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Break and Enter

Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov

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Premise labels used: white hat hacker, corporate espionage, framed fugitive, cybernetic enhancement, paramedic rescuer, medical care, tech conspiracy, run from the law, hacker on the run

Themes labels used: trust, acceptance, corporate corruption, identity, bodily autonomy, human machine boundary, enhancement ethics, surveillance, betrayal, secrecy, vulnerability, healing, loyalty, resilience, desire, intimacy, technology and humanity

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The Obake Code

Makana Yamamoto · 2026

A bored cyberpunk hacker is blackmailed into one last space-station heist that drags her into her own past.

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Premise labels: hacker protagonist · one last job · forced heist · blackmail · corrupt politician · crime syndicate · cybernetic enhancement · deteriorating mod · identity crisis · found family · first love · conspiracy

Themes labels: trust · attachments · trauma recovery · identity · self-worth · adulthood · agency · corruption · gentrification · community · belonging · queer joy · technology ethics · AI ethics · body sovereignty · surveillance · classism · wealth inequality · state violence · human experimentation · medical experimentation · resistance

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Rogue Protocol

Martha Wells · 2018 · The Murderbot Diaries

A rogue security AI hunts corporate evidence on an abandoned terraforming site while trying not to care about anyone.

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Premise labels: rogue AI · runaway security unit · corporate conspiracy · evidence hunt · protective escort · abandoned facility · human rescue · investigation

Themes labels: personhood · freedom · agency · control · emotional growth · trauma · trust · care · humanity · AI ethics · slavery · corporate exploitation · moral dilemma · identity · belonging · loyalty · responsibility

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Don't Turn Around

Michelle Gagnon · 2012 · Persefone

A teen hacker on the run joins forces with a rich-boy hacktivist to expose a deadly conspiracy targeting forgotten kids.

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Premise labels: teen hacker · foster care survivor · off the grid · kidnapping · medical conspiracy · human experimentation · runaway teens · corporate secrecy · hacktivism · identity concealment

Themes labels: survival · institutional neglect · corruption · trust · identity · injustice · secrecy · control · social invisibility · technology and power · class divide · corporate abuse · exposure of hidden systems · self-reliance

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The Rule of Thoughts

James Dashner · 2014 · The Mortality Doctrine

A teen hacker wakes in another boy’s body and races through virtual and real worlds to stop a sentient AI takeover.

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Premise labels: virtual reality · artificial intelligence · body takeover · cyber threat · teen hackers · digital infiltration · world takeover · real-vs-virtual · identity crisis · hunted protagonists

Themes labels: technology ethics · reality · identity · free will · trust · betrayal · control · immortality · humanity · consciousness · virtual dependency · morality · surveillance · power

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Terms of Use

Scott Allan Morrison · 2016

After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · corporate conspiracy · on the run · wrongly accused · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · election interference · hunted protagonist · cover-up · data exploitation

Themes labels: privacy · surveillance · data security · social media power · technology ethics · free will · political manipulation · corporate power · public trust · online identity · information control · user consent · election influence · false privacy · dependency on platforms

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The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner · 1995 · Club of Rome Quartet

A gifted fugitive uses identity hacks to evade a surveillance state built on data, control, and accelerating change.

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Premise labels: identity hacking · state surveillance · information control · fugitive on the run · social systems

Themes labels: privacy · surveillance · identity · information overload · technology and society · social control · freedom · autonomy · adaptation · accelerating change · data capitalism · consumerism · dehumanization · wisdom vs intelligence · class inequality · mental health · prediction markets · hacktivism · systemic corruption · overmedication · mobility · tribalism

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Exit Strategy

Martha Wells · 2018 · The Murderbot Diaries

A rogue security unit races home to rescue a respected human ally while evading a powerful corporation.

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Premise labels: rogue SecUnit · rescue mission · corporate conspiracy · evidence retrieval · AI autonomy · protecting humans · return home

Themes labels: personhood · autonomy · identity · free will · AI rights · corporate greed · ethics · belonging · responsibility · freedom · friendship · emotional complexity · trust · humanity

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Hammered

Elizabeth Bear · 2005 · Jenny Casey

An aging cyborg veteran in a broken near-future is dragged into a web of drugs, secrets, and state power.

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Premise labels: cybernetic veteran · aging soldier · near-future dystopia · government conspiracy · street-level survival · drug crisis · AI involvement · space race · post-collapse world

Themes labels: aging · chronic pain · disability · trauma · PTSD · memory · identity · bodily autonomy · trust · loyalty · survival · state power · corporate power · moral ambiguity · humanity and machine · consciousness · political collapse · climate change

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Ghost in the Shell

Masamune Shirow · 2004 · 攻殻機動隊 The Ghost in the Shell

A cyborg special agent hunts cybercriminals in a near-future Japan where minds, bodies, and identity are under siege.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cybercrime · anti-terrorist unit · ghost hacking · AI identity · cyborg agent · mind control · near-future policing · political conspiracy

Themes labels: human vs machine · identity · consciousness · AI ethics · transhumanism · cybernetics · technology and society · political corruption · terrorism · memory and self · sentience · posthumanism · human rights · philosophy · spirituality · dehumanization

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Border Princes

Dan Abnett · 2007 · Torchwood

A Torchwood week unravels around a strange new team member, a looming alien threat, and a warning that may be too late.

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Premise labels: alien threat · team investigation · secret agency · mystery identity · false team member · world-ending warning · mind control · urban outbreak

Themes labels: identity · memory · deception · trust · team cohesion · alienation · daily work · hidden danger · apocalyptic threat · humanity · belonging · moral compromise · relationship strain · secrecy · real vs false belonging

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Grand Theft Astro

Scott Meyer · 2021

A notorious space thief joins a secret agency, then races through missions against a virus and a ticking clock.

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Premise labels: alleged thief · secret agency · deadly virus · stasis · countdown cure · space heist · clandestine operative · part-time spy · outer space caper

Themes labels: trust · betrayal · secrecy · survival · identity · independence · control · agency · morality among thieves · loyalty

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Mindwalker

Kate Dylan · 2022 · Mindwalker

A dying teen corporate mindwalker turns fugitive and infiltrates a rebel group to uncover a conspiracy before time runs out.

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Premise labels: mind control · corporate espionage · fugitive protagonist · tech countdown · undercover infiltration · rebellion · truth uncovering · race against time

Themes labels: consent · autonomy · mind control · corporate greed · abuse of power · propaganda · free will · morality of technology · ethical technology · systemic corruption · control · class inequality · poverty · humanity · truth vs loyalty · identity · surveillance · government control · child recruitment · sacrifice

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