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Themes labels used: technology and society, discrimination, class stratification, access inequality, ability enhancement, privacy, corporate power, activism, medical gaslighting, autonomy, parenting, trust, honesty, forgiveness, communication, gender, disability, neurodiversity, mental health, productivity pressure, social conformity, coming of age

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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu · 2016

A curated anthology of contemporary Chinese sci-fi stories, with essays that frame the field’s themes, history, and debates.

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Themes labels: technology and society · social stratification · censorship · class hierarchy · work pressure · elder care · time and aging · state control · capitalism · modernity · ethics · identity · humanity · cultural change · communication · freedom

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Company Town

Madeline Ashby · 2016

A tough, unaugmented bodyguard on a future oil-rig city is pulled into a corporate mystery as murders and threats mount.

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Themes labels: body autonomy · corporate power · class divide · gendered violence · sex work · disability · identity · outsiderhood · technology and control · surveillance · posthumanism · morality · social inequality · loyalty · trust

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Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

David Wong, Jason Pargin · 2020 · Zoey Ashe

A newly inherited crime boss must clear her name after a corpse frames her during a chaotic Halloween in a futuristic city.

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Themes labels: power and responsibility · wealth and morality · social commentary · misogyny · sexism · cyberbullying · surveillance · capitalism · class inequality · corruption · tribalism · conspiracy theories · public perception · mental health · social media · civil rights · racism · civil liberties · leadership · human condition

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Everything Belongs to the Future

Laurie Penny · 2016

In a near-future Oxford, an anti-aging drug deepens inequality and a group of activists tries to fight back.

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Themes labels: class inequality · capitalism · wealth disparity · aging · mortality · power and control · scientific ethics · privatization · activism · gender identity · sexuality · climate change · state surveillance · police infiltration · patents · medical access · social justice · individual responsibility

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.

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Themes labels: identity · disability · accessibility · social exclusion · prejudice · classism · technology and society · civil rights · culture and community · ethics · personhood · privacy · power · politics · consumerism of bodies · acceptance · cure versus identity

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The Shockwave Rider

John Brunner · 1995 · Club of Rome Quartet

A gifted fugitive uses identity hacks to evade a surveillance state built on data, control, and accelerating change.

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Themes labels: privacy · surveillance · identity · information overload · technology and society · social control · freedom · autonomy · adaptation · accelerating change · data capitalism · consumerism · dehumanization · wisdom vs intelligence · class inequality · mental health · prediction markets · hacktivism · systemic corruption · overmedication · mobility · tribalism

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The World of Cyberpunk 2077

Marcin Batylda · 2020 · Cyberpunk 2077

An in-universe magazine-style guide to Night City, unpacking Cyberpunk 2077’s history, factions, tech, and culture.

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Themes labels: corporate power · class inequality · social stratification · transhumanism · technology dependence · urban decay · violence · oppression · surveillance · rebellion · identity · survival · dystopia · alternate history · worldbuilding

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北京折叠

Hao Jingfang, 郝景芳 · 2016

In a stratified future Beijing that literally folds by time, a low-level worker crosses class boundaries on a simple errand.

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Themes labels: class inequality · social stratification · urban segregation · labor exploitation · overpopulation · automation · surveillance · scarcity · alienation · solitude · human fragility · social criticism · freedom · censorship · technology and society · art and culture · reincarnation · immortality · parental sacrifice

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

Ben Bova, C.L. Moore, C.M. Kornbluth, Cordwainer Smith, Eric Frank Russell, H.G. Wells, Henry Kuttner, Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell Jr., Lawrence O’Donnell, Lester del Rey, Poul Anderson, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon · 1974

Eleven award-voted classic science fiction novellas trace the genre’s early ideas, fears, and wonder across decades.

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Themes labels: identity · technology dependence · consumerism · eugenics · class inequality · social control · survival · human adaptation · exploration · power and autonomy · masculinity · freedom · civil disobedience · postwar society · science and progress · fear of the unknown