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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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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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Los cuerpos del verano

Martín Felipe Castagnet · 2012

In a near-future Argentina, the dead can return in purchased bodies, but revenge and identity complicate survival.

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Themes labels: identity · body and self · mortality · immortality · technology and society · class inequality · gender · desire · family · ethics · religion · vulnerability · consumerism · memory · time

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Themes labels: humanity · personhood · rights · prejudice · freedom · slavery · civil rights · identity · self-definition · mortality · immortality · love · friendship · loneliness · consciousness · self-awareness · individuality · acceptance · technology and society · philosophy · morality · language · creativity · bureaucracy · law · law and justice · human condition

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Touch

Claire North · 2015

An immortal body-hopper races to solve a murder and evade hunters while wrestling with identity, consent, and survival.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · gender · sexuality · consent · morality · love · beauty · humanity · memory · time · death · survival · personhood · embodiment · ethics · freedom · power · grief · revenge

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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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Re-Coil

J.T. Nicholas · 2020

A salvage crewman is murdered, re-bodies, and uncovers a conspiracy tied to immortal body-swapping and AI.

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Themes labels: immortality · identity · selfhood · body dysphoria · gender identity · race · class inequality · corporate control · humanity · death · memory · discrimination · transhumanism · social consequence

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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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