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Premise labels used: artificial intelligence, android child, adoptive family, identity crisis, gender identity, coming of age, sentient AI, manufactured child, self-discovery, family system

Themes labels used: identity, belonging, self-determination, nature vs nurture, gender identity, artificial intelligence ethics, adoption, family, humanity, social belonging, race, sexuality, corporate power, gun violence, peer pressure, acceptance, personhood, autonomy, coming of age, technology and ethics

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A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016 · Wayfarers

An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.

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Premise labels: AI body transfer · identity search · coming of age · found family · cloning · sentient rights · self-discovery · bodily autonomy · illegal body · survival

Themes labels: identity · personhood · sentience · belonging · freedom · autonomy · prejudice · class structure · gender · equality · humanity · purpose · survival · motherhood · family · consciousness · cultural difference · ethics · self-determination · empathy · social justice

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · what is human · loneliness · identity · love · parental rejection · existentialism · humanity · dehumanization · technology and society · emotional authenticity · social satire · cynicism · philosophical inquiry · ethics · creation

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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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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

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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Nieves Delgado · 2017

A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · AI growth · AI integration · social adaptation · identity search · self-definition · difference and conformity · human machine contact · conscious machine · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · selfhood · consciousness · humanity · difference · conformity · social integration · labels · gender · sex and gender · trans identity · transfobia · feminism · discrimination · otherness · prejudice · ethics · personhood · anthropocentrism · free will · language and naming · body autonomy · purpose · rebellion · technology and society · philosophical inquiry

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The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Ted Chiang · 2010

A software company’s digital pets evolve into person-like beings, forcing their caretakers to confront AI, love, and rights.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · digital pets · synthetic personhood · virtual world · AI upbringing · personhood ethics · software obsolescence

Themes labels: personhood · consciousness · AI ethics · parenthood · attachment · responsibility · choice · autonomy · moral standing · rights · consent · identity · experience · nurture vs nature · late-stage capitalism · obsolescence · sacrifice · love

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

Themes labels: autonomy · consent · control · identity · personhood · free will · humanity · womanhood · misogyny · objectification · abuse · power dynamics · freedom · self-discovery · self-knowledge · empathy · ownership · agency · intimacy · ethics · technology ethics · gender roles · patriarchy · slavery allegory · body autonomy · self-reliance · growth

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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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Premise labels: android tutor · forbidden love · coming of age · robot rights · artificial intelligence · human-machine relationship · isolated childhood · first love · identity crisis

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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Interview with the Robot

Lee Bacon · 2020

A 12-year-old shoplifter reveals in interrogation that she’s a robot on the run, forcing a truth about family and identity.

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Premise labels: robot identity · interrogation frame · fugitive AI · shoplifting arrest · child services interview · hidden origin · self-discovery · on the run · artificial intelligence · human nature

Themes labels: 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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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 2000 · The Complete Stories

A robot collection centered on sentience, freedom, and humanity, anchored by the title story of Andrew’s long quest for personhood.

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Premise labels: robot identity · robot personhood · humanity question · rights and freedom · robot self-determination · intellectual awakening · sentient machine

Themes labels: humanity · identity · freedom · personhood · civil rights · consciousness · ethics · technology and society · transhumanism · artificial intelligence · gender roles · sexism · religion · environmental harm · mortality · sacrifice · class · prejudice · slavery

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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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Premise labels: android identity · hidden identity · on the run · manufactured self · humanity question · government pursuit · secret project · artificial intelligence · memory loss · identity crisis

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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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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Premise labels: missing spouse · AI replica · robot wife · memory loss · marital deception · tech company · artificial intelligence · identity mystery · perfect family · cobot

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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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Premise labels: robot selfhood · robot rights · human identity · personhood · artificial intelligence · legal recognition · free will · social acceptance

Themes labels: humanity · personhood · rights · prejudice · freedom · slavery · civil rights · identity · self-definition · mortality · immortality · love · friendship · loneliness · consciousness · self-awareness · individuality · acceptance · technology and society · philosophy · morality · language · creativity · bureaucracy · law · law and justice · human condition

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