris · responsibility · otherness · loneliness · isolation · rejection · compassion · revenge · grief · guilt · identity · humanity · science and ethics · religion and science · nature and culture · free will · classism · prejudice · parenthood · creation · mortality · death · knowledge · freedom · belonging · abandonment

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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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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Frankenstein The Graphic Novel

Jason Cobley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joe Sutliff Sanders · 2009

A graphic retelling of Frankenstein follows a scientist, his creation, and the tragic fallout of bringing life to the dead.

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Themes labels: acceptance · tolerance · understanding · companionship · love · scientific responsibility · consequences · difference and rejection · loneliness · kindness vs cruelty · nature vs nurture · appearance and judgment · moral complexity · revenge · humanity

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エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1]

Lynn Okamoto, 岡本倫 · 2002 · Elfen Lied

An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.

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Themes labels: identity · prejudice · discrimination · abuse · trauma · alienation · revenge · human cruelty · loneliness · nature vs nurture · dehumanization · survival · acceptance · jealousy · self-worth

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More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon · 1979

Misfit children with psychic gifts form a shared consciousness and must decide what power, identity, and humanity mean.

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Themes labels: 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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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.

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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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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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The Man in the Maze

Robert Silverberg · 1969

An exiled diplomat with a dangerous alien curse is hunted down to help humanity contact a new alien threat.

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Themes labels: alienation · isolation · othering · human condition · trust · betrayal · honor · free will · sacrifice · greater good · moral responsibility · human nature · belonging · loneliness · empathy · communication · psyche · self-knowledge · redemption · ambition · social rejection · male bonding · human connection

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Planetes Omnibus, Volume 1

Makoto Yukimura · 2015 · Planetes

A near-future manga about a crew cleaning dangerous space debris while ambition, grief, and purpose collide in orbit.

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Themes labels: humanity · existential questions · grief · loss · memory · ambition · exploration · freedom · love · belonging · sacrifice · environmentalism · responsibility · morality · loneliness · human connection · work dignity · self-destruction · dreams · purpose · ethics of expansion · class · prejudice · militarism · spiritualism · isolation

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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.

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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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