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Themes labels used: legacy, reclamation, repair, environmental restoration, human responsibility, social prejudice, outsiders, inherited trauma, memory, future generations, class inequality, acceptance, hope, bittersweet progress, moral action, science and ethics, can’t fix the past

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Walk the Vanished Earth

Erin Swan · 2022

Across seven generations, one family is carried from Kansas prairies to flooded cities and Mars as climate collapse reshapes humanity.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · ancestry · legacy · motherhood · parenthood · generational trauma · inherited trauma · human resilience · survival · hope · future generations · connection · community · loss · rebirth · morality · meaning · stories · dreams

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Brown Girl in the Ring

Nalo Hopkinson · 2012

In a collapsed future Toronto, a young mother and her healer grandmother confront crime, spirits, and family legacy.

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Themes labels: survival · heritage · ancestral knowledge · motherhood · community resilience · poverty · exploitation · oppression · agency · forgiveness · responsibility · family legacy · good vs evil · ethics · class inequality · resistance · generational trauma · faith

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City of All Seasons

Oliver K. Langmead, Aliya Whiteley · 2025

Two cousins in opposite versions of the same split city try to contact each other and uncover what fractured their world.

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Themes labels: family · legacy · connection · identity · creation · destruction · hope · survival · oppression · corruption · community · memory · grief · trauma · repair · resilience · change · climate change · art and storytelling · film · light · truth and secrecy · power and control · class power · environmental disaster · dualities

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What We Can Know

Ian McEwan · 2025

A future scholar hunts a vanished poem in a flooded Britain, uncovering buried truths about love, memory, and history.

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Themes labels: memory · history · truth · knowledge limits · nostalgia · climate change · environmental collapse · legacy · guilt · authorship · privacy · humanity · mourning · moral compromise · gender double standard · cultural inheritance

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The Ancients

John Larison · 2024

In a climate-ravaged far future, three entwined journeys chase survival, reunion, and power as civilization frays.

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Themes labels: resilience · hope · survival · family · stewardship · climate change · resource depletion · social inequality · power · history repeating · cyclical history · community · memory · storytelling · tradition · myth · identity · loyalty · adaptation · human nature · civilization collapse · future generations

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The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years

Chingiz Aitmatov · 1988

A railway worker’s funeral journey through the Kazakh steppe opens into memory, legend, and a strange space-age subplot.

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Themes labels: memory · identity · cultural preservation · tradition · modernity · death · aging · friendship · love · loss · resilience · humanity · oppression · bureaucracy · justice · work ethic · historical trauma · geopolitics · religion · truth · freedom

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The West Passage

Jared Pechaček · 2024

In a decaying palace-city ruled by giant Ladies, two young heirs set out on separate quests as the seasons break and a Beast stirs.

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Themes labels: decay · change · preservation · cultural memory · stories and myth · duty · authority · isolation · identity · gender · kindness · tradition · inevitable destruction · hope amid ruin · societal roles · generational trauma

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The Fallen Fruit

Shawntelle Madison · 2024

A history professor inherits family land and uncovers a generations-old curse that sends her ancestors back through time.

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Themes labels: fate · free will · generational trauma · family legacy · grief · loss · survival · resilience · freedom · slavery · civil rights · racism · segregation · Black history · ancestry · history repeating itself · sacrifice · hope · love · perseverance · memory · inheritance · motherhood · education · identity · community · faith

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Clap Back

Nalo Hopkinson · 2021

A Black designer and a protest artist clash over tech, memory, and anti-racist rebellion in a fragmented speculative future.

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Themes labels: racism · racial equity · exploitation · commodification · cultural appropriation · identity · memory · forgiveness · legacy · resistance · hope · power · ownership · representation · social justice · intergenerational trauma

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Nubia: The Awakening

Omar Epps, Clarence A. Haynes · 2022 · Nubia

Three teens from climate-destroyed Nubia uncover inherited powers in a divided future New York and must choose their loyalties.

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Themes labels: climate change · racism · classism · oppression · displacement · ancestry · identity · belonging · inheritance · community responsibility · power and responsibility · social justice · migration · survival · political corruption · history and memory · cultural survival · self-discovery · coming of age · revolution

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Superman: Brainiac

Geoff Johns · 2009 · Superman: New Krypton Saga

Superman confronts Brainiac, a cold alien collector of worlds, in a fast, emotional battle that reshapes his life.

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Themes labels: humanity · hope · identity · legacy · grief · loss · parenthood · heroism · fear · responsibility · memory · culture · knowledge · home · protective love · sacrifice · nostalgia · continuity · retcon · emotional resilience

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A Darkling Plain

Philip Reeve · 2007 · Mortal Engines Quartet

In a ruined future, Tom, Wren, and their allies race through shifting factions and hidden secrets toward one last war-scarred reckoning.

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Themes labels: war · peace · environmental destruction · humanity · redemption · memory · legacy · hope · compassion · morality · history · technology · class difference · survival · eco-critique

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