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Themes labels used: memory, identity, privacy, ethics of research, human testing, discrimination, prejudice, otherness, social control, agency, trauma, abuse, PTSD, anxiety, feminism, religion vs science, racism, caste system, fear of forgetting

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The Fortunate Fall

Cameron Reed, Raphael Carter · 1996

A telepresence journalist investigating a covered-up massacre uncovers buried memories, political secrets, and forbidden love.

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Themes labels: memory · identity · privacy · surveillance · human nature · love · betrayal · morality · consciousness · selfhood · freedom · truth · propaganda · state power · censorship · technology and humanity · change · survival · survivor guilt · human rights · homophobia · gender · queer oppression · media ethics · collective memory · history and forgetting · genocide · politics · religion · philosophy

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The Winter Soldier: Cold Front

Mackenzi Lee · 2023 · Marvel Press Novels

Two timelines trace Bucky Barnes’s rise from teen recruit to brainwashed Winter Soldier as a hidden mystery binds them.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · trauma · brainwashing · dehumanization · free will · obedience · resistance · war · patriotism · sacrifice · loss · captivity · resilience · selfhood · grief

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Distance: 0.1387

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The Treatment

Suzanne Young · 2014 · The Program

A memory-wiped teen couple races to outrun a deadly system, recover the past, and decide who to trust.

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Themes labels: memory · identity · depression · suicide · mental health · free will · control · trust · truth and lies · choice · trauma · selfhood · love versus survival · institutional abuse · government power · moral ambiguity · stigma

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Distance: 0.1388

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Tell Me an Ending

Jo Harkin · 2022

A memory-erasure company’s fallout forces strangers to decide whether forgotten pain is better left buried or restored.

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Themes labels: memory and identity · trauma · grief · secrets · morality · ethics of technology · selfhood · forgiveness · healing · privacy · truth and concealment · free will · suffering · corporate power · human nature

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Dwellers

Eliza Victoria · 2022

Two cousins who can inhabit other bodies must unravel a basement death after their new lives trap them in a dangerous house.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · trauma · body autonomy · escape · guilt · consequence · morality · family secrets · complicity · social commentary · class · power · belonging · selfhood · displacement · accountability · intergenerational trauma · mental health · sexual violence · disability · fatphobia · oppression

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Compañeros de caza

Rafael de la Rosa · 2018

A scientist studying a resurrected dinosaur in a lab begins to form an unexpected bond that tests ethics, identity, and desire.

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Themes labels: consent · empathy · prejudice · fear of the unknown · acceptance · identity · humanity · what is love · communication · justice · oppression · ethics of research · scientific validity · difference

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Slade

Laurann Dohner · 2011 · New Species

A doctor and a genetically engineered enforcer rekindle a dangerous attraction while fleeing hatred, danger, and their own mistrust.

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Themes labels: prejudice · identity · trust · miscommunication · protection · freedom · captivity · survival · love vs safety · belonging · bodily autonomy · scientific abuse · trauma recovery · human cruelty

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The Psychology of Time Travel

Kate Mascarenhas · 2019

Four women invent time travel, then a future murder and a buried past force their world to confront its rules.

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Themes labels: mental health · psychology · mortality · death · fate · determinism · free will · power · control · accountability · identity · memory · grief · trauma · bullying · racism · sexism · workplace harassment · justice · ethics · empathy · social consequences · career politics

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The Similars

Rebecca Hanover · 2019 · The Similars

At an elite boarding school, a grieving teen confronts a clone of her dead best friend and a web of secrets.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · clone rights · grief · loss · ethics · scientific advancement · prejudice · xenophobia · discrimination · belonging · individuality · nature vs nurture · privacy · consent · moral ambiguity · fear of difference · political overtones

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PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 2

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

A robot detective and a boy robot unravel a string of murders targeting the world's strongest artificial beings.

Why this is here

Themes labels: humanity · memory · identity · war trauma · empathy · morality · political intrigue · grief · discrimination · rights and personhood · falsified memory · human-machine boundary · violence and responsibility · forgetting

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エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1]

Lynn Okamoto, 岡本倫 · 2002 · Elfen Lied

An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.

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Themes labels: identity · prejudice · discrimination · abuse · trauma · alienation · revenge · human cruelty · loneliness · nature vs nurture · dehumanization · survival · acceptance · jealousy · self-worth

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The World Wasn't Ready for You

Justin C. Key · 2023

A debut short-story collection fusing horror, sci-fi, and fantasy to confront race, class, prejudice, and identity.

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Themes labels: race · class · prejudice · love · exclusion · loneliness · identity · consent · ethics · systemic racism · oppression · dehumanization · empathy · humanity · grief · motherhood · fatherhood · technology and ethics · body autonomy · social justice · alienation · trauma · mental health · neurodiversity · immigration · Xenophobia · panic · survival

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