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Premise labels used: android family, synthetic life, suburban family drama, identity quest, humanity search, domestic tragedy, marital fallout, family crisis

Themes labels used: humanity, family, love, loss, identity, normalcy, otherness, free will, destiny, trauma, grief, revenge, sacrifice, morality, existentialism, belonging, artificial intelligence

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The Vision

Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta · 2018 · The Vision (2015)

An android builds a suburban family and learns that passing as normal can become a tragic, deadly experiment.

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Premise labels: synthetic family · android identity · normal life · suburban family · humanity quest · belonging quest · family drama · social integration · secret domesticity · ordinary life

Themes labels: humanity · identity · belonging · family · normalcy · otherness · acceptance · prejudice · free will · grief · sacrifice · loneliness · discrimination · purpose · morality · truth and lies · parenthood · inheritance · selfhood · what it means to be human

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The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man

Tom King · 2016 · The Vision (2015)

An android Avenger builds a family and moves to the suburbs, where normal life curdles into dread.

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Premise labels: synthetic family · android family · wanting to be human · nuclear family · fit in · suburban life · normalcy · outsider in suburbia · humanity test · domestic experiment

Themes labels: humanity · otherness · normalcy · belonging · family · prejudice · acceptance · identity · alienation · morality · community fear · good intentions

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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · 2018 · LIFEL1K3

A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.

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Premise labels: robot rebellion · android outlaw · human-like AI · mutant powers · on the run · identity mystery · found family · protective quest · corporate control · gladiator combat

Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · humanity · artificial intelligence · slavery · rebellion · choice · morality · power and control · personhood · family · survival · grief · trauma · ethics of creation · freedom · trust

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 2008 · Blade Runner

A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · post-apocalyptic survival · humanity test · empathy test · animal scarcity · fugitive androids · bounty hunter · false humanity · artificial life

Themes labels: empathy · humanity · identity · real vs artificial · morality · religion · consumer status · alienation · consciousness · death · suffering · social value · collective experience · survival

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

Philip K. Dick · 2011 · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bounty hunter in a radioactive near-future Earth tracks rogue androids while the meaning of humanity unravels.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · empathy test · post-war wasteland · artificial life · status-symbol animals · fugitive androids · human-machine boundary

Themes labels: empathy · humanity · identity · artificial versus real · morality · death · status · alienation · religion · ecological collapse · life value · consumer desire · creation and creator

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The Perfect Wife

J.P. Delaney · 2019

A grieving tech CEO recreates his missing wife as an AI companion, but her memories uncover dangerous truths.

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Premise labels: missing spouse · AI replica · robot wife · memory loss · marital deception · tech company · artificial intelligence · identity mystery · perfect family · cobot

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · identity · humanity · memory · consent · data ownership · ethics · morality · free will · marriage · parenthood · autism · sexism · misogyny · technology and humanity · perfection · grief · abuse · control · consciousness

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MILA 2.0

Debra Driza · 2013 · MILA 2.0

A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.

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Premise labels: android identity · hidden identity · on the run · manufactured self · humanity question · government pursuit · secret project · artificial intelligence · memory loss · identity crisis

Themes labels: identity · humanity · self-acceptance · free will · family loyalty · memory · authenticity · personhood · moral ambiguity · survival · technology and humanity · grief · betrayal · control · coming of age

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Tin

Pádraig Kenny · 2018

A boy raised among robot friends uncovers a dangerous secret and must help rescue them in a steampunk alternate Britain.

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Premise labels: identity quest · robot child · found family · rescue mission · what is human · secret origin · illegal creation

Themes labels: humanity · identity · soul · personhood · friendship · family · acceptance · belonging · grief · memory · loss · mourning · love · truth · war · ethics of creation · playing God · difference · discrimination · compassion · morality of genius · good vs evil

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In the Lives of Puppets

T.J. Klune · 2023

A hidden robot-and-human family must cross a strange world to rescue their father, confronting love, identity, and choice.

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Premise labels: found family · quest · rescue mission · Pinocchio retelling · humanity question · robot family · chosen family · love with strings attached

Themes labels: humanity · free will · identity · family · love · friendship · forgiveness · acceptance · self-discovery · choice · grief · loyalty · purpose · what it means to be human · what makes a person

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer · 2026

An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.

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Premise labels: robot quest · stolen limb · post-apocalyptic recovery · found family · AI autonomy · road trip · conspiracy · past reckoning · survival

Themes labels: hope · resilience · healing · identity · personhood · autonomy · free will · bodily autonomy · trauma · grief · loss · memory · purpose · forgiveness · connection · community · humane technology · humanity · choice · change · survival · responsibility · environmental collapse · war and peace

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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

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Premise labels: android tutor · forbidden love · coming of age · robot rights · artificial intelligence · human-machine relationship · isolated childhood · first love · identity crisis

Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · sentience · free will · love · desire · identity · personhood · rights · autonomy · loss · grief · selfishness · moral ambiguity · social conformity · alienation · discrimination · othering · coming of age · emotional repression · compassion · redemption · choice · societal pressure

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The Pretender

K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate · 1998 · Animorphs

A hawk-bodied teen faces a family trap, a rescue mission, and a shattering truth about who he really is.

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Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden parentage · family secret · false relative · territorial conflict · rescue mission · morphing dilemma · normal life temptation · found family

Themes labels: identity · belonging · humanity · otherness · family · war morality · sacrifice · instinct vs emotion · self-acceptance · survival · trauma · prejudice · love vs duty · choice · loyalty

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