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Themes labels used: identity, memory, humanity, transhumanism, art and legacy, mortality, ethics of intervention, power and responsibility, time and lifespan, cosmic dread, empathy, evolution, civilizational change

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Life Ever After

Carla Grauls · 2019

In a future of AI upgrades and long life, two lovers question how much of themselves they can keep intact.

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Themes labels: transhumanism · identity · free will · autonomy · humanity · technology ethics · longevity · immortality · memory · privacy · connection · alienation · progress · cost of progress · mind-body integration · love and sacrifice · selfhood · societal control · media and propaganda · environmental loss

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 2020

A linked speculative-fiction collection on memory, identity, technology, and family, spanning history, futures, and the Singularity.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · heritage · culture clash · colonialism · empathy · humanity · embodiment · mortality · digital immortality · grief · truth and reality · technology ethics · freedom · resistance · art · social media · gun violence · climate change · refugees · war · moral ambiguity · transhumanism

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Heechee Rendezvous

Frederik Pohl · 1985 · Heechee Saga

A human mind living in machine form races to meet the elusive Heechee as a greater alien threat emerges.

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Themes labels: identity · mortality · immortality · consciousness · memory · ownership · humanity · moral responsibility · guilt · love · loss · fear of aging · first contact · technology ethics · knowledge limits · civilizational threat · survival

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Software

Rudy Rucker · 1982 · Ware

An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · selfhood · immortality · free will · evolution · personhood · transhumanism · what makes a soul · humanity · memory · body versus mind · technology and morality · individuality versus collectivism

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BRZRKR, Volume 2

Keanu Reeves · 2022 · BRZRKR

An immortal warrior’s memories are forced open by government experiments, pushing him closer to his origins and freedom.

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Themes labels: immortality · mortality · identity · memory · loneliness · loss · violence · free will · exploration of origins · humanity · power and exploitation · purpose · consciousness · dependency · dehumanization

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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Neal Stephenson · 2019

A billionaire’s brain is scanned after death, igniting a digital afterlife, a mythic power struggle, and near-future upheaval.

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Themes labels: mortality · consciousness · identity · souls · technology and ethics · transhumanism · afterlife · religious symbolism · mythmaking · free will · reality and simulation · truth and misinformation · social polarization · power and hierarchy · creation and responsibility · human nature · digital immortality · post-truth

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For We Are Many

Dennis E. Taylor · 2017 · Bobiverse

A replicated AI races to save humanity, manage clone selves, and confront hostile aliens across a widening galaxy.

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Themes labels: consciousness · immortality · humanity · colonialism · responsibility · ethics of intervention · survival · identity drift · selfhood · moral compromise · love and loss · technological progress

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Mountain of Black Glass

Tad Williams · 1999 · Otherland

A group trapped in a vast VR network races through mythic simulations to stop a conspiracy and uncover the system’s core secret.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · agency · immortality · power · control · reality vs illusion · humanity · memory · technology ethics · violence · class disparity · moral responsibility · fate · myth and history

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Holy Fire

Bruce Sterling · 2001

In a post-plague gerontocracy, a risk-averse elder gets rejuvenated and rediscovers youth, art, and freedom.

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Themes labels: aging · life extension · mortality · identity · authenticity · art · creativity · humanity · posthumanity · freedom · security · risk · safety · power · social control · inequality · class stratification · generational conflict · healthcare ethics · medical ethics · aesthetic philosophy · self-discovery · rebellion · societal stagnation · consequences of longevity · memory · body-mind relation

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Edges

Linda Nagata · 2019 · Inverted Frontier

A far-future crew follows a captured alien ship back through lost human space to uncover what happened to civilization.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · personhood · survival · humanity · memory · continuity of self · knowledge-seeking · civilizational collapse · trust · morality · transhumanism · posthuman ethics · exploration · isolation

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