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Themes labels used: ethics, animal rights, consent, exploitation, isolation, loneliness, connection, intimacy, capitalism, climate change, conservation, hubris, obsession, human arrogance, research ethics, emotional labor, communication failure, self-destruction, sacrifice, belonging

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Bewilderment

Richard Powers · 2021

A grieving astrobiologist raises his volatile son through a near-future climate crisis using an experimental brain therapy.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · parenting · love · environmental destruction · climate change · animal extinction · interconnectedness · empathy · truth-telling · science versus ignorance · diagnosis and labeling · mental health · medical authority · human arrogance · social responsibility · activism · hope and despair · collective failure · belonging

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2017

A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.

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Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement

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After the Dragons

Cynthia Zhang · 2021

In polluted near-future Beijing, a dragon rescuer and a medical researcher connect over tiny dragons and a fatal lung disease.

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Themes labels: climate change · pollution · chronic illness · grief · hope · care ethics · animal welfare · racism · diaspora · identity · coming out · belonging · control · responsibility · imperfection · love under pressure · small actions · science and ethics

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The Merge

Grace Walker · 2025

A mother and daughter enter an experimental mind-merging program in a resource-strained dystopia, only to question its true cost.

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Themes labels: identity · autonomy · freedom · control · ethics · selfhood · sacrifice · love · loss · grief · dementia · memory · resistance · class divide · consent · bodily autonomy · medical ethics · human rights · government control · corporate manipulation · capitalism · climate crisis · overpopulation · scarcity · nature vs nurture · critical thinking

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Spellhacker

M.K. England · 2020

A queer teen heist crew steals forbidden magic in a futuristic city, then stumbles into a conspiracy.

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Themes labels: friendship · loyalty · abandonment fear · communication · trauma · grief · climate change · corporate greed · anti-capitalism · social mobility · wealth disparity · resistance · community · love · identity · trust · vulnerability · responsibility · power imbalance

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics of science · hubris · responsibility · othering · isolation · loneliness · rejection · prejudice · ambition · good and evil · monstrosity · social influence · knowledge and consequences · mourning · revenge · identity · acceptance · nature of evil

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Familiar Face

Michael DeForge · 2020

A complaint-reader in a constantly updating future searches for connection in a surreal, technocratic world that rewrites people and places.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · change · adaptation · alienation · loneliness · human connection · control · autonomy · bureaucracy · technology · capitalism · efficiency · optimization · surveillance · power · resistance · grief · love · online life · consumerism · depersonalization · emotional labor

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Touching Ice

Laurann Dohner · 2010 · Cyborg Seduction

A lonely space-station programmer must pretend to be a sex bot to survive and ends up under the care of the cyborg she’s been watching.

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Themes labels: trust · loneliness · survival · desire · power and control · dehumanization · attachment · identity concealment · agency · love vs duty · oppression · breeding politics

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The Man in the Maze

Robert Silverberg · 1969

An exiled diplomat with a dangerous alien curse is hunted down to help humanity contact a new alien threat.

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Themes labels: alienation · isolation · othering · human condition · trust · betrayal · honor · free will · sacrifice · greater good · moral responsibility · human nature · belonging · loneliness · empathy · communication · psyche · self-knowledge · redemption · ambition · social rejection · male bonding · human connection

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