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Themes labels used: identity, personhood, humanity, memory, aging, mortality, ethics, medical ethics, scientific ethics, transhumanism, selfhood, body image, beauty standards, disfigurement, disability, race, privilege, legacy, love, family, greed, selfishness, continuity of self, soul

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Cover of Luminous by Silvia Park

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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Distance: 0.0862

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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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Distance: 0.0887

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Cover of Every Version of You by Grace Chan

Every Version of You

Grace Chan · 2022

In a climate-damaged near-future Australia, a woman must choose between a virtual future and the physical ties that anchor her.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · consciousness · mortality · grief · loss · climate change · technology · capitalism · class inequality · embodiment · authenticity · migration · diaspora · belonging · memory · ethics · disability · aging · mental health · consumerism · privacy · consent · social responsibility · surveillance · progress · transhumanism

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Distance: 0.0888

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Cover of Slow Gods by Claire North

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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Distance: 0.0909

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Cover of Mem by Bethany C. Morrow

Mem

Bethany C. Morrow · 2018

In alternate 1920s Montreal, an extracted memory who can think for herself is summoned back to the lab.

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Themes labels: 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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Distance: 0.0961

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Cover of The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel by Wendy Xu

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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Distance: 0.0990

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Cover of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop

If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

Kim Cho-yeop · 2026

Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · belonging · connection · loneliness · grief · loss · memory · motherhood · parenthood · classism · misogyny · discrimination · bioethics · eugenics · transhumanism · empathy · legacy · imperfection · hope · melancholy · technological progress · limits of science · moral choice · utopia · alienness · translation of emotions

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Distance: 0.1021

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Cover of The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey · 1985 · Brainship

A disabled girl becomes the mind of a starship and navigates missions, love, grief, and the ethics of her existence.

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Themes labels: disability · eugenics · personhood · humanity · grief · loss · love · agency · consent · ethics · identity · bodily autonomy · social worth · companionate love · art and music · gender roles · alienation · growth · choice

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Cover of The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman

The Museum of Human History

Rebekah Bergman · 2023

A comatose girl who never ages draws scientists, family, and seekers into an interwoven mystery about time, memory, and youth.

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Themes labels: time · memory · aging · mortality · grief · loss · pain · preservation · human condition · impermanence · identity · self-improvement · youth obsession · medical ethics · biotech ethics · dementia · forgetting · connection · family · death · trauma · humanity · history · meaning of life · ethics · resilience · endurance

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Cover of Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl

Heechee Rendezvous

Frederik Pohl · 1985 · Heechee Saga

A human mind living in machine form races to meet the elusive Heechee as a greater alien threat emerges.

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Themes labels: identity · mortality · immortality · consciousness · memory · ownership · humanity · moral responsibility · guilt · love · loss · fear of aging · first contact · technology ethics · knowledge limits · civilizational threat · survival

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Distance: 0.1044

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Cover of The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke

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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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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Distance: 0.1068

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