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Themes labels used: climate crisis, capitalism, consumerism, fame, wealth, social media, reality TV, grief, trauma, belief, religion, humanism, existentialism, environmentalism, escape, ambition, meaning, identity, love, loss, maturity, parental influence, late capitalism, eco-anxiety, classism, racism, fatphobia, settling for life

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Something New Under the Sun

Alexandra Kleeman · 2021

A novelist in near-future Los Angeles uncovers a corporate water conspiracy while his film adaptation and family life unravel.

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Themes labels: climate crisis · environmental collapse · capitalism · consumerism · corporate corruption · media corruption · celebrity culture · ambition · ambition and compromise · truth and illusion · reality distortion · complicity · eco-anxiety · human insignificance · late capitalism · information overload · control and helplessness · connectedness · social decay · apocalypse

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A Better World

Sarah Langan · 2024

A family enters a supposedly perfect company town where safety, privilege, and belonging come with eerie rules.

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Themes labels: wealth inequality · power · privilege · conformity · corporate greed · social decay · environmental collapse · climate anxiety · survival · family loyalty · belonging · alienation · authenticity · mob mentality · toxic positivity · control · secrecy · complicity · bullying · class stratification · religion · community · sanity · fear · propaganda

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Planetes, Volume 1

Makoto Yukimura · 2003 · Planetes

Near-future space debris collectors confront grief, ambition, and everyday life in a realistic Earth-orbit workplace.

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Themes labels: humanity · space exploration · environmentalism · resource depletion · consumerism · capitalism · purpose · ambition · loneliness · grief · loss · existentialism · morality · love · hope · terrorism · class · global warming · space colonialism · racism · mental health

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I Am the Ghost Here

Kim Samek · 2026

A debut collection of surreal stories where women face climate, tech, and family crises through strange bodily transformations.

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Themes labels: climate change · capitalism · technology · social media · reality television · motherhood · chronic illness · disability · loneliness · existential dread · identity · bodily autonomy · family tension · grief · consumerism · algorithms · surveillance · human connection · labor · feminism

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In Persuasion Nation

George Saunders · 2006

A short story collection using surreal satire to probe consumerism, media, fear, and fragile humanity in American life.

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Themes labels: consumerism · capitalism · marketing · advertising · media influence · technology · conformity · humanity · compassion · hope · fearmongering · alienation · belonging · grief · identity · homophobia · same-sex marriage · social criticism · moral courage · ordinary life

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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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Hell's Heart

Alexis Hall · 2026

A queer, horny space-whaling memoir sends an indebted narrator into Jupiter’s storms after a feared leviathan.

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Themes labels: obsession · revenge · survival · capitalism · religion · anti-capitalism · bodily autonomy · selfhood · identity · desire · power · class · religious trauma · consumerism · debt · freedom · mutual aid · self-destruction · humanity · love and being loved

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Mood Swings

Frankie Barnet · 2024

In a post-fauna world, two young women navigate grief, love, and absurd survival as a billionaire promises a time machine.

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Themes labels: climate change · late-stage capitalism · wealth inequality · power and control · gender economy · malaise · apathy · existential dread · grief · loneliness · alienation · modern disaffection · body autonomy · cancel culture · social media · tech monopoly · human condition · futility · hope and despair · collective responsibility

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The Sleepless

Victor Manibo · 2022

A Sleepless journalist probes his boss’s death in a near-future world where sleeplessness reshapes power, work, and memory.

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Themes labels: 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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Time's Agent

Brenda Peynado · 2024

An archaeologist in a future Dominican Republic loses 40 years in a pocket world and returns to a changed, corporate-dominated reality.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · time · capitalism · colonialism · environmental collapse · climate crisis · commodification · exploitation · motherhood · redemption · hope · regret · scientific ethics · colonization of knowledge · personhood · resource extraction · consumerism · human greed · collective harm

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