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Isaac Asimov

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Premise labels used: robot identity, robot personhood, humanity question, rights and freedom, robot self-determination, intellectual awakening, sentient machine

Themes labels used: humanity, identity, freedom, personhood, civil rights, consciousness, ethics, technology and society, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, gender roles, sexism, religion, environmental harm, mortality, sacrifice, class, prejudice, slavery

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Themes labels: humanity · personhood · rights · prejudice · freedom · slavery · civil rights · identity · self-definition · mortality · immortality · love · friendship · loneliness · consciousness · self-awareness · individuality · acceptance · technology and society · philosophy · morality · language · creativity · bureaucracy · law · law and justice · human condition

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The Hierarchies

Ros Anderson · 2020

A sentient sex robot in a near-future hierarchy starts questioning her place, her programming, and what freedom costs.

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Premise labels: sentient robot · sex robot · women as property · class divide · power hierarchy · self-awareness · free will · gender politics · human exploitation · social control

Themes labels: personhood · consent · autonomy · free will · female oppression · gender roles · patriarchy · objectification · exploitation · humanity · consciousness · technology and power · identity · selfhood · body politics · class inequality · sexual violence · representation of women · labor and ownership · ethics of creation

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The Complete Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1995 · Robot

Asimov’s thematic robot anthology explores the Three Laws through human-robot puzzles, ethics, and future society.

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Premise labels: robot stories · Three Laws of Robotics · human-robot conflict · artificial intelligence

Themes labels: ethics · morality · consciousness · identity · personhood · rights · labor · technology and society · fear of technology · human nature · prejudice · freedom · immortality · evolution

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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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Premise labels: sentient robots · robot revolt · digital immortality · mind upload · consciousness transfer · posthuman identity · human-robot conflict · moon colony

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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The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Premise labels: AI autonomy · human-AI relationship · robot rights · Mars colony · inventor protagonist · workplace ethics · sentient machine

Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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R.U.R.

Karel Čapek · 2001

A factory creates humanlike laborers, but the experiment in efficiency sparks a revolt that tests what makes us human.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · artificial labor · manufactured people · labor replacement · creator and creation · humanity under threat

Themes labels: humanity · technology · labor · productivity · capitalism · progress · free will · soullessness · artificial intelligence · ethics of creation · dehumanization · slavery · class conflict · war · reproduction · religion · power · industrialization · modernity · human nature

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

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Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

Themes labels: sentience · free will · identity · rights · equality · discrimination · prejudice · humanity · morality · love vs law · civil rights allegory · fear of the other · technology and society · ethical AI · mortality

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

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Premise labels: sentient android · forbidden romance · human robot conflict · android rights · free will · near-future AI

Themes labels: personhood · identity · free will · sentience · humanity · love and choice · technology fear · discrimination · acceptance · rights · self-discovery · morality of creation

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Robogenesis

Daniel H. Wilson · 2014 · Robopocalypse

After a robot war, surviving humans and machines face a darker conflict as rival AIs reshape what life can be.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · AI conflict · postwar survival · human-machine boundary · hybrid beings · survivors regroup

Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · survival · war aftermath · technology ethics · free will · evolution · transhumanism · genocide · hope and despair · social commentary · nature of reality · community · creation and creator

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Nieves Delgado · 2017

A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · AI growth · AI integration · social adaptation · identity search · self-definition · difference and conformity · human machine contact · conscious machine · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · selfhood · consciousness · humanity · difference · conformity · social integration · labels · gender · sex and gender · trans identity · transfobia · feminism · discrimination · otherness · prejudice · ethics · personhood · anthropocentrism · free will · language and naming · body autonomy · purpose · rebellion · technology and society · philosophical inquiry

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Themes labels: autonomy · consent · control · identity · personhood · free will · humanity · womanhood · misogyny · objectification · abuse · power dynamics · freedom · self-discovery · self-knowledge · empathy · ownership · agency · intimacy · ethics · technology ethics · gender roles · patriarchy · slavery allegory · body autonomy · self-reliance · growth

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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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Premise labels: technology and humanity · AI enhancement · cyborg future · immortality · memory manipulation · autonomy vs control · relationship under augmentation · ethical dilemma

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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