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Premise labels used: underdog athlete, rise to fame, futuristic sport, zero gravity combat, mixed martial arts, sports celebrity, genetic engineering, interplanetary tensions, criminal conspiracy, sports marketing, public persona, secret identity

Themes labels used: ethical genetics, sportsmanship, celebrity culture, fame and image, class inequality, racial bias, planetary prejudice, identity, selfhood, responsibility, ambition, sacrifice, truth and secrecy, choice, success costs, sport as politics, technology and society

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Lily James · 2025 · AstroSpace League

A champion racer and a rookie alien driver collide in a spacefaring rivalry that sparks into romance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: space racing · rivals to lovers · champion vs rookie · alien-human romance · competitive romance · underdog athlete · endangered species advocacy · fame and challenge · opposites attract

Themes labels: competition · identity · belonging · acceptance · prejudice · marginalization · representation · advocacy · self-worth · confidence · challenge · safety · trust · vulnerability · community · family pressure · love and hate

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Super Powereds: Year 3

Drew Hayes · 2015 · Super Powereds

Junior year turns brutal for a superhero-in-training team as old secrets surface, allies shift, and graduation narrows.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hero training · superhero academy · college years · coming of age · training trials · rising stakes · team under pressure · hidden conspiracy · enemy pressure

Themes labels: responsibility · heroism · loyalty · trust · identity · growth · maturity · power and duty · secrecy · social stigma · class hierarchy · choice · sacrifice · teamwork · truth and deception · good vs evil

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Change Agent

Daniel Suarez · 2017

In 2045, an Interpol agent hunting illegal gene editors is transformed into the criminal kingpin he’s chasing.

Why this is here

Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene editing · identity theft · body swap · fugitive on the run · illegal labs · black market biotech · biocrime · human enhancement

Themes labels: identity · nature vs nurture · bioethics · human enhancement · genetic inequality · technology and society · cruelty · corruption · human trafficking · moral limits of science · accountability · class divide

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Head On

John Scalzi · 2018 · Lock In

An FBI pair investigates a star athlete’s death during a violent future sport played through robot bodies.

Why this is here

Premise labels: near-future mystery · sports conspiracy · death during game · investigation duo · disabled body transfer · corporate intrigue · crime in sport

Themes labels: disability · identity · gender · inclusion · social inequality · health policy · corporate greed · sports commercialization · body and mind · human rights · technology and society · morality

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Broadcast

Liam Brown · 2019

A fame-hungry vlogger accepts a brain chip that streams his thoughts live, then discovers the cost of total exposure.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mind upload · thought broadcast · social media fame · viral celebrity · privacy invasion · surveillance tech · neurotechnology · reality show · online persona · fame bargain

Themes labels: privacy · surveillance · freedom of speech · free will · consent · identity · celebrity culture · social media addiction · data exploitation · control · power · morality · reality vs perception · technology and society · exposure · authenticity · self-obsession · ethics · advertising · personal autonomy

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Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

Maud Woolf · 2024

A celebrity clone sent to kill her predecessors starts to question her purpose in a gleaming near-future city.

Why this is here

Premise labels: clone assassination · celebrity clones · identity crisis · selfhood · free will · existential dilemma · publicity stunt · near-future technology

Themes labels: identity · individuality · self-determination · free will · humanity · morality · celebrity culture · fame · purpose · consciousness · self-acceptance · agency · nature versus nurture · loneliness · ethics of cloning

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The Body Scout

Lincoln Michel · 2021

A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.

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Premise labels: murder investigation · baseball world · body modification · corporate control · medical debt · biotech capitalism · future sports

Themes labels: capitalism · commodification of bodies · humanity · personhood · class inequality · medical debt · corporate greed · body autonomy · ethics of enhancement · identity · family · addiction · consumerism · sports and society · science and morality · environmental collapse · racism · xenophobia · disability · freedom · surveillance · labor exploitation

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The Games

Ted Kosmatka · 2012

In a near-future Olympic bloodsport, a geneticist faces an AI-designed monster unlike anything Earth has seen.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · Olympic bloodsport · designer monsters · battle to the death · AI-created creature · genetic competition · amoral future · state-sponsored biotechnology · science gone wrong

Themes labels: ethical science · playing god · biotechnology · artificial intelligence · sentience · survival · national pride · corporate power · morality of creation · humanity vs monstrosity · science and hubris · consequences of innovation · public spectacle · state violence · dehumanization

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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 4: Angel of Victory

Yukito Kishiro · 2004 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

A memory-loss cyborg enters lethal futuristic races and battles while fragments of her hidden past begin to surface.

Why this is here

Premise labels: cyborg protagonist · memory loss · identity mystery · past-life recovery · death sport · competitive combat · sports competition · futuristic racing · arena violence · reclaiming self

Themes labels: identity · memory · self-discovery · humanity · body and self · trauma · loss · ambition · honor · sacrifice · violence as spectacle · class division · control · freedom · existential searching · emotional growth

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Candace Kade · 2023 · The Hybrid

A hidden Natural enters elite university life in a gene-edited future, where exposure could ruin her family and her future.

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Premise labels: genetic caste system · hidden identity · natural vs enhanced · social status struggle · university life · hacker threat · AI game · coming-of-age · self-worth · belonging

Themes labels: identity · belonging · self-acceptance · self-discovery · social class · prejudice · discrimination · secrecy · pressure to conform · family loyalty · approval seeking · worldly success vs self-worth · freedom of choice · coming of age · ethics of genetic engineering

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The Girl Who Was Plugged In

James Tiptree Jr. · 1973

A suicidal teen gets a beautiful proxy body in a future where corporations sell products through fake celebrities.

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Premise labels: anti-capitalist future · advertising ban · product placement · celebrity branding · remote-body control · body swap · synthetic body · social influence

Themes labels: capitalism · consumerism · advertising · media manipulation · commodification · beauty standards · body image · identity · selfhood · gender politics · influence · freedom · surveillance · authenticity · technology and humanity · consciousness · illusion vs reality · love and control · exploitation

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Headspace

J.D. Edwin · 2021 · Headspace

A reluctant young woman is forced into a public alien game show where survival means saving Earth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien challenge · deadly competition · save the world · survival game · public spectacle · high stakes contest · forced contestant · mind-based challenge · global stakes · televised games

Themes labels: humanity · celebrity culture · media spectacle · entertainment ethics · loyalty · betrayal · survival · courage · hope · identity · ability and disability · heroism · representation · personal transformation · societal commentary · social media · public infatuation

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