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Themes labels used: humanity, identity, memory, trauma, autonomy, ownership, personhood, self-determination, free will, ethics, power, classism, capitalism, patriarchy, belonging, loss, self-possession, othering, women's autonomy, memory and grief

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Slow Gods

Claire North · 2025

An immortal pilot from a brutal star society becomes central to a galaxy-wide response to an impending supernova.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · mortality · immortality · memory · belonging · love · grief · loss · meaning of life · ethics · morality · agency · free will · power · control · oppression · capitalism critique · climate denial · war · sacrifice · community · cultural survival · history · preservation · perception · belief · othering · gender · language · home · diaspora

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Revenant Gun

Yoon Ha Lee · 2018 · The Machineries of Empire

An amnesiac young general is used in a fractured empire’s last power struggle, while rivals and allies race to stop a tyrant.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · consent · bodily autonomy · abuse · trauma · war · power · oppression · rebellion · morality · humanity · personhood · immortality · responsibility · social change · class hierarchy · choice · survival

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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 3: Killing Angel

Yukito Kishiro · 2004 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

After a devastating loss, a cyborg heroine throws herself into a brutal futuristic sport while her guardian searches for her.

Why this is here

Themes labels: grief · identity · memory · humanity · body autonomy · selfhood · loss · independence · violence · freedom · class divide · social inequality · technology and personhood · fate · escape

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Luminous

Silvia Park · 2025

In near-future reunified Korea, estranged siblings and a found robot child collide amid a murder case and family secrets.

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Themes labels: humanity · personhood · identity · memory · grief · loss · family estrangement · connection · ethics · agency · autonomy · technology and humanity · robot rights · body and identity · gender · queerness · disability · chronic illness · war trauma · moral ambiguity · capitalism · consumerism · social inequality · class hierarchy · exploitation · violence · love · authenticity · memory and selfhood · creation and control · religion · salvation · posthumanism

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Leech

Hiron Ennes · 2022

A parasite-doctor in a frozen chateau investigates a death and encounters a rival infection threatening body and mind.

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Themes labels: identity · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · medical ethics · oppression · control · personhood · trauma · grooming · abuse · survival · decay · humanity · colonization · self-discovery · memory · loss of agency

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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1

Yukito Kishiro · 1995 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

An amnesiac cyborg is rebuilt from scrap and pulled into violent fights while searching for who she was.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · self-discovery · freedom · agency · humanity · machine humanity · class divide · social stratification · survival · violence · morality · corruption · control · grief · fate · power · body autonomy · class oppression · existentialism

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The Archive Undying

Emma Mieko Candon · 2023 · The Downworld Sequence

A traumatized, unkillable relic is dragged back into a ruined world of AI gods, mechs, devotion, and dangerous secrets.

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Themes labels: personhood · autonomy · devotion · faith · religious trauma · identity · selfhood · power and control · resistance · survival · transhumanism · memory · trauma · grief · possession · consumption · corruption · consent · obligation · love and horror

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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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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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The Merge

Grace Walker · 2025

A mother and daughter enter an experimental mind-merging program in a resource-strained dystopia, only to question its true cost.

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Themes labels: identity · autonomy · freedom · control · ethics · selfhood · sacrifice · love · loss · grief · dementia · memory · resistance · class divide · consent · bodily autonomy · medical ethics · human rights · government control · corporate manipulation · capitalism · climate crisis · overpopulation · scarcity · nature vs nurture · critical thinking

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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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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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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Themes labels: privacy · bodily autonomy · freedom · control · identity · memory · grief · trauma · mental health · loneliness · connection · autonomy · technology ethics · surveillance · capitalism · political control · public safety · personhood · free will · dementia · truth versus false memory · collectivism · individualism

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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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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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