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Themes labels used: humanity, civil rights, discrimination, prejudice, othering, free will, morality, technology ethics, transhumanism, identity, societal fear, class conflict, marginalization, government power, mob mentality, social commentary, belonging, enhancement

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Rosebud

Paul Cornell · 2016

Five digital crew members on a microscopic survey ship encounter a mysterious sphere that warps memory, time, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · free will · corporate power · state oppression · transphobia · queer oppression · capitalism · memory · reality · self-discovery · conditioning · choice · social control · social commentary · transhumanism · time · freedom · forbidden knowledge · moral awakening

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Crossover

Joel Shepherd · 2006 · Cassandra Kresnov

An escaped android super-soldier seeks a normal life in enemy territory, but politics, violence, and identity questions pull her back in.

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Themes labels: humanity · sentience · free will · personhood · civil rights · identity · belonging · morality · war and peace · politics · ideology · multiculturalism · technology and society · otherness · ethics of artificial life · citizenship

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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 2000 · The Complete Stories

A robot collection centered on sentience, freedom, and humanity, anchored by the title story of Andrew’s long quest for personhood.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · freedom · personhood · civil rights · consciousness · ethics · technology and society · transhumanism · artificial intelligence · gender roles · sexism · religion · environmental harm · mortality · sacrifice · class · prejudice · slavery

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Distance: 0.0770

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Friday

Robert A. Heinlein · 1997 · Friday

A bioengineered courier crosses a fractured near-future world while confronting prejudice, desire, and her own identity.

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Themes labels: personhood · belonging · identity · prejudice · gender roles · sexual freedom · individual freedom · social mores · government power · corporate power · racism · class prejudice · family structure · humanity · technology and society · cultural decline · civilization · privacy · choice · self-determination · liberty · religion

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

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Themes labels: sentience · free will · identity · rights · equality · discrimination · prejudice · humanity · morality · love vs law · civil rights allegory · fear of the other · technology and society · ethical AI · mortality

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson · 1987 · Sprawl

In a cyberpunk future, tangled lives, fake identities, and an AI-driven conspiracy pull several outsiders toward collision.

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Themes labels: identity · surveillance · technology and society · corporate power · humanity · addiction · class divide · memory · control · transhumanism · alienation · survival · free will · artificial intelligence · posthumanism

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Noor

Nnedi Okorafor · 2021

A disabled cyborg woman flees into the Nigerian desert and joins another fugitive, exposing a corporate-dominated future.

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Themes labels: disability · body autonomy · transhumanism · identity · belonging · acceptance · capitalism · corporate power · colonialism · class · race · humanity · technology · privacy · environmentalism · climate crisis · monopoly · choice · prejudice · community · self-definition · othering

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Humans, Bow Down

James Patterson, Emily Raymond · 2017

After robots rule the world, a rebellious teen fugitive may hold the key to human survival.

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Themes labels: humanity · artificial intelligence · oppression · freedom · rebellion · identity · moral awakening · prejudice · dehumanization · survival · social commentary · class divide · endangered humanity · ethics of creation

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 3

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2009 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective hunts a serial killer targeting the world’s greatest robots while anti-robot politics intensify.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · discrimination · prejudice · racism · civil rights · war trauma · dehumanization · coexistence · fear of technology · violence · compassion · humanity · obsolescence

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Bear Head

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2021 · Dogs of War

A Mars worker and a talking bear are pulled into a battle over bioform rights, mind control, and political power.

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Themes labels: free will · agency · civil rights · animal rights · personhood · slavery · oppression · prejudice · fascism · corporate overreach · economic exploitation · political corruption · class inequality · identity · loyalty · control · coercion · privacy · mind ownership · social regression · climate change · transhumanism · bioethics · autonomy · state power · resistance · propaganda · fearmongering · hierarchy · metagame · responsibility

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The Complete Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1995 · Robot

Asimov’s thematic robot anthology explores the Three Laws through human-robot puzzles, ethics, and future society.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · consciousness · identity · personhood · rights · labor · technology and society · fear of technology · human nature · prejudice · freedom · immortality · evolution

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The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus · 2018

In 1962 Baltimore, a mute janitor falls for a captured amphibious being and risks everything to free him.

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Themes labels: otherness · acceptance · love · freedom · captivity · communication · mutual understanding · dehumanization · prejudice · racism · sexism · homophobia · class inequality · compassion · monstrosity · humanity · allyship · agency · war trauma · science ethics

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