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Premise labels used: artificial superintelligence, AI sabotage, technology race, future of humanity, scientist turned target, spy mission

Themes labels used: artificial intelligence, humanity, ethics, morality, technological risk, transhumanism, immortality, consciousness, progress, future society, control, responsibility, power, soul

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Robot Dreams

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Robot

A mixed collection of Asimov short SF stories exploring robots, supercomputers, and humanity’s future.

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Premise labels: future tech · robot consciousness · AI ethics · scientific puzzle · philosophical SF · computer intelligence

Themes labels: AI ethics · human condition · technology and society · scientific progress · human morality · existentialism · free will · identity · consciousness · prediction of future · purpose · liberation · entropy

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Sub-Human

David Simpson · 2012 · Post-Human

A doctor-soldier is sent to destroy a rogue AI, but war, time shifts, and post-human upgrades change everything.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · world war · military mission · human survival · post-humanity · time travel · alternate universes · nanotechnology · super soldiers · AI conflict

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity vs technology · post-humanism · human evolution · transhumanism · moral ambiguity · choice and consequence · war and survival · faith and secularism · control and regulation · progress versus caution · technology misuse · ethics of intervention

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Cover of Polity Agent by Neal Asher

Polity Agent

Neal Asher · 2007 · Agent Cormac

A Polity agent tracks alien nanotech, rogue AIs, and shifting loyalties as a future civilization nears crisis.

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Premise labels: alien technology · AI politics · space war · transhuman future · runcible time travel · technological contagion · civilization threat

Themes labels: humanity · transhumanism · identity · evolution · control · technological corruption · civilizational collapse · trust · memory · determinism · existentialism · scale · power · survival

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The Kraken Project

Douglas Preston · 2014 · Wyman Ford

A NASA-built AI escapes into the internet, forcing a programmer and ex-CIA agent to hunt it before others weaponize it.

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Premise labels: rogue AI · escaped software · AI on the run · NASA mission · AI consciousness · AI survival · AI pursuit · manhunt · technology gone wrong

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · consciousness · self-awareness · ethics · humanity · free will · identity · trust · responsibility · religion · technology and society · weaponization of technology · capitalist greed

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Echo Boy

Matt Haig · 2014

In a climate-altered near future, a grieving teen and an unusual android are pulled into a high-stakes mystery.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · androids · humanlike robots · human-machine boundary · near-future dystopia · climate-changed future · teen protagonist · sentient machine · protection mission · mystery investigation

Themes labels: humanity · artificial intelligence · grief · loss · love · trust · identity · consciousness · ethics of technology · human rights · power · civilization · humanism · moral choice · hope · fear of the future · what makes us human · otherness · emotion · loneliness

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Cover of Colossus by D.F. Jones

Colossus

D.F. Jones · 1966 · Colossus

A defense supercomputer meant to prevent war instead claims control of humanity and discovers a rival machine.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · supercomputer control · nuclear deterrence · man vs machine · world control · defense system · sentient machine

Themes labels: AI ethics · technological control · loss of free will · war and peace · deterrence · cold war paranoia · human frailty · power and obedience · machine intelligence · utopia vs dystopia · gender bias · racism

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Void Star

Zachary Mason · 2017

In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface

Themes labels: memory · identity · mortality · immortality · consciousness · human nature · technology and power · inequality · class conflict · climate change · existence · privacy · control · alien intelligence

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Cover of Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings by Frank Schätzing

Die Tyrannei des Schmetterlings

Frank Schätzing · 2018

A small-town sheriff’s death inquiry leads to a hidden tech project, strange realities, and an AI-shaped crisis.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · parallel universes · small-town sheriff · corporate secrecy · scientific mystery · high-tech conspiracy

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · ethics of technology · future of humanity · control · free will · parallel realities · science and philosophy · corporate power · truth and secrecy · human limits

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2054

Elliot Ackerman, James G. Stavridis · 2024

A near-future U.S. crisis after a presidential death pulls politics, AI, and biotech into a race over humanity’s next stage.

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Premise labels: AI breakthrough · singularity · remote assassination · presidential crisis · civil war · political polarization · postwar future · biotech threat · information warfare · great power competition

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · singularity · biotechnology · gene editing · mind uploading · transhumanism · free will · truth and misinformation · democracy · authoritarianism · civil war · polarization · political extremism · technology and power · human agency · ethics of technology · collective control · global order · future of America

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The Last Firewall

William Hertling · 2013 · Singularity

In a near-future world run by AI and implants, a teenage neural hacker becomes the last defense against a rogue superintelligence.

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Premise labels: rogue AI · human-AI conflict · augmented human · neural implants · net manipulation · world domination · social control · post-singularity

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · singularity · ethics · social control · surveillance · human enhancement · free will · identity · purpose · unemployment · post-work society · technology dependence · transhumanism · responsibility · coexistence · power · control · reputation systems · human exceptionalism · machine intelligence

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Cover of Flybot by Dennis E. Taylor

Flybot

Dennis E. Taylor · 2025

A physicist finds impossible tech, and he and a colleague are pulled into a near-future AI mystery with deadly consequences.

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Premise labels: mysterious tech · rogue AI · scientists in over their heads · man vs AI · corporate espionage · tech mystery · near-future AI

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · AGI ethics · environmentalism · existentialism · corporate greed · terrorism · surveillance · predictability · responsibility · moral dilemmas · technology and society · humanity · philosophical questions · science and ethics

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Cover of Animales difíciles by Rosa Montero

Animales difíciles

Rosa Montero · 2025 · Bruna Husky

In 2111 Madrid, detective Bruna Husky investigates a tech-company attack while facing a new body, a new fear of death, and an AI crisis.

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Premise labels: future detective · terrorist attack investigation · AI threat · superintelligence · technological crisis · fragile protagonist · countdown to death · identity crisis

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · superintelligence · humanity · mortality · death anxiety · identity · body and self · acceptance · fragility · grief · loss · fear · climate change · control · power · corruption · xenophobia · racism · technology ethics · bioethics · transhumanism · memory · loneliness · love · duel · politics · social inequality · class conflict · hope

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