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Themes labels used: class inequality, cultural preservation, social justice, gender roles, freedom vs control, privilege, poverty, education access, assimilation, outsider belonging, responsibility, community care, human rights, identity, returning roots

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Cover of Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

Escape Velocity

Victor Manibo · 2024

At a luxury space-station reunion, wealthy alumni chase Mars access while old murders, secrets, and revolt threaten everyone aboard.

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Themes labels: class inequality · capitalism · colonialism · privilege · meritocracy · climate change · wealth disparity · social mobility · discrimination · diaspora · immigration · racism · ableism · queer identity · gender identity · solidarity · complicity · violence · justice · moral ambiguity · resource depletion

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The Space Between Worlds

Micaiah Johnson · 2020 · The Space Between Worlds

A multiverse traverser from the margins uncovers a deadly secret that could upend her place in a class-riven world.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · belonging · privilege · classism · racism · oppression · capitalism · survival · trauma · nature vs nurture · choice and chance · power · citizenship · social inequality · human worth · climate change · social mobility

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Cover of Storm Glass by Jeff Wheeler

Storm Glass

Jeff Wheeler · 2018 · Harbinger

Two girls from opposite worlds navigate a skybound society, hidden magic, and a class system built to keep them apart.

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Themes labels: class inequality · poverty · social mobility · freedom · identity · belonging · education as power · oppression · trust · family · self-determination · justice · greed · corruption · leadership · responsibility · coming of age

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Cover of A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016 · Wayfarers

An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · sentience · belonging · freedom · autonomy · prejudice · class structure · gender · equality · humanity · purpose · survival · motherhood · family · consciousness · cultural difference · ethics · self-determination · empathy · social justice

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Cover of Mexicoland by Jaime Alfonso Sandoval

Mexicoland

Jaime Alfonso Sandoval · 2018

In a future Mexico split by collapse and control, a teen orphan uncovers the truth behind a glittering corporate paradise.

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Themes labels: class inequality · racism · classism · appropriation · exploitation · corruption · authoritarianism · social criticism · capitalism · privilege · human rights · freedom · surveillance · censorship · propaganda · violence · social control · identity · national identity · hope · resistance · truth and deception · education control · social stratification

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The Branded

Jo Riccioni · 2024 · The Branded Season

In a virus-divided world, a sheltered twin must flee her citadel and trust a mysterious outsider to save her sister.

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Themes labels: gender inequality · class inequality · prejudice · racism · sexism · classism · oppression · bodily autonomy · fertility · eugenics · identity · freedom · prophecy · trust · corruption · segregation · agency · indoctrination · survival · family loyalty

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Cover of China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

China Mountain Zhang

Maureen F. McHugh · 1992

In a China-dominated future, a young gay man with a hidden mixed heritage tries to build a life across shifting worlds.

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Themes labels: identity · assimilation · class stratification · homophobia · racism · ethnicity · social control · bureaucracy · survival · self-acceptance · alienation · gendered pressure · economic inequality · power imbalance · social mobility · everyday life · coming of age · marginalization · hope · human resilience · history and power · capitalism vs socialism

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Ripples in Time

Julie McElwain · 2023 · Kendra Donovan

A time-displaced FBI agent investigates a nobleman’s murder while deciding whether to stay in Regency England.

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Themes labels: women's rights · gender inequality · social restriction · class privilege · moral reform · historical injustice · identity · belonging · homecoming · love versus duty · choice · agency · grief · trauma · progress versus tradition · mental health treatment · justice · corruption · greed

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Cover of An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · 2017

On a dying generation ship, an outcast healer decodes her mother’s clues and confronts an entire oppressive order.

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Themes labels: slavery · racism · class inequality · gender identity · sexuality · collective trauma · systemic oppression · resistance · religion and control · colorism · institutional violence · survival · human dignity · privilege · power corruption · reproductive autonomy · mental illness · disability

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Cover of Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler

Unexpected Stories

Octavia E. Butler · 2014

Two rediscovered Octavia E. Butler stories explore alien hierarchy and telepathic power in stark, thought-provoking worlds.

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Themes labels: hierarchy · power · race · class · gender · oppression · consent · communication · relationships · loneliness · survival · social conditioning · violence · intolerance · mentorship · responsibility · change · colorism · racism · wealth disparity · assimilation versus separatism

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Gutter Child

Jael Richardson · 2021

In a divided dystopian society, a girl from the oppressed Gutter must navigate debt, identity, and freedom.

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Themes labels: colonialism · systemic racism · institutional racism · class inequality · social inequality · privilege · oppression · freedom · identity · selfhood · belonging · generational trauma · poverty · slavery · indebtedness · resilience · resistance · hope · injustice · equity

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Cover of Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2017 · The Hainish Cycle

Five linked Hainish stories follow lives on two planets reshaped by slavery, revolution, and hard-won freedom.

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Themes labels: slavery · freedom · liberation · forgiveness · revolution · war aftermath · gender inequality · race · class · imperialism · oppression · work · education · history · identity · human dignity · social change · cultural relativism · peace · trauma · justice · reconciliation · sexuality · parenthood · human resilience

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