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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 The Merge by Grace Walker

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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Cover of Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson

Fox Forever

Mary E. Pearson · 2013 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A young man with a bioengineered body goes undercover for the resistance and falls for the official’s daughter.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · redemption · hope · prejudice · discrimination · social inequality · morality · bioethics · medical ethics · freedom · citizenship · belonging · love vs duty

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Distance: 0.1392

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Cover of The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel by Wendy Xu

The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

Why this is here

Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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Distance: 0.1429

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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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Distance: 0.1145

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Cover of Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

Good Deeds

Kathryn Moon · 2019

A stranded alien scavenger trades repairs for shelter in an android brothel, and accidental heat sparks unexpected love.

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Themes labels: freedom · agency · consent · self-determination · personhood · human rights · sex work · objectification · independence · belonging · love and labor · ethics of AI · identity · programming vs choice · ownership · body autonomy · exploitation · emotional attachment

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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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Perilous Waif

E. William Brown · 2017 · Alice Long

An unusually gifted orphan flees a controlled upbringing and finds herself pulled into a dangerous far-future crew.

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Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · coming of age · freedom · personhood · AI rights · transhumanism · ethics of modification · sexuality · loyalty · agency · survival · social prejudice · slavery · power and responsibility

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Cover of Fever by Lauren DeStefano

Fever

Lauren DeStefano · 2012 · The Chemical Garden

On the run after escaping captivity, Rhine and Gabriel face new horrors while racing toward Manhattan and a missing brother.

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Themes labels: freedom · captivity · oppression · survival · sexual exploitation · bodily autonomy · trauma · hope · despair · feminist issues · medical ethics · power · identity · family · mortality · resource scarcity · choice · agency

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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Themes labels: privacy · bodily autonomy · freedom · control · identity · memory · grief · trauma · mental health · loneliness · connection · autonomy · technology ethics · surveillance · capitalism · political control · public safety · personhood · free will · dementia · truth versus false memory · collectivism · individualism

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Cover of Engineering Fate by Alexis B. Osborne

Engineering Fate

Alexis B. Osborne · 2021 · Outer Limits Quadrant

A human engineer stranded in alien space teams with an undercover peacekeeper to survive captivity, trafficking, and forbidden attraction.

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Themes labels: survival · bodily autonomy · consent · trauma · objectification · otherness · self-reliance · trust · freedom · commodification of sentient beings · political corruption · class oppression

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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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Distance: 0.1571

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