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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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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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Upgrade Soul

Ezra Claytan Daniels · 2018 · Upgrade Soul

An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · memory · aging · mortality · ethics · medical ethics · scientific ethics · transhumanism · selfhood · body image · beauty standards · disfigurement · disability · race · privilege · legacy · love · family · greed · selfishness · continuity of self · soul

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Leech

Hiron Ennes · 2022

A parasite-doctor in a frozen chateau investigates a death and encounters a rival infection threatening body and mind.

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Themes labels: identity · autonomy · bodily autonomy · consent · medical ethics · oppression · control · personhood · trauma · grooming · abuse · survival · decay · humanity · colonization · self-discovery · memory · loss of agency

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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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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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Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics · medical ethics · scientific responsibility · hubris · guilt · survival · autonomy · productivity culture · capitalism · disability · chronic illness · sleep · rest · memory · identity · personhood · othering · progress · greater good · ableism · sanity · madness · free will · body-mind divide

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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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Sever

Lauren DeStefano · 2013 · The Chemical Garden

A dying teen hunts for truth, family, and freedom while secrets, a cure, and old loyalties unravel around her.

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Themes labels: bodily autonomy · survival · hope · identity · parenthood · truth and secrecy · medical ethics · science vs nature · control · free will · family · moral grayness · loss · trauma · coming of age

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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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The Evening and the Morning and the Night

Octavia E. Butler · 1991 · Pulphouse Short Story Paperbacks

A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.

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Themes labels: genetic determinism · free will · agency · identity · social stigma · discrimination · medical ethics · bioethics · eugenics · isolation · community · responsibility · collective responsibility · self-determination · human dignity · mental illness · disability · inheritance · parent-child legacy · survival · compassion · belonging · autonomy · class stratification · feminism · racial discrimination · othering

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The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

Shelley Wood · 2024

A leap-year baby who ages four times slower hides in plain sight as her family races through a century of history.

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Themes labels: aging · longevity · family · secrecy · identity · belonging · love · duty · ethics · eugenics · genetics · scientific progress · body autonomy · women's rights · motherhood · difference and otherness · medical ethics · choice vs destiny

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