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Themes labels used: identity, authenticity, consciousness, human nature, mortality, immortality, madness, language, representation, memory, selfhood, ethics, scientific ethics, philosophy of mind, body-mind relationship, truth, forgery, soul

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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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The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares · 2003

A fugitive hides on a remote island, where mysterious visitors and an impossible romance lead him into a reality-bending discovery.

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Themes labels: immortality · death · time · identity · reality · illusion · memory · consciousness · loneliness · technology · love · desire · perception · sanity · existentialism · mortality · truth · human connection · image · the self

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Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death

Alan Moore · 1995 · Swamp Thing (1982) (Collected Editions)

A sentient swamp creature faces a resurrected enemy, journeys through Hell, and redefines love and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · death · love · grief · resurrection · transformation · nature · environmentalism · memory · spirituality · afterlife · self-discovery · body-soul split · morality · mythmaking

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BRZRKR, Volume 2

Keanu Reeves · 2022 · BRZRKR

An immortal warrior’s memories are forced open by government experiments, pushing him closer to his origins and freedom.

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Themes labels: immortality · mortality · identity · memory · loneliness · loss · violence · free will · exploration of origins · humanity · power and exploitation · purpose · consciousness · dependency · dehumanization

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Cover of 宝石の国 2 [Hōseki no Kuni 2] by Haruko Ichikawa

宝石の国 2 [Hōseki no Kuni 2]

Haruko Ichikawa, 市川春子 · 2014 · 宝石の国 [Hōseki no Kuni]

A gem-bodied outcast dives into the sea for answers, uncovering buried world secrets and a widening conflict.

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Themes labels: mortality · immortality · identity · purpose · memory · body and self · transformation · loss of innocence · moral complexity · humanity · sacrifice · value of life · self-worth · attachment

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The Affirmation

Christopher Priest · 1983

A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · reality · fiction and truth · madness · schizophrenia · immortality · selfhood · consciousness · metafiction · grief · loss · autobiography · metaphor · higher truth · sanity · perception · meaning-making · life writing · existential uncertainty

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The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg · 1972

Four college roommates chase a secret to immortality, only to face a ritual that demands an impossible price.

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Themes labels: immortality · death · sacrifice · morality · existentialism · self-discovery · identity · sexuality · homosexuality · bisexuality · desire · faith · belief · skepticism · spirituality · religion · mysticism · free will · self-knowledge · male identity · privilege · class · coming of age · self-destruction · human nature

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Software

Rudy Rucker · 1982 · Ware

An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · selfhood · immortality · free will · evolution · personhood · transhumanism · what makes a soul · humanity · memory · body versus mind · technology and morality · individuality versus collectivism

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Cover of The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi

The Sagan Diary

John Scalzi · 2007 · Old Man's War

Jane Sagan reflects on war, love, and identity in a lyrical diary as she leaves soldiering behind.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · mortality · death · love · sex · fear · sacrifice · memory · humanity · war · duty · freedom · language · selfhood · moral ambiguity · aging · transition · emotional repression · inner life

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Permutation City

Greg Egan · 1995

A near-future mind-uploading experiment spirals into a vast inquiry into reality, identity, immortality, and simulated life.

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Themes labels: consciousness · identity · immortality · reality · free will · personhood · ethics of copies · mortality · mind-body problem · selfhood · moral status · time perception · humanity · god complex · existentialism · determinism · class inequality · value of life · legal rights · simulation

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