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Themes labels used: gender roles, sexuality, identity, self-knowledge, social freedom, utopia and its limits, individual vs society, misogyny, race, language and meaning, subjectivity, empathy, class, politics, surveillance, happiness, alienation, social codes, performance of identity, consent

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Venus Plus X

Theodore Sturgeon · 1960

A man is pulled into a future society without gender and forced to confront everything his own world takes for granted.

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Themes labels: gender roles · sexism · gender identity · sexuality · feminism · misogyny · patriarchy · religion · morality · social conditioning · social roles · utopia · human nature · evolution · equality · binary sex · androgyny · enculturation · social oppression · taboo · human universals · child worship · violence · peace · technology and society

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Consider Her Ways and Others

John Wyndham · 1961

A Wyndham short-story collection of time slips, alternate realities, satire, and a disturbing women-only future.

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Themes labels: gender roles · feminism · patriarchy · reproductive rights · social control · class hierarchy · consumerism · romance as conditioning · individuality · power structures · societal critique · identity · free will · determinism · alternate outcomes · humanity · social satire · bureaucracy · morality of progress · love versus utility

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Walking Practice

Dolki Min · 2023

A stranded shapeshifting alien uses dating apps to survive, and their hunt becomes a queer horror of belonging and identity.

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Themes labels: gender roles · gender performance · queer alienation · disability and access · loneliness · belonging · humanity · otherness · social conformity · beauty standards · identity and authenticity · survival · alienation · sexuality · love and acceptance · marginalization · social prejudice · performance of self · body politics · human dehumanization

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A Twist in Time

Julie McElwain · 2017 · Kendra Donovan

A time-stranded FBI profiler must clear her lover’s name in 1815 London while chasing a brutal killer through high society.

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Themes labels: gender roles · women's rights · social mores · class dynamics · time displacement · belonging · identity · justice · secrecy · deception · adaptation · historical comparison · power and privilege

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Glory Season

David Brin · 1994

On an isolated matriarchal world of female clones and social castes, a young outsider is pulled into upheaval.

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Themes labels: gender roles · sexual politics · reproduction · cloning · identity · individuality · conformity · stability vs change · social engineering · class hierarchy · adaptability · difference and belonging · power and control · genetics and society · feminism · colonial contact · trade and autonomy

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Stranded

Rosalind Tate · 2020 · The Shorten Chronicles

Two university students vanish through a lift into an altered 1925 England and must solve the portal to get home.

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Themes labels: gender roles · women's oppression · social class · social propriety · adaptation · identity · home and belonging · alternate history · choice and consequence · secrets · survival · free will · historical change · cultural mismatch

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The Hierarchies

Ros Anderson · 2020

A sentient sex robot in a near-future hierarchy starts questioning her place, her programming, and what freedom costs.

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Themes labels: personhood · consent · autonomy · free will · female oppression · gender roles · patriarchy · objectification · exploitation · humanity · consciousness · technology and power · identity · selfhood · body politics · class inequality · sexual violence · representation of women · labor and ownership · ethics of creation

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The Seeds of Time

John Wyndham · 1956

A varied mid-century SF collection of ten idea-driven stories exploring time, Mars, identity, robots, and human nature.

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Themes labels: identity · free will · determinism · ethics · colonialism · racism · misogyny · gender roles · humanity · otherness · survival · adaptation · home · belonging · loneliness · social commentary · class conflict · technological change · human nature · selfhood

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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1

Fumi Yoshinaga · 2009 · 大奥 [Ōoku]

In alternate Edo Japan, a plague leaves women in power and men precious, reshaping court life inside the shogun’s hidden chambers.

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Themes labels: gender roles · sexism · misogyny · power dynamics · sexual politics · social order · social convention · reproduction · fertility · class hierarchy · patriarchy critique · matriarchy · history and revision · women in power · duty vs desire · societal change · oppression · human cruelty · political power · identity

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Glasshouse

Charles Stross · 2006

An amnesiac future fugitive hides inside a 20th-century social experiment that soon turns sinister.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · gender roles · social conformity · surveillance · control · free will · posthumanism · historical reconstruction · censorship · state power · human nature · classical sociology · privacy · oppression · body autonomy

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The 5th Gender

G.L. Carriger, Gail Carriger · 2019 · Tinkered Stars

An exiled alien and a human detective chase a murder aboard a spaceship while their long-simmering crush ignites.

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Themes labels: gender identity · reproductive autonomy · choice · acceptance · xenophobia · oppression · identity · self-determination · cross-cultural understanding · communication · sexuality · language · societal expectations

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The Gate to Women's Country

Sheri S. Tepper · 1999

In a post-apocalyptic matriarchy, a young woman uncovers the hidden cost of peace and the secrets that keep it alive.

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Themes labels: gender roles · feminism · violence · peace vs freedom · power and control · utopia and dystopia · ethics of means · social engineering · education · nature vs nurture · eugenics · reproduction · war and militarism · bodily autonomy · truth and secrecy · human nature · male violence · female power

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