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Themes labels used: identity, selfhood, freedom versus control, emotion regulation, trust, family loyalty, revenge, privacy, government control, rebellion, capitalism, environmentalism, conservation, mental health, depression, addiction, dependency, agency, belonging, choice, secrecy, surveillance, corporate power, ethical technology

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Cover of The Merge by Grace Walker

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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Cover of Behind Blue Eyes by Anna Mocikat

Behind Blue Eyes

Anna Mocikat · 2023 · Behind Blue Eyes

In 2095, a cyborg enforcer’s glitch cracks open a perfect society and leads her toward forbidden love and rebellion.

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Themes labels: humanity · freedom · identity · control · obedience · defiance · trust · betrayal · corporate power · surveillance · individuality · love · duty · self-discovery · artificial intelligence · programming · morality · truth and lies · fate vs choice · class oppression · social control

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Mindbreaker

Kate Dylan · 2023 · Mindwalker

A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · agency · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · free will · corporate greed · capitalism · ethics · technology · religion · faith crisis · indoctrination · control · power · exploitative systems · selfhood · memory · morality · rebellion · resistance · classism · healthcare · social commentary

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Cover of Nexus by Scott Westerfeld

Nexus

Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti · 2017 · Zeroes

A fugitive teen superhero team must reunite, decode strange new powers, and stop a looming disaster.

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Themes labels: identity · trust · morality · power and responsibility · good vs evil · truth and lies · connection · community · individual agency · privacy · freedom · self-acceptance · trauma · guilt · leadership · ethics · choice · control

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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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Cover of Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

Tool of War

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2017 · Ship Breaker

An engineered war beast breaks his programming and fights the creators who want him erased in a brutal future war.

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Themes labels: freedom · obedience · identity · humanity · slavery · loyalty · choice · survival · revenge · war ethics · moral ambiguity · personhood · corporate power · environmental collapse · class struggle · family · trauma · self-determination · human rights

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Slated

Teri Terry · 2012 · Slated

A memory-wiped teen must survive a controlled new life while eerie flashes of her past suggest the government is lying.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · control · freedom · second chances · rehabilitation vs punishment · nature vs nurture · human rights · trust · propaganda · conformity · surveillance · choice · morality · discrimination · rebellion

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Close Liaisons

Anna Zaires · 2013 · The Krinar Chronicles

A college student in near-future New York is drawn into a high-stakes, high-heat bond with a powerful alien ruler.

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Themes labels: freedom · control · consent · bodily autonomy · trust · betrayal · prejudice · power · surveillance · identity · loyalty · humanity · evolution · environmental responsibility · predestination

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The Every

Dave Eggers · 2021 · The Circle

A tech-skeptic infiltrates a mega-corporation to sabotage it from within, but its control keeps expanding.

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Themes labels: privacy · freedom · choice · surveillance · conformity · monopoly power · data privacy · consumerism · algorithmic control · social media addiction · transparency · autonomy · freedom vs security · convenience vs autonomy · cancel culture · climate change · sustainability · technology ethics · collective responsibility · individual agency · behavioral modification · humanity · subjectivity vs objectivity

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Cover of Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol

Martha Wells · 2018 · The Murderbot Diaries

A rogue security AI hunts corporate evidence on an abandoned terraforming site while trying not to care about anyone.

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Themes labels: personhood · freedom · agency · control · emotional growth · trauma · trust · care · humanity · AI ethics · slavery · corporate exploitation · moral dilemma · identity · belonging · loyalty · responsibility

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self/less

Aviva · 2021 · self/less

In a surveilled walled city where self-expression is outlawed, a teen uncovers a hidden underground and a fight for freedom.

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Themes labels: self-expression · individuality · freedom · surveillance · authoritarianism · control · identity · coming of age · truth and lies · resistance · conformity · creativity · trust · choice · social control · humanity

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