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Premise labels used: time travel, memory loss, created human, genetic engineering, on the run, search for cure, love triangle

Themes labels used: identity, memory, free will, control, trust, loyalty, love versus duty, choice, humanity, secrets, survival, self-discovery, power abuse, corporate control

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Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Themes labels: truth and deception · identity · memory · control · free will · trust · human experimentation · war and survival · love versus programming · corruption · power and profit · body autonomy

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UnHappenings

Edward Aubry · 2015

A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · retroactive change · alternate timeline · butterfly effect · lost relationships · doomed love · future self · time paradox · personal stakes · memory of original timeline

Themes labels: choice and consequence · personal responsibility · destiny · moral dilemma · loss · love versus duty · identity · memory · free will · selfishness · sacrifice · loneliness

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Paycheck

Philip K. Dick · 1953

A memory-wiped engineer receives odd trinkets instead of his paycheck and must use them to survive and uncover the truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory wipe · future clues · on the run · corporate secret · time-scooping · predestination · survival puzzle

Themes labels: memory · identity · free will · predestination · agency · value of objects · future planning · corporate power · state power · individual rights · survival · trust in self · choice · paranoia · selfhood · time and value

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Unremembered

Jessica Brody · 2013 · Unremembered

An amnesiac teen survivor of a plane crash must uncover her identity while a strange boy claims he knows her from before.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · plane crash survivor · identity mystery · memory manipulation · lost past · hidden origins · scientific conspiracy · boy from the past · trust the stranger · time-displaced romance · genetic mystery · humanity question

Themes labels: identity · memory and self · human nature · trust · love versus science · ethics of science · free will · fate · self-discovery · what makes us human · control · past and memory

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A Town Called Discovery

R.R. Haywood · 2020

A memoryless man is forced through brutal reset-and-retry trials on a time-bending mission to reach Discovery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · memory loss · death loop · brutal trials · AI overseen mission · save humanity

Themes labels: identity · fate · free will · cause and effect · survival · violence · history · good vs evil · memory · humanity

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G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students.

Jaye Pratt · 2021 · G.O.D.S

A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · foster care · secret organization · genetically engineered humans · child soldiers · protective harem · lost identity · mystery note · revenge

Themes labels: identity · memory · truth and lies · secrets · betrayal · revenge · power · control · free will · loyalty · trust · trauma · fate · nature versus nurture · female empowerment (contested)

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The Other Me

Sarah Zachrich Jeng · 2021

A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate life · do-over · identity crisis · memory conflict · choice and consequence · mystery setup · reality shift · time travel

Themes labels: free will · choice · identity · women's choices · regret · self-determination · career vs marriage · relationships · autonomy · technology and ethics · memory · fate · alternate paths · gender roles

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A Complicated Love Story Set in Space

Shaun David Hutchinson · 2021

Three confused teens wake aboard a failing spaceship and must solve the mystery of how they got there while falling in love.

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Premise labels: space survival · memory loss · trapped aboard ship · mystery setup · forced proximity · love story · identity crisis

Themes labels: memory · identity · authenticity · agency · free will · trauma · healing · love · survival · fate · choice · belonging · humanity · trust · self-definition

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False Memory

Dan Krokos · 2012 · False Memory

An amnesiac teen must trust a stranger to uncover her identity and escape the secret experiment behind her powers.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · genetic experimentation · psychic weapons · teen super-soldiers · elite team · weaponized teens · identity mystery · fugitives

Themes labels: identity · memory · trust · control · free will · experiment ethics · genetic engineering · human weapon · war and peace · self-discovery · loyalty · truth vs lies · power and responsibility · family bonds · first love

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Exhalation

Ted Chiang · 2019

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

Why this is here

Premise labels: thought experiment · what if · technological change · free will · alternate realities · time travel · artificial intelligence · memory · human condition

Themes labels: free will · determinism · fate · memory · identity · consciousness · entropy · technology ethics · humanity · faith and science · communication · oral tradition · writing · responsibility · self-acceptance · predestination · death · choice · parallel selves · nurture

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Betrayal

Pippa DaCosta · 2017 · The 1000 Revolution

An ex-smuggler and a rogue synthetic stowaway collide in a violent, corporate-controlled space future full of secrets.

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Premise labels: smuggler · synthetic person · killer AI · memory transfer · on-the-run · corporate oppression · hidden past · revenge

Themes labels: betrayal · redemption · revenge · identity · free will · memory · humanity · survival · guilt · secrets · morality · control · trust

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Altered

Jennifer Rush · 2013 · Altered

A sheltered teen flees with four amnesiac, genetically altered boys and must uncover the secrets of their pasts before they’re caught.

Why this is here

Premise labels: genetically altered boys · secret lab · runaways · memory loss · secret project · on the run · hidden identities · government conspiracy · escape mission · search for the past

Themes labels: identity · memory · trust · betrayal · freedom · control · agency · secrets · lies · self-discovery · humanity vs science · science vs human nature · friendship · family · morality · loyalty · survival

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