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Themes labels used: class inequality, racism, classism, appropriation, exploitation, corruption, authoritarianism, social criticism, capitalism, privilege, human rights, freedom, surveillance, censorship, propaganda, violence, social control, identity, national identity, hope, resistance, truth and deception, education control, social stratification

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Saha

Cho Nam-Joo · 2022

In a corporate-run city-state, outcasts in a neglected housing complex live under class control as a disappearance draws one sister searching for answers.

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Themes labels: classism · capitalism critique · inequality · authoritarianism · social oppression · government oppression · corruption · human dignity · survival · community solidarity · marginalization · poverty · social mobility · identity status · disenfranchisement · labor exploitation · state control · class repression · social responsibility · violence

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Invisible Things

Mat Johnson · 2022

A sociologist on a Jupiter mission discovers a domed human colony whose hidden order mirrors Earth’s political failures.

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Themes labels: class inequality · racism · classism · colorism · greed · power · denial · collective blindness · propaganda · truth vs comfort · democracy · fascism · political corruption · election theft · assimilation · social stratification · denialism · human nature · existential dread · fear of truth · societal collapse · moral compromise

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain · 2007

A 19th-century Yankee wakes in King Arthur's Britain and tries to remake it with modern science, wit, and satire.

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Themes labels: social inequality · slavery · class system · monarchy · democracy · technology · industrialization · religion · organized religion · Catholic Church · progress · education · human nature · power · freedom · capitalism · war · violence · science versus superstition · modernity versus tradition · colonialism · patriotism · censorship of ideas · manufactured civilization · institutional corruption · social reform · human cruelty · moral hypocrisy

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Escape Velocity

Victor Manibo · 2024

At a luxury space-station reunion, wealthy alumni chase Mars access while old murders, secrets, and revolt threaten everyone aboard.

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Themes labels: class inequality · capitalism · colonialism · privilege · meritocracy · climate change · wealth disparity · social mobility · discrimination · diaspora · immigration · racism · ableism · queer identity · gender identity · solidarity · complicity · violence · justice · moral ambiguity · resource depletion

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Arca

Van Jensen · 2023

A teen laborer on a dying-Earth escape ship uncovers the hidden truth behind the elite’s promised paradise.

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Themes labels: class exploitation · wealth inequality · propaganda · indoctrination · citizenship · knowledge versus ignorance · power and control · revolution · social stratification · slavery · literacy · truth and deception · survival · questioning authority · class consciousness · capitalist critique

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Cover of This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

This Great Hemisphere

Mateo Askaripour · 2024

An invisible woman in a future caste state hunts for her missing brother after he’s named in a political murder.

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Themes labels: racism · classism · oppression · power · resistance · hope · propaganda · truth manipulation · political corruption · social control · liberation · identity · agency · cyclical history · state violence · civil rights

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Cover of Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode

Numbers Game

Rebecca Rode · 2015 · Numbers Game

In a ranked future society, a teen’s shocking low score sends her undercover into a military spy hunt.

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Themes labels: social control · classism · identity · worth and value · conformity · rebellion · corruption · freedom · truth seeking · surveillance · propaganda · agency · morality · dehumanization · appearance and status

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Show Stopper

Hayley Barker · 2017 · Show Stopper

In a brutal near-future circus society, a privileged boy and an enslaved performer risk everything to escape oppression.

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Themes labels: racism · xenophobia · immigration · class inequality · oppression · privilege · dehumanization · propaganda · resistance · freedom · moral awakening · state violence · exploitation · entertainment violence · identity · social injustice · complicity · human rights

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Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar · 2024

A boy lifted from a mining ship’s underclass and a professor from within the system uncover the chains binding them both.

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Themes labels: class oppression · slavery · incarceration · academia · social hierarchy · resistance · solidarity · human connection · exploitation · respectability politics · colonialism · capitalism · race · freedom · humanity · decolonizing institutions · education as transformation · moral compromise

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Reap

Casey L. Bond · 2014 · The Harvest Saga

In a caste-divided future, a village harvester is pulled into rebellion while torn between loyalty, love, and survival.

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Themes labels: class inequality · oppression · freedom · choice · agency · identity · loyalty · betrayal · survival · injustice · resistance · love versus duty · hope · control · social hierarchy · secrets and lies

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GRM: Brainfuck

Sibylle Berg · 2019 · GRM: Brainfuck

In near-future Britain, four marginalized kids fight a system of surveillance, control, and collapse.

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Themes labels: class inequality · neoliberalism · surveillance · digital control · automation · alienation · hope versus despair · social decay · violence · misogyny · racism · homophobia · patriarchy · capitalism · technological dependency · media manipulation · dehumanization · youth marginalization · political extremism · post-truth

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Breakaway

Michelle Diener · 2018 · Verdant String

On a corporate-controlled mining planet, a resistance woman and a shadowy crime lord join forces to topple their oppressors.

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Themes labels: class inequality · corporate greed · resistance · rebellion · freedom · oppression · justice · trust · secrecy · loyalty · protectiveness · self-determination · survival · corruption · social control · education deprivation · labor exploitation · wealth disparity · ends justify means · home vs prison · community duty · personal sacrifice

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