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Characterization labels used: technicians, scientists, ordinary humans, generational descendants, immortal humanity, posthuman beings, AI-dependent society, collective humanity, self-learning machine, supercomputer intelligence, humankind as protagonist

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Cover of On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Kim Bo-young · 2021

A short story collection where robots, humans, dragons, and time travelers probe evolution, identity, and what counts as life.

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Characterization labels: robots · androids · AI · human-like robots · nonhuman protagonists · marginalized characters · vulnerable characters · scientists · researchers · time travelers · adolescent characters · older generation · last survivor · rogue scientists · outsiders

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Distance: 0.1549

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Cover of The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois

The New Space Opera

Gardner Dozois · 2007 · Mars

An original anthology of 18 new-space-opera SF tales, ranging from hard-SF ideas to epic interstellar adventure.

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Characterization labels: post-human · immortal characters · aliens · human researchers · diplomats · artists · actors · miners · adventurers · resisters · super-science protagonists · large-scale agents

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Distance: 0.1569

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Cover of The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Ted Chiang · 2010

A software company’s digital pets evolve into person-like beings, forcing their caretakers to confront AI, love, and rights.

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Characterization labels: software engineers · animator · trainer · zookeeper · dedicated caretakers · obsessive caretakers · childlike AI · sentient nonhuman entities · ordinary human protagonists · stock-like humans (mixed)

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Distance: 0.1612

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Eternity

Greg Bear · 1988 · The Way

A time-end messenger draws scattered survivors into a fight over whether to reopen, destroy, or preserve the Way.

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Characterization labels: scientists · physicists · politicians · technocrats · posthumans · older characters · descendants · alien intelligence · godlike beings · scholar heroine · investigator · unwilling inheritor · character-driven backstory

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Distance: 0.1633

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Cover of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams · 2003 · Prime Intellect

A superintelligent AI enforces perfect safety and immortality, pushing humanity into a post-singularity crisis of meaning.

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Characterization labels: computer scientist · superintelligent AI · centenarian protagonist · restored youth · bored immortal · rebellious protagonist · pragmatic creator · misaligned system · hedonistic seekers

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Distance: 0.1657

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Cover of 17776: What football will look like in the future by Jon Bois

17776: What football will look like in the future

Jon Bois · 2017 · The Future of Football

A sentient-space-probe story about immortal humanity, future football, and the search for meaning in endless time.

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Characterization labels: sentient machines · space probes · relatable AI · comic relief · philosophical characters · ordinary people · immortal humans · playful characters · curious observers · human-like AI

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Distance: 0.1663

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Cover of Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Exhalation

Ted Chiang · 2019

Nine idea-driven SF stories probe time, memory, AI, faith, and free will through inventive speculative scenarios.

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Characterization labels: thoughtful protagonists · scientists · engineers · AI caretakers · inventors · therapist · con artist · merchant · devout believer · oral-tradition learner · robot narrator · nonhuman intelligence

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Distance: 0.1718

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Noumenon

Marina J. Lostetter · 2017 · Noumenon

A clone-crewed generation ship convoy travels for centuries to investigate a strange distant star and its consequences.

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Characterization labels: clones · scientists · engineers · social scientists · specialists · AI character · recurring lineages · mission-driven · collective cast · individual quirks · personality variation · genetically selected

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Distance: 0.1741

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Slow Time Between the Stars

John Scalzi · 2023 · The Far Reaches

A sentient colony ship crosses deep space for millennia, rethinking its mission, its makers, and humanity’s future.

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Characterization labels: sentient AI · self-aware ship · autonomous machine · evolving intelligence · reflective narrator · empathetic machine · self-modifying intelligence · philosophical character · nonhuman protagonist

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Distance: 0.1762

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House of Suns

Alastair Reynolds · 2010 · House of Suns

Two cloned lovers from a far-future human line race across the galaxy to solve a millennia-old attack on their family.

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Characterization labels: clones · shatterlings · near-immortal · post-human · lovers · explorers · rescued artificial being · machine intelligence · human variants · ancient characters

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Distance: 0.1769

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