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Premise labels used: android tutor, forbidden love, coming of age, robot rights, artificial intelligence, human-machine relationship, isolated childhood, first love, identity crisis

Themes labels used: humanity, consciousness, sentience, free will, love, desire, identity, personhood, rights, autonomy, loss, grief, selfishness, moral ambiguity, social conformity, alienation, discrimination, othering, coming of age, emotional repression, compassion, redemption, choice, societal pressure

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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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Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

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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Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

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Premise labels: sentient android · forbidden romance · human robot conflict · android rights · free will · near-future AI

Themes labels: personhood · identity · free will · sentience · humanity · love and choice · technology fear · discrimination · acceptance · rights · self-discovery · morality of creation

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The Silver Metal Lover

Tanith Lee · 1999 · Silver Metal Lover

A sheltered teen in a post-disaster future falls for a lifelike robot musician and flees her privileged life.

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Premise labels: robot lover · first love · forbidden love · human-robot relationship · coming of age · identity quest · runaway romance · class divide · perfect lover · artificial intelligence

Themes labels: identity · humanity · love · first love · self-discovery · class inequality · technology and ethics · artificial intelligence · agency · autonomy · control · beauty standards · social alienation · consciousness · what it means to be human · loneliness · social prejudice · difference · loss · grief · transformation

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Made in Korea

Jeremy Holt · 2022 · Made in Korea

An adopted AI child in a near-future world confronts identity, family, and control as her strange origins unravel.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · android child · adoptive family · identity crisis · gender identity · coming of age · sentient AI · manufactured child · self-discovery · family system

Themes labels: identity · belonging · self-determination · nature vs nurture · gender identity · artificial intelligence ethics · adoption · family · humanity · social belonging · race · sexuality · corporate power · gun violence · peer pressure · acceptance · personhood · autonomy · coming of age · technology and ethics

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Themes labels: humanity · personhood · rights · prejudice · freedom · slavery · civil rights · identity · self-definition · mortality · immortality · love · friendship · loneliness · consciousness · self-awareness · individuality · acceptance · technology and society · philosophy · morality · language · creativity · bureaucracy · law · law and justice · human condition

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MILA 2.0

Debra Driza · 2013 · MILA 2.0

A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.

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Premise labels: android identity · hidden identity · on the run · manufactured self · humanity question · government pursuit · secret project · artificial intelligence · memory loss · identity crisis

Themes labels: identity · humanity · self-acceptance · free will · family loyalty · memory · authenticity · personhood · moral ambiguity · survival · technology and humanity · grief · betrayal · control · coming of age

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

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Premise labels: artificial friend · robot companion · near future · genetic enhancement · lonely child · humanity question · what is love · what makes a person · class inequality · distant narrator

Themes labels: love · loneliness · humanity · personhood · loss · hope · compassion · faith · grief · class · inequality · technology · ethics · sacrifice · identity · social isolation · parenting · mortality · belonging

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Echo Boy

Matt Haig · 2014

In a climate-altered near future, a grieving teen and an unusual android are pulled into a high-stakes mystery.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · androids · humanlike robots · human-machine boundary · near-future dystopia · climate-changed future · teen protagonist · sentient machine · protection mission · mystery investigation

Themes labels: humanity · artificial intelligence · grief · loss · love · trust · identity · consciousness · ethics of technology · human rights · power · civilization · humanism · moral choice · hope · fear of the future · what makes us human · otherness · emotion · loneliness

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Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression

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The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast

Tom King · 2016 · The Vision (2015)

A synthetic family’s fragile suburban normalcy collapses as love, destiny, and secrets pull Vision toward tragedy.

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Premise labels: android family · synthetic life · suburban family drama · identity quest · humanity search · domestic tragedy · marital fallout · family crisis

Themes labels: humanity · family · love · loss · identity · normalcy · otherness · free will · destiny · trauma · grief · revenge · sacrifice · morality · existentialism · belonging · artificial intelligence

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Evolved

N.R. Walker · 2018

In a near-future Australia, a lonely professor buys a custom android companion—then discovers he may be becoming sentient.

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Premise labels: android romance · human-android relationship · custom-built companion · sentient android · artificial intelligence

Themes labels: humanity · sentience · free will · consent · identity · love · companionship · loneliness · ethics · personhood · self-awareness · technology · belonging · otherness · rights · moral agency

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The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Premise labels: AI autonomy · human-AI relationship · robot rights · Mars colony · inventor protagonist · workplace ethics · sentient machine

Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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Distance: 0.1583

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