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Themes labels used: gender politics, feminism, survival, grief, closure, sacrifice, identity, humanity, social reconstruction, loss, love, mourning, cooperation, scarcity, endings, fate

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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Charlie Jane Anders · 2021

Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.

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Themes labels: free will · fate · identity · gender · sexuality · queerness · transness · love · loss · hope · community · survival · politics · oppression · climate change · technology and society · grief · belonging · art and expression · social division · ethics · responsibility

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The Mythic Dream

Dominik Parisien · 2019

Eighteen myth retellings from varied cultures recast classic stories through fantasy, sci-fi, and queer reinterpretation.

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Themes labels: agency · reclamation · gender roles · motherhood · power · justice · balance · judgment · sacrifice · love · grief · memory · loss · oppression · patriarchy · social justice · queerness · identity · trauma · forgiveness · obsession · capitalism · technology and religion · prophecy · violence · fear · power systems · anti-oppression · intersectional feminism

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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Meg Elison · 2016 · The Road to Nowhere

A midwife survives a plague that decimates women and children, then travels a brutal new world in disguise.

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Themes labels: survival · misogyny · feminism · gender roles · reproduction · motherhood · bodily autonomy · power · human nature · hope · despair · trauma · civilizational collapse · sexual violence · commodity bodies · queer identity · history keeping · resilience · community

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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2012 · The Unreal and the Real

A self-selected collection of Le Guin’s earthbound short fiction, mixing realist, folkloric, and quietly strange stories.

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Themes labels: identity · gender · feminism · politics · authoritarianism · oppression · ecology · human condition · language · storytelling · moral dilemma · autonomy · loss · grief · memory · freedom · class · social systems · cultural heritage · perspective · empathy · sexual politics · science ethics · nature

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The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch · 2017

In a ruined future Earth, a rebel girl and a body artist challenge a tyrant ruling a sexless space colony.

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Themes labels: gender fluidity · feminism · environmental collapse · survival · power · body politics · humanity · art and storytelling · identity · reproduction · desire · violence · ecology · late capitalism · tyranny · resistance · mortality · corporeality

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The Men

Sandra Newman · 2022

When all people with Y chromosomes vanish, one grieving woman navigates a remade world, a political movement, and a baffling mystery.

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Themes labels: grief · trauma · feminism · patriarchy · gender · sexual violence · power · community · individual vs collective · race · racism · police violence · carceral state · climate crisis · survival · utopia · ambiguous morality · identity · sexuality · social reconstruction · political ideology · moral dilemma

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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

Sean Lusk · 2022

A gifted clockmaker’s son grows up amid automata, family loss, and a search that leads from London to Constantinople.

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Themes labels: love · loss · identity · belonging · family · sacrifice · grief · secrecy · independence · education · gender equality · politics · war · conservation · LGBTQ issues · adolescent rebellion · socioeconomics · self-discovery

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Slow Gods

Claire North · 2025

An immortal pilot from a brutal star society becomes central to a galaxy-wide response to an impending supernova.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · mortality · immortality · memory · belonging · love · grief · loss · meaning of life · ethics · morality · agency · free will · power · control · oppression · capitalism critique · climate denial · war · sacrifice · community · cultural survival · history · preservation · perception · belief · othering · gender · language · home · diaspora

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The End of Men

Christina Sweeney-Baird · 2021

A near-future male-specific plague forces women worldwide to survive, rebuild society, and race for a vaccine.

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Themes labels: gender inequality · patriarchy · grief · loss · resilience · adaptation · survival · motherhood · fertility · family · social restructuring · public health · government failure · scientific trust · reproduction · remembering the dead · female empowerment · male vulnerability · change

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

Joe Hill, Theodora Goss, Neil Gaiman, Susan Palwick, Adam-Troy Castro, Sam J. Miller, Daniel H. Wilson, Nathan Ballingrud, Kelly Link, Jess Row, Kelly Sandoval, T. Coraghessan Boyle, A. Merc Rustad, Sofia Samatar, Carmen Maria Machado, Cat Rambo, Karen Russell, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Seanan McGuire, Jo Walton · 2015 · The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy

A curated anthology of 20 standout-and-divisive 2015 science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen blind by Joe Hill.

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Themes labels: depression · death · destruction · grief · loss · identity · humanity · technology · body autonomy · gender · feminism · colonialism · cultural appropriation · worldbuilding · memory · resurrection · transformation · isolation · hope · emotional resonance · creative imagination