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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Human Son.

Themes labels used: what it means to be human, parenthood, nature versus nurture, climate crisis, environmental responsibility, legacy, compassion, humanity and morality, species survival, trust, memory and history, sustainability, love and sacrifice, collective responsibility

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The Last Human

Lee Bacon · 2019 · The Last Human

A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.

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Themes labels: prejudice · bias · empathy · friendship · trust · forgiveness · coexistence · what it means to be human · environmental responsibility · climate change · propaganda · truth vs lies · morality · mercy · standing up to authority · courage · community · collective responsibility · technology ethics · human complexity

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 2014 · The Girl With All the Gifts

A gifted child in a fortified lab-cum-school faces a world-shaking truth as a fungal apocalypse closes in.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · ethics · morality · survival · love and acceptance · identity · innocence · self-reliance · sacrifice · parenthood · human experimentation · knowledge and awakening · predator and prey

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Fool Night, Vol. 1

Kasumi Yasuda · 2024 · フールナイト [Fool Night]

In a sunless dystopian Earth, a desperate man enters a plant-transformation program to survive—then uncovers unsettling truths.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · survival · poverty · capitalism · class disparity · government control · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · bodily autonomy · sacrifice · duty to society · quality of life · desperation · trauma · mental health · abuse · morality · free will · what it means to be human

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Cover of The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks

The Seventh Son

Sebastian Faulks · 2023

A surrogate pregnancy becomes a secret bioethical experiment that forces a family to confront otherness, power, and humanity.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · ethics of science · human evolution · identity · difference and acceptance · othering · consciousness · nature versus nurture · humanity and morality · power and wealth · responsibility · hubris · prejudice · surveillance and exposure · press intrusion · mental illness · climate change · political critique · Brexit critique · science versus ethics

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009 · The Windup Universe

In flood-threatened Bangkok, rival powers battle over food, seeds, and engineered lives in a bleak biotech future.

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Themes labels: climate change · resource depletion · food security · corporate power · bioethics · humanity · identity · slavery · colonialism · racism · corruption · survival · independence · genetic ownership · ecological collapse · state control · free will · what it means to be human

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Upgrade

Blake Crouch · 2022

A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · evolution · compassion · intelligence · environment · climate change · genetic responsibility · scientific hubris · free will · species survival · moral dilemma · unintended consequences · identity · what it means to be human

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Under the Skin

Michel Faber · 2004

A lone woman drives Scottish roads picking up muscle-bound hitchhikers, but her routine hides a far stranger truth.

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Themes labels: humanity · empathy · identity · alienation · otherness · moral responsibility · speciesism · animal cruelty · factory farming · gender · sexism · class inequality · entitlement · compassion · exile · vulnerability · power · body autonomy · selfhood · community · deception · what it means to be human

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The Rediscovery of Man

Cordwainer Smith · 1999 · Instrumentality of Mankind

A far-future story collection traces humanity’s strange evolution through mythic tales of power, animals, space travel, and personhood.

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Themes labels: what it means to be human · humanism · ethics · social justice · equality · civil rights · animal rights · identity · personhood · freedom · oppression · happiness vs suffering · technology and humanity · science and religion · memory and history · civilization and decay · post-humanity · morality · loneliness · love as equalizer · martyrdom · evolution · biological alteration · psychological control · utopia with dark underbelly · class hierarchy

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Cover of Eva by Peter Dickinson

Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Themes labels: identity · what it means to be human · animal rights · animal welfare · ethics · medical ethics · biotechnology · environmental destruction · overpopulation · conservation · speciesism · selfhood · agency · coming of age · morality · commercialization · public exploitation · nature vs civilization · human responsibility

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Cover of Emily Eternal by M.G. Wheaton

Emily Eternal

M.G. Wheaton · 2019

An artificial consciousness must help save humanity when the sun starts dying far too soon.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · free will · ethics · morality · trauma · empathy · consciousness · what it means to be human · sacrifice · survival · love · trust · power · posthumanism · eugenics · privacy · compassion · human nature · civilization · responsibility

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Cover of The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson

The Fox Inheritance

Mary E. Pearson · 2011 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes 260 years later in a new body and must escape a controlling scientist to find the friend she lost.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · humanity · personhood · bioethics · mortality · guilt · forgiveness · acceptance · change · memory · free will · compassion · technology and ethics · body and mind · classism · discrimination · human relationships · societal change · what it means to be human

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Distance: 0.1352

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