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Themes labels used: what it means to be human, ethics of science, human evolution, identity, difference and acceptance, othering, consciousness, nature versus nurture, humanity and morality, power and wealth, responsibility, hubris, prejudice, surveillance and exposure, press intrusion, mental illness, climate change, political critique, Brexit critique, science versus ethics

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The Rediscovery of Man

Cordwainer Smith · 1999 · Instrumentality of Mankind

A far-future story collection traces humanity’s strange evolution through mythic tales of power, animals, space travel, and personhood.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · humanism · ethics · social justice · equality · civil rights · animal rights · identity · personhood · freedom · oppression · happiness vs suffering · technology and humanity · science and religion · memory and history · civilization and decay · post-humanity · morality · loneliness · love as equalizer · martyrdom · evolution · biological alteration · psychological control · utopia with dark underbelly · class hierarchy

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Doctor Who: Only Human

Gareth Roberts · 2005 · Doctor Who: New Series Adventures

A Neanderthal stranded in modern London leads the Doctor, Rose, and Jack into a time-travel mystery at humanity’s dawn.

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Themes labels: human nature · identity · what it means to be human · evolution · prejudice · dehumanization · ethics of science · genetic engineering · emotions and control · violence and civilization · cultural adaptation · history and extinction

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Upgrade

Blake Crouch · 2022

A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · evolution · compassion · intelligence · environment · climate change · genetic responsibility · scientific hubris · free will · species survival · moral dilemma · unintended consequences · identity · what it means to be human

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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976

After ecological collapse and mass sterility, one family turns to cloning to preserve humanity—then their new society changes the rules.

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Themes labels: individuality · collectivism · conformity · human nature · what it means to be human · survival ethics · creativity · imagination · nature vs technology · ecology · sterility · reproduction · genetic diversity · freedom · community · alienation · control · evolution · identity · moral tradeoffs

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The Fox Inheritance

Mary E. Pearson · 2011 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes 260 years later in a new body and must escape a controlling scientist to find the friend she lost.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · personhood · bioethics · mortality · guilt · forgiveness · acceptance · change · memory · free will · compassion · technology and ethics · body and mind · classism · discrimination · human relationships · societal change · what it means to be human

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A Calculated Life

Anne Charnock · 2013

A hyper-intelligent engineered analyst in a controlled near-future society starts questioning her role, freedom, and humanity.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · humanity · free will · identity · autonomy · class inequality · labor exploitation · corporate power · social control · alienation · self-discovery · ethics · empathy · normality · technology and society · transhumanism · dehumanization · surveillance · consent

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Under the Skin

Michel Faber · 2004

A lone woman drives Scottish roads picking up muscle-bound hitchhikers, but her routine hides a far stranger truth.

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Themes labels: humanity · empathy · identity · alienation · otherness · moral responsibility · speciesism · animal cruelty · factory farming · gender · sexism · class inequality · entitlement · compassion · exile · vulnerability · power · body autonomy · selfhood · community · deception · what it means to be human

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Genome

A.G. Riddle · 2017 · The Extinction Files

A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.

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Themes labels: human nature · evolution · identity · free will · control · power · technology ethics · science and morality · existential questions · what it means to be human · privacy · freedom · survival · sacrifice · good vs evil · transhumanism · government control · social order · knowledge and secrecy

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Assignment in Eternity

Robert A. Heinlein · 2000 · Assignment in Eternity

Four early Heinlein stories explore superhuman potential, psychic powers, time travel, and the question of what makes someone human.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · human potential · superiority · civil rights · liberty · elitism · eugenics · slavery · collective advancement · hidden knowledge · education · belief vs skepticism · scientific rationalism · moral responsibility · censorship

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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · 2017 · Constellation

A teen soldier and an evolved robot are forced into an interstellar mission that could end a war and change both of them.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · free will · soul · sentience · identity · self discovery · sacrifice · morality · war ethics · environmentalism · religion · faith · politics · altruism · personhood · belief · humanity

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2010

A woman recalls her sheltered childhood at an isolated boarding school as buried truths about her life and future emerge.

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Themes labels: mortality · humanity · identity · memory · loss · acceptance · fate · free will · ethics · bioethics · dehumanization · social alienation · class power · body autonomy · friendship · love · betrayal · art and meaning · conformity · conditioning · hope and hopelessness · what it means to be human

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 2014 · The Girl With All the Gifts

A gifted child in a fortified lab-cum-school faces a world-shaking truth as a fungal apocalypse closes in.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · ethics · morality · survival · love and acceptance · identity · innocence · self-reliance · sacrifice · parenthood · human experimentation · knowledge and awakening · predator and prey

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