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Themes labels used: disability, bodily autonomy, accessibility, love and acceptance, identity, agency, medical ethics, caregiving, persistence, social stigma, humanity and machine, exploration, duty, plague prevention, doing what is right

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Cover of Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton

Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

Arwen Elys Dayton · 2018

Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · perfection · power · privilege · class inequality · bodily autonomy · identity · morality · eugenics · technology and society · medical ethics · social control · discrimination · life and death · progress and consequences · vanity · fear of change · human nature

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World Running Down

Al Hess · 2023

A trans salvager chases city citizenship and gender-affirming care, then a job and an AI companion complicate everything.

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Themes labels: bodily autonomy · identity · sentience · personhood · free will · consent · gender dysphoria · trans joy · trans pain · self-determination · class inequality · liberation · community · kindness · humanity · social justice · access to healthcare · prejudice · neurodivergence

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Labyrinth

Lois McMaster Bujold · 2009 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

Miles takes a covert rescue job on a corrupt world, only to confront genetic exploitation and an unlikely ally.

Why this is here

Themes labels: normalcy · difference · humanity · identity · acceptance · self-acceptance · disability · genetic engineering · ethics · exploitation · personal autonomy · dignity · class inequality · body image · othering · morality · free will

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Machine

Elizabeth Bear · 2020 · White Space

A space-rescue doctor investigates a bizarre deep-space accident that threatens an interspecies hospital and its AIs.

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Themes labels: personhood · AI rights · medical ethics · free will · collective responsibility · belief · faith · community · class inequality · disability · chronic illness · ethics of treatment · cognitive autonomy

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The Speed of Dark

Elizabeth Moon · 2003

An autistic man in a near-future workplace faces pressure to accept an experimental cure that could change who he is.

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Themes labels: normality · identity · selfhood · disability rights · medicalization · acceptance · humanity · choice and consent · sensory experience · prejudice · change · autonomy · neurodiversity · ethics

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Cover of Claiming His Mate by A.G. Wilde

Claiming His Mate

A.G. Wilde · 2023 · Fated Mates of the Atari

A disabled human woman’s free space cruise turns deadly when an alien warrior claims her as his fated mate.

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Themes labels: disability representation · ableism · self-worth · worthiness · trust · consent · deception · survival · trauma · healing · protection · class inequality · oppression · identity · belonging

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Cover of The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

The Ship Who Sang

Anne McCaffrey · 1985 · Brainship

A disabled girl becomes the mind of a starship and navigates missions, love, grief, and the ethics of her existence.

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Themes labels: disability · eugenics · personhood · humanity · grief · loss · love · agency · consent · ethics · identity · bodily autonomy · social worth · companionate love · art and music · gender roles · alienation · growth · choice

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Cover of UnSouled by Neal Shusterman

UnSouled

Neal Shusterman · 2013 · Unwind Dystology

Fugitive teens chase answers about unwinding while converging plots, shifting loyalties, and hidden history reshape everything.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · personhood · ethics · morality · political power · social control · body autonomy · human rights · sacrifice · parental choice · class inequality · disposability · hope · fear · coming of age · responsibility · conscience · corruption · resistance · propaganda · corporate power · government power · moral ambiguity · existentialism

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Cover of The Companions by Katie M. Flynn

The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification

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Cover of To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

To Paradise

Hanya Yanagihara · 2022

Three linked stories across centuries trace alternate Americas shaped by love, illness, power, and the search for paradise.

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Themes labels: freedom · utopia · identity · class inequality · race · colonialism · illness · disability · AIDS · pandemics · family · nationhood · love · loneliness · shame · fear · wealth and poverty · survival · belonging · loss · privilege · civil liberties · activism · oppression · migration · mourning · health and medicine

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Every Version of You

Grace Chan · 2022

In a climate-damaged near-future Australia, a woman must choose between a virtual future and the physical ties that anchor her.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · consciousness · mortality · grief · loss · climate change · technology · capitalism · class inequality · embodiment · authenticity · migration · diaspora · belonging · memory · ethics · disability · aging · mental health · consumerism · privacy · consent · social responsibility · surveillance · progress · transhumanism

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