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Themes labels used: Capitalism, Productivity, Hustle culture, Exploitation, Corporate greed, Inequality, Grief, Trauma, Mental health, Memory, Identity, Queerness, Bioethics, Technology ethics, Consumerism, Environmental impact, Social prejudice, Extremism, Public health, Humanity

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The Body Scout

Lincoln Michel · 2021

A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.

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Themes labels: capitalism · commodification of bodies · humanity · personhood · class inequality · medical debt · corporate greed · body autonomy · ethics of enhancement · identity · family · addiction · consumerism · sports and society · science and morality · environmental collapse · racism · xenophobia · disability · freedom · surveillance · labor exploitation

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Themes labels: loss · grief · mortality · immortality · hope · loneliness · connection · capitalism · class hierarchy · technology · AI ethics · humanity · environmentalism · social injustice · gender inequality · transphobia · domestic violence · memory · survival · alienation · resistance · late capitalism

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The Franchise

Thomas Elrod · 2026

A studio turns a beloved fantasy franchise into a living world, where hidden truth, memory tech, and greed collide.

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Themes labels: capitalism · greed · ethics · identity · memory · performance · agency · free will · media criticism · fandom · authenticity · art vs commerce · exploitation · control · consent · technology · reality and illusion · morality · social commentary · corporate power

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Distance: 0.0969

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The Dividing Sky

Jill Tew · 2024

In a corporate dystopia, a memory seller and a law enforcer are forced together when she loses her memories.

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Themes labels: anti-capitalism · productivity culture · class inequality · corporate power · humanity · identity · memory · freedom · self-determination · community care · consumerism · labor exploitation · propaganda · dehumanization · joy · hope · nature vs technology · resistance · justice

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Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy

Matt Ruff · 2004

In a satirical 2023 New York, a sewer-dwelling investigator is pulled into a bizarre conspiracy of robots, sharks, and power.

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Themes labels: capitalism · racism · environmentalism · public health · technology ethics · objectivism · conspiracy · consumerism · corporate greed · social justice · urbanization · hope · morality

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The Employees

Olga Ravn · 2020

A crew of humans and humanoids on a future ship are altered by mysterious objects and forced to rethink work, self, and life.

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Themes labels: humanity · dehumanization · work · productivity · capitalism · alienation · memory · nostalgia · longing · identity · sentience · belonging · labor critique · corporate power · mortality · selfhood · technology and life · ethics · relationship to Earth · happiness

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84K

Claire North · 2018

In a corporate dystopia where every crime has a price, one auditor’s past forces him to challenge the system.

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Themes labels: capitalism · human value · dehumanization · moral apathy · social inequality · state power · corporate power · justice · complicity · resistance · human rights · greed · survival · class oppression

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Distance: 0.1016

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System Collapse

Martha Wells · 2023 · The Murderbot Diaries

A damaged Security Unit races to save colonists from corporate exploitation while confronting its own trauma.

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Themes labels: trauma · mental health · PTSD · autonomy · personhood · humanity · corporate greed · capitalism critique · worker exploitation · slavery · identity · self-knowledge · trust · responsibility · survival · connection

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It Looks Like Us

Alison Ames · 2022

A teen Antarctic research trip turns deadly when Riley suspects her crew is being infiltrated by a shape-shifting monster.

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Themes labels: corporate greed · capitalism critique · climate change · environmental pollution · anxiety · mental health · trauma · survival · isolation · paranoia · identity · trust · body autonomy · sacrifice · queer casualness · friendship · moral compromise

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Hard Boiled

Frank Miller · 1993 · Hard Boiled

A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.

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Themes labels: capitalism · consumerism · slavery · dehumanization · identity · power hierarchy · corporate control · humanity · selfhood · free will · violence · technology · social decay · fate · reality vs illusion · play god · class oppression · rebellion · media saturation · moral decay

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Ripe

Sarah Rose Etter · 2023

A depressed tech worker in Silicon Valley is shadowed by a black hole while work, love, and life keep unraveling.

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Themes labels: capitalism · late capitalism · hustle culture · work alienation · mental health · depression · anxiety · identity · female autonomy · pregnancy · abortion · loneliness · class disparity · wealth inequality · burnout · parental trauma · complicity · existential dread · modern life

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Alien: The Cold Forge

Alex White · 2018 · Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

A corporate audit on an isolated research station turns into a deadly struggle over xenomorphs, secrets, and survival.

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Themes labels: corporate greed · capitalism · survival · human cruelty · human monsters · identity · body autonomy · disability · gender · trans themes · sentience · animal suffering · ethics of research · scientific ambition · moral compromise · corruption · power and control

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