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Themes labels used: grief, identity, transformation, free will, autonomy, community, memory, mortality, love, loss, acceptance, pain, happiness, toxic positivity, utopia vs dystopia, ethics, consent, self-determination, change, humanity, post-scarcity

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer · 2026

An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.

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Themes labels: hope · resilience · healing · identity · personhood · autonomy · free will · bodily autonomy · trauma · grief · loss · memory · purpose · forgiveness · connection · community · humane technology · humanity · choice · change · survival · responsibility · environmental collapse · war and peace

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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

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Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · sentience · free will · love · desire · identity · personhood · rights · autonomy · loss · grief · selfishness · moral ambiguity · social conformity · alienation · discrimination · othering · coming of age · emotional repression · compassion · redemption · choice · societal pressure

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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Charlie Jane Anders · 2021

Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.

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Themes labels: free will · fate · identity · gender · sexuality · queerness · transness · love · loss · hope · community · survival · politics · oppression · climate change · technology and society · grief · belonging · art and expression · social division · ethics · responsibility

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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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Locklands

Robert Jackson Bennett · 2022 · The Founders Trilogy

Eight years into a magical war, survivors must breach a reality-warping enemy before it can reset creation itself.

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Themes labels: free will · control · sacrifice · grief · empathy · power corruption · community · identity · humanity · hope · utopia vs dystopia · technology and society · good vs evil · cost of survival

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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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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 3: Killing Angel

Yukito Kishiro · 2004 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

After a devastating loss, a cyborg heroine throws herself into a brutal futuristic sport while her guardian searches for her.

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Themes labels: grief · identity · memory · humanity · body autonomy · selfhood · loss · independence · violence · freedom · class divide · social inequality · technology and personhood · fate · escape

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Mem

Bethany C. Morrow · 2018

In alternate 1920s Montreal, an extracted memory who can think for herself is summoned back to the lab.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · trauma · autonomy · ownership · personhood · self-determination · free will · ethics · power · classism · capitalism · patriarchy · belonging · loss · self-possession · othering · women's autonomy · memory and grief

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UnWorld

Jayson Greene · 2025

In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · personhood · consciousness · identity · humanity · autonomy · AI ethics · suicide · addiction · loneliness · mental health · mourning · technology and intimacy · digital age · motherhood · parenting · selfhood · attachment · mortality · data and privacy · class and access · civil rights

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MILA 2.0

Debra Driza · 2013 · MILA 2.0

A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · self-acceptance · free will · family loyalty · memory · authenticity · personhood · moral ambiguity · survival · technology and humanity · grief · betrayal · control · coming of age

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Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 2: Tears of an Angel

Yukito Kishiro · 2004 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

An amnesiac cyborg bounty hunter falls for a troubled street boy, forcing a brutal choice in a bleak future city.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · love · loss · survival · morality · class inequality · hope · dignity · obsession · self-worth · free will · compassion · sacrifice · trauma · dreams vs reality

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The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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