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Themes labels used: climate change, corporate corruption, environmental destruction, humanity, survival, science and ethics, biotechnology, genetic manipulation, feminism, religion, class inequality, consumerism, mortality, apocalypse, hope, human nature, morality, ecocriticism, animal studies, immortality

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Pump Six and Other Stories

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2008 · The Windup Universe

A bleak short-story collection of near-future worlds shaped by climate collapse, biotech, and resource scarcity.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental destruction · resource scarcity · water rights · food supply · population control · immortality · bioethics · humanity · morality · greed · class inequality · corporate power · technology and society · ecological collapse · compassion · survival · dehumanization · knowledge decline · social criticism

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood · 2009 · MaddAddam

Two women survive a man-made apocalypse while moving through a world of eco-faith, corporations, and engineered life.

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Themes labels: environmental collapse · climate change · consumerism · corporate power · biotechnology · genetic engineering · animal rights · survival · faith and science · religion and ecology · gender roles · class division · human greed · civilizational decline · resource scarcity · social criticism

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.

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Themes labels: survival · hope · loss · storytelling · mythmaking · evolution · adaptation · ethics · religion · technology · corporate power · environmental collapse · capitalism · memory · community · love · language · humanity · morality · resilience · creation · gender roles · ecology · consumerism · class division · unintended consequences

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Saturation Point

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Terrible Worlds: Transformations

A scientist returns to a lethal equatorial jungle zone on a rescue mission, and discovers corporate secrets and ecological horrors.

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Themes labels: climate change · human hubris · corporate greed · environmental collapse · adaptation · survival · ecology · biology · species divergence · ethics of exploitation · human insignificance · nature finds a way · bioethics · end-stage capitalism · pandemic isolation

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El peso del corazón

Rosa Montero · 2015 · Bruna Husky

A short-lived replicant detective is pulled into a dangerous future conspiracy that tests her heart, loyalty, and survival.

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Themes labels: mortality · time · identity · memory · humanity · love · survival · corruption · social inequality · authoritarianism · religion · ecology · climate change · nuclear danger · technology · consciousness · freedom · individuality · ethics · family

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2312

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2012

A future-history space epic follows a Mercurian world-maker into a solar-system conspiracy amid terraforming and social upheaval.

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Themes labels: climate change · gender fluidity · identity · human nature · politics · economics · environmental collapse · colonization · technology and society · post-scarcity · longevity · transhumanism · ethics of AI · ecology · power · community · survival

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Blue Skies

T. Coraghessan Boyle · 2023

A family’s uneven attempts to live normally amid accelerating climate collapse trigger darkly comic, escalating fallout.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · denial · adaptation · human selfishness · consumerism · responsibility · survival · nature vs human · ecosystems · species loss · materialism · moral complacency · personal responsibility · family duty · social irresponsibility · unintended consequences · new normal · grief · hubris

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The Garden of Rama

Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee · 1991 · Rama

Stranded humans aboard an alien vessel face survival, family, and a brutal social experiment as Rama carries them deeper into the unknown.

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Themes labels: human nature · survival · reproduction · ethics · morality · social collapse · authority · observation · environmental destruction · greed · prejudice · gender roles · civilization · humanity vs other species · faith vs pragmatism

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Galápagos

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1999

A ghost narrator recounts how one doomed 1986 cruise helped shape humanity’s evolutionary future.

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Themes labels: evolution · natural selection · intelligence · human nature · survival · humanism · misanthropy · war · greed · consumerism · environmental collapse · ecology · fate · free will · adaptation · reproduction · species extinction · technology · social satire · religion vs science · meaning of humanity · self-destruction

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The Forest on the Edge of Time

Jasmin Kirkbride · 2026

Two amnesiac time travelers in Ancient Athens and a dying future must communicate in dreams to save humanity.

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Themes labels: climate change · ecological collapse · memory · identity · family · duty · responsibility · hope · collective action · butterfly effect · history changing the future · humanity survival · philosophy · politics · citizenship · classism · slavery · misogyny · homophobia · tyranny · religious thought · grief · faith · small actions · environmental urgency · human nature · choice and consequence · past and future · civilizational collapse

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Firewalkers

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2020 · Terrible Worlds: Revolutions

In a climate-ravaged future, teen repair crews risk the desert to keep a rich enclave powered—and uncover a dangerous secret.

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Themes labels: climate change · social inequality · capitalism · resource scarcity · survival · moral choice · environmental collapse · technology and power · AI ethics · class struggle · exploitation · collective responsibility · hope · revenge · betrayal

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Blood Circus

Camila Victoire · 2023 · The Blood Circus

In a post-climate-collapse world, a teen girl is taken into a deadly survival competition and learns her enemies may not be what they seem.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental destruction · ecological preservation · propaganda · prejudice · xenophobia · othering · identity · self-acceptance · human nature · ethics · survival · gender roles · feminism · meat consumption · capitalism · acceptance

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