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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil.

Themes labels used: morality, accountability, free will, ideology, radicalization, brainwashing, justice, rehabilitation, identity, intention versus harm, reality and simulation, technology ethics, political extremism, fascism, human nature, gray morality

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Mindbreaker

Kate Dylan · 2023 · Mindwalker

A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · agency · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · free will · corporate greed · capitalism · ethics · technology · religion · faith crisis · indoctrination · control · power · exploitative systems · selfhood · memory · morality · rebellion · resistance · classism · healthcare · social commentary

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Mindwalker

Kate Dylan · 2022 · Mindwalker

A dying teen corporate mindwalker turns fugitive and infiltrates a rebel group to uncover a conspiracy before time runs out.

Why this is here

Themes labels: consent · autonomy · mind control · corporate greed · abuse of power · propaganda · free will · morality of technology · ethical technology · systemic corruption · control · class inequality · poverty · humanity · truth vs loyalty · identity · surveillance · government control · child recruitment · sacrifice

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Distance: 0.1179

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Dissidence

Ken MacLeod · 2016 · The Corporation Wars

Dead soldiers and newly sentient robots are forced into a distant corporate war where reality, loyalty, and personhood blur.

Why this is here

Themes labels: consciousness · free will · autonomy · identity · reality and illusion · personhood · corporate power · capitalism critique · revolution · war ethics · political ideology · history and memory · morality of AI · labor exploitation · humanity

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Distance: 0.1218

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Quantum Night

Robert J. Sawyer · 2016

A psychologist who can spot psychopaths uncovers a missing six months of his own life and a theory that could alter humanity.

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Themes labels: consciousness · conscience · psychopathy · morality · utilitarianism · free will · human nature · ethics · social control · mob mentality · violence · hate · identity · memory · determinism · prejudice · dehumanization · greater good · collective responsibility

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Made for You

Jenna Satterthwaite · 2024

A synthetic woman on a dating show becomes a murder suspect after her husband vanishes, forcing her to uncover the truth.

Why this is here

Themes labels: artificial intelligence · humanity · personhood · identity · free will · autonomy · creator responsibility · ethics · prejudice · othering · domestic violence · control · love and hurt · motherhood · reality vs fantasy · belief and belonging · morally gray

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Bear Head

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2021 · Dogs of War

A Mars worker and a talking bear are pulled into a battle over bioform rights, mind control, and political power.

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Themes labels: free will · agency · civil rights · animal rights · personhood · slavery · oppression · prejudice · fascism · corporate overreach · economic exploitation · political corruption · class inequality · identity · loyalty · control · coercion · privacy · mind ownership · social regression · climate change · transhumanism · bioethics · autonomy · state power · resistance · propaganda · fearmongering · hierarchy · metagame · responsibility

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BZRK: Reloaded

Michael Grant · 2013 · BZRK

A shattered teen resistance fights a brain-hacking enemy in a high-tech war over free will and sanity.

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Themes labels: free will · control · morality · good and evil · sanity and madness · human cruelty · perseverance · sacrifice · leadership · identity · dehumanization · technology ethics · brainwashing · agency · violence · power · privacy · manipulation · responsibility

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 1972

A violent teen gang leader narrates his future world in slang, then faces state reconditioning and a fight over free will.

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Themes labels: free will · moral responsibility · good and evil · choice vs coercion · government control · violence · youth rebellion · rehabilitation · punishment · redemption · human nature · alienation · social decay · determinism · ethics · totalitarianism · original sin · censorship · identity

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Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick · 2002

A violent youth is forced through a state reform experiment, raising questions about free will, morality, and control.

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Themes labels: free will · evil · morality · violence · juvenile delinquency · punishment · reform · brainwashing · government power · social injustice · societal control · ethics · choice versus coercion · human nature · good and evil · retribution · identity · responsibility

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The Algebraist

Iain M. Banks · 2006

A human scholar among gas-giant aliens is pulled into a wormhole secret and a coming interstellar war.

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Themes labels: morality · moral relativism · authoritarianism · anti-authoritarianism · freedom · justice · war · violence · religion · bureaucracy · technology · AI oppression · civilizational stagnation · cultural difference · power · reputation · information control · time perception · imperialism · anarchy · death · trauma · survival · knowledge · truth · secrecy

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The Treatment

Sarah Moorhead · 2023

In a near-future justice system, a psychiatrist uncovers a flaw in a rehabilitation program that may let murderers slip through.

Why this is here

Themes labels: justice · rehabilitation · punishment · morality · ethics · revenge · crime and punishment · privacy · social control · trauma · addiction · poverty · capitalism · human rights · corruption · dehumanization · vigilantism · psychology · brain science · free will

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Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks · 1988 · Culture

A shape-shifting spy hunts a runaway AI across a galaxy-wide war between a utopian machine civilization and zealots.

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Themes labels: war · ideology · morality · humanity · free will · control · religion · technology · AI ethics · post-scarcity · power · futility · violence · identity · loyalty · empathy · civilizational conflict

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Distance: 0.1168

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