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Themes labels used: identity, humanity, selfhood, consciousness, mind-body problem, bioethics, genetic engineering, evolution, otherness, acceptance, intolerance, exploration ethics, alienation, purpose, loneliness, memory, free will, plural identity

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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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Duizend & ik

Yorick Goldewijk · 2023

In a controlled dystopian city, a girl numbered Eight begins to question her identity and the world that forbids it.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · freedom · conformity · control · gehoorzaamheid · alienation · selfhood · humanity · ethics of technology · existential questions · reality vs illusion · resistance · memory · self-determination

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Software

Rudy Rucker · 1982 · Ware

An aging robot inventor is drawn into a moon-bound revolt, where mind upload, identity, and immortality collide.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · selfhood · immortality · free will · evolution · personhood · transhumanism · what makes a soul · humanity · memory · body versus mind · technology and morality · individuality versus collectivism

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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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Ringer

Lauren Oliver · 2017 · Replica

Two separated girls navigate cloning fallout, hidden dangers, and identity questions in a dual-track sci-fi sequel.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · selfhood · personhood · bioethics · cloning ethics · rights and dignity · individual rights vs collective good · belonging · freedom · human experimentation · memory and origin · trust · morality of science · family · love · survival · acceptance

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Symbiont

Mira Grant · 2014 · Parasitology

As tapeworm implants awaken and spread, Sal must survive quarantine, captivity, and a crisis of identity.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · consciousness · memory · gender identity · autonomy · ethics · survival · family · personhood · body ownership · science gone wrong

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More Than Human

Theodore Sturgeon · 1979

Misfit children with psychic gifts form a shared consciousness and must decide what power, identity, and humanity mean.

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Themes labels: identity · belonging · loneliness · morality · ethics · human evolution · individuality · collective self · symbiosis · alienation · power · conscience · difference · social acceptance · humanity · psychiatry · sanity · morality and power · group purpose

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Labyrinth

Lois McMaster Bujold · 2009 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

Miles takes a covert rescue job on a corrupt world, only to confront genetic exploitation and an unlikely ally.

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Themes labels: normalcy · difference · humanity · identity · acceptance · self-acceptance · disability · genetic engineering · ethics · exploitation · personal autonomy · dignity · class inequality · body image · othering · morality · free will

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The Ophiuchi Hotline

John Varley · 1977 · Eight Worlds

A cloned geneticist navigates post-Earth solar-system politics, alien tech, and a looming interstellar reckoning.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · cloning · genetic engineering · free will · immortality · human adaptability · survival · social taboo · gender fluidity · transhumanism · ethics of science · alien superiority · memory and self

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Wakers

Orson Scott Card · 2022 · The Side Step Trilogy

A clone teen with the power to jump realities wakes alone on abandoned Earth and must solve why he was created.

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Themes labels: identity · choice · consequence · free will · morality · responsibility · selfhood · humanity · survival · loneliness · trust · reality · causality · multiple selves · purpose · sacrifice · love

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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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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · memory · aging · mortality · ethics · medical ethics · scientific ethics · transhumanism · selfhood · body image · beauty standards · disfigurement · disability · race · privilege · legacy · love · family · greed · selfishness · continuity of self · soul

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