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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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Holy Fire

Bruce Sterling · 2001

In a post-plague gerontocracy, a risk-averse elder gets rejuvenated and rediscovers youth, art, and freedom.

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Themes labels: aging · life extension · mortality · identity · authenticity · art · creativity · humanity · posthumanity · freedom · security · risk · safety · power · social control · inequality · class stratification · generational conflict · healthcare ethics · medical ethics · aesthetic philosophy · self-discovery · rebellion · societal stagnation · consequences of longevity · memory · body-mind relation

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Distance: 0.1031

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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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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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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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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · selfhood · personhood · bioethics · cloning ethics · rights and dignity · individual rights vs collective good · belonging · freedom · human experimentation · memory and origin · trust · morality of science · family · love · survival · acceptance

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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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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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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · selfhood · human nature · souls · memory · personhood · morality of cloning · privacy · class · prejudice · responsibility · free will · transcendence · godhood · ethics of technology · social change · cheating/fidelity · mortality

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Cover of Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux

Strange Bodies

Marcel Theroux · 2013

A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.

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Themes labels: identity · authenticity · consciousness · human nature · mortality · immortality · madness · language · representation · memory · selfhood · ethics · scientific ethics · philosophy of mind · body-mind relationship · truth · forgery · soul

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Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · perfection · power · privilege · class inequality · bodily autonomy · identity · morality · eugenics · technology and society · medical ethics · social control · discrimination · life and death · progress and consequences · vanity · fear of change · human nature

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