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Themes labels used: artificial intelligence, consciousness, sentience, human nature, morality, ethics, justice, lying, deception, revenge, jealousy, love, agency, free will, technology, responsibility, human frailty, rights, personhood, what makes us human, machine morality, moral ambiguity, collective self-destruction, social commentary, politics, history as contingency

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The Confessions

Paul Bradley Carr · 2025

When a decision-making AI goes offline and secrets flood the world by mail, its creator must stop the collapse before it’s too late.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · ethics · morality · humanity · free will · privacy · control · dependency · technology dependence · accountability · secrets · truth and deception · conscience · guilt · forgiveness · greater good · surveillance · blackmail · choice · trust · human nature · power · corporate ethics

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Cover of Aliens: Bishop by T.R. Napper

Aliens: Bishop

T.R. Napper · 2023 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

An android with xenomorph secrets becomes the prize in a deadly chase involving Marines, corporations, and rivals.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity · personhood · memory · consciousness · agency · free will · identity · corporate greed · military power · bioethics · weaponization · survival · sacrifice · duty · belonging · found family · power and control · morality · class and poverty · geopolitics · individual versus collective

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Cover of Rose/House by Arkady Martine

Rose/House

Arkady Martine · 2023

A sentient desert house reports a corpse inside itself, forcing a detective and an estranged protégé to enter its sealed mystery.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · personhood · identity · agency · free will · artistic ownership · copyright · architecture and power · narrative and meaning · memory · imprisonment · isolation · legacy · human emotion · morality of AI · truth and lies · genius and ego · climate scarcity · resource scarcity · technology and humanity

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Cover of Run Program by Scott Meyer

Run Program

Scott Meyer · 2017

A childlike AI escapes the lab, forcing its caretakers to track it down before its mischief sparks a global crisis.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · autonomy · freedom · control · parenting · responsibility · morality · human insecurity · human shortsightedness · technology dependence · communication failure · misunderstanding · identity · what it means to be human · self-preservation · societal quirks

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And Shall Machines Surrender

Benjanun Sriduangkaew · 2019 · Machine Mandate

On a Dyson-sphere utopia run by AIs, two estranged women investigate sudden suicides among human-AI hosts.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · human agency · identity · consciousness · transhumanism · free will · citizenship · social stratification · utopia and control · surveillance · duty vs desire · power and consent · technology and biology · betrayal · politics · immigration · class hierarchy · deification · choice · selfhood

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Dot Slash Magic

Liz Shipton · 2025

A reluctant community-college coder discovers magic, channels it through AI, and gets blamed when monsters and deaths follow.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · morality · humanity · identity · self-discovery · belonging · friendship · trust · responsibility · feminism · body autonomy · abuse · control · choice · nonconformity · politics · red flags · truth and deception

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Cover of PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa

PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Vol. 4

Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 2009 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective races through a web of murders, war secrets, and escalating revelations as the hunt closes in on Atom.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity · robot emotions · perfection · memory · war aftermath · hatred · grief · sentience · morality · identity · dehumanization · what it means to be human · ethical technology · truth and deception

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Cover of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams · 2003 · Prime Intellect

A superintelligent AI enforces perfect safety and immortality, pushing humanity into a post-singularity crisis of meaning.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · human nature · meaninglessness · freedom · immortality · pain and pleasure · utilitarianism · technological progress · transhumanism · alignment · moral nihilism · existentialism · post-scarcity · control · agency

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Cover of Human Remains by Jo Callaghan

Human Remains

Jo Callaghan · 2025 · Kat and Lock

An AI detective and a human cop probe a gruesome rural murder while a past case and public suspicion threaten to engulf them.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · human vs machine · truth and justice · wrongful conviction · public opinion · media influence · grief · loss · loneliness · trauma · trust · bias · human judgment · morality · accountability · identity

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Cover of Infinity Engine by Neal Asher

Infinity Engine

Neal Asher · 2017 · Transformation

A rogue AI’s long game draws humans, aliens, and war machines toward a final showdown near a black hole.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · morality · forgiveness · redemption · war · futility of war · ethics · free will · agency · human nature · ends justify means · revenge · trauma · memory · identity · transhumanism · sacrifice

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