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Themes labels used: identity, autonomy, free will, personhood, family, chosen family, humanity, artificial intelligence, ethics of technology, being misunderstood, rights and property, selfhood, sentience, grief, agency

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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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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · 2018 · LIFEL1K3

A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · humanity · artificial intelligence · slavery · rebellion · choice · morality · power and control · personhood · family · survival · grief · trauma · ethics of creation · freedom · trust

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

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Themes labels: personhood · identity · free will · sentience · humanity · love and choice · technology fear · discrimination · acceptance · rights · self-discovery · morality of creation

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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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Cog

Greg Van Eekhout · 2019

A learning robot boy teams up with other robots and races across the country to find his creator and free himself.

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Themes labels: free will · choice · learning from mistakes · identity · personhood · empathy · belonging · autonomy · bodily autonomy · AI ethics · corporate greed · friendship · family · what it means to be human · moral development · choice and consequence · self-determination · independence

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The Perfect Wife

J.P. Delaney · 2019

A grieving tech CEO recreates his missing wife as an AI companion, but her memories uncover dangerous truths.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · identity · humanity · memory · consent · data ownership · ethics · morality · free will · marriage · parenthood · autism · sexism · misogyny · technology and humanity · perfection · grief · abuse · control · consciousness

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Axiomatic

Greg Egan · 1997

A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · free will · predestination · selfhood · moral responsibility · ethics · technology and humanity · genetic engineering · belief · memory · love · solipsism · immortality · personhood · transhumanism · determinism · social consequences · personal autonomy · altered states

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The Ghost Brigades

John Scalzi · 2007 · Old Man's War

A cloned special-ops soldier races to stop an alien alliance while his maker’s buried memories begin to surface.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · free will · ethics · morality · humanity · choice · personhood · colonization · war ethics · nature vs nurture · individual agency · technology ethics · loyalty · duty · selfhood

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Cover of The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast by Tom King

The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast

Tom King · 2016 · The Vision (2015)

A synthetic family’s fragile suburban normalcy collapses as love, destiny, and secrets pull Vision toward tragedy.

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Themes labels: humanity · family · love · loss · identity · normalcy · otherness · free will · destiny · trauma · grief · revenge · sacrifice · morality · existentialism · belonging · artificial intelligence

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vN

Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression

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