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Themes labels used: ethics of intelligence, responsibility, humanity's future, trust, morality, hubris, self-destruction, human progress, scientific ethics, philosophical inquiry, religious questions, power and control, collective action, end-of-the-world stakes

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Cover of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2003

A man whose dreams rewrite reality is used by an ambitious psychiatrist to try remaking the world.

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Themes labels: ethics of power · free will · responsibility · utilitarianism · consequences · utopia and dystopia · human fallibility · reality and perception · moral ambiguity · social engineering · environmental destruction · overpopulation · war and peace · racism · eugenics · humanity and nature · balance · inner peace · action vs passivity · good intentions · authority and hubris

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Flybot

Dennis E. Taylor · 2025

A physicist finds impossible tech, and he and a colleague are pulled into a near-future AI mystery with deadly consequences.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · AGI ethics · environmentalism · existentialism · corporate greed · terrorism · surveillance · predictability · responsibility · moral dilemmas · technology and society · humanity · philosophical questions · science and ethics

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Cover of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Robot

A framed set of robot stories tracks humanity’s changing relationship with AI under Asimov’s Three Laws.

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Themes labels: ethics · AI ethics · morality · humanity · identity · consciousness · free will · control · dependency · technology and society · faith and reason · logic · self-preservation · trust · power · progress · philosophical questions

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The Future

Naomi Alderman · 2023

In a near-future collapse, survivalists and insiders race tech billionaires and hidden systems to change who gets through the end.

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Themes labels: wealth inequality · corporate power · tech ethics · climate crisis · apocalypse · survival · community · trust · privacy · surveillance · social polarization · AI and consciousness · truth and lies · collective action · human responsibility · capitalism critique · moral sacrifice · hope and optimism · power transfer · religion and prophecy · biblical allegory · end times · control

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Invasive

Chuck Wendig · 2016 · Zer0es

An FBI futurist investigates a bizarre insect-linked killing and uncovers a genetically engineered threat on a remote island.

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Themes labels: ethics of science · technology and power · human control · survival · apocalypse anxiety · greed · bioethics · ecological catastrophe · conspiracy · future anxiety · man vs nature · good and evil · means and ends

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MindWar

Douglas E. Richards · 2016 · Nick Hall

A near-future thriller about brain-implant mind reading, betrayal, and a race to stop a catastrophic terror plot.

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Themes labels: ethics of mind reading · privacy · security · human evolution · technology and society · misuse of power · terrorism · trust and betrayal · free will · what-if speculation · science vs morality · fear of the future

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The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers

Kieron Gillen · 2025 · The Power Fantasy

Six near-omnipotent people must keep their uneasy balance or risk ending the world in an alternate-history Cold War.

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Themes labels: ethics of power · morality of superpowers · political power · government · leadership · mutually assured destruction · nuclear fear · balancing act · responsibility · collective survival · human nature · peacekeeping · world domination · philosophical debate · game theory · deterrence

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Cover of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1999

A writer chasing the story of Hiroshima uncovers a deadly invention and a fake religion on a Caribbean island.

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Themes labels: science and ethics · religion and truth · human stupidity · responsibility · power and control · moral relativism · apocalypse · war and destruction · lies and belief · free will · determinism · meaninglessness · social critique · human nature · hope and despair

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Dogs of War

Jonathan Maberry · 2017 · Joe Ledger

A battered counterterrorism team races to stop a terrorist-triggered robot-and-AI apocalypse before it spreads worldwide.

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Themes labels: technological ethics · artificial intelligence · human vs machine · consequences · recovery · trauma · PTSD · trust · survival · global catastrophe · moral responsibility · power and control · biotechnology · dehumanization

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Sub-Human

David Simpson · 2012 · Post-Human

A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity vs technology · post-humanism · human evolution · transhumanism · moral ambiguity · choice and consequence · war and survival · faith and secularism · control and regulation · progress versus caution · technology misuse · ethics of intervention

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Green City Wars

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026

A raccoon private eye hunts a missing mouse in a hidden animal underworld beneath a human green-city utopia.

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Themes labels: class inequality · exploitation · systemic power · servitude · autonomy · self-determination · human supremacy · labor politics · social commentary · ethics of science · bioethics · intelligence as currency · survival · identity · community · animal nature · corporate control · utopia costs · philosophical questions · scientific responsibility

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