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Themes labels used: time as commodity, commodification, medical ethics, corporate greed, capitalism critique, identity, memory loss, aging, caregiving, moral responsibility, science and ethics, power imbalance

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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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The Nano Flower

Peter F. Hamilton · 1999 · Greg Mandel

A retired psychic detective is pulled into a corporate and alien-tech race when a billionaire receives an impossible flower.

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Themes labels: corporate power · capitalism · politics · economics · environmental collapse · global warming · technology ethics · alien contact · identity · aging · change over time · social commentary · social control · information scarcity · moral ambiguity

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Cover of Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team by Cullen Bunn

Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team

Cullen Bunn · 2021 · Cyberpunk 2077

A Trauma Team medic must rescue a paying client who is also tied to her worst loss, forcing duty against revenge.

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Themes labels: corporate capitalism · commodified care · human life value · ethics versus pragmatism · dehumanization · survivor guilt · trauma · PTSD · revenge · duty versus conscience · moral compromise · social inequality

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The Franchise

Thomas Elrod · 2026

A studio turns a beloved fantasy franchise into a living world, where hidden truth, memory tech, and greed collide.

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Themes labels: capitalism · greed · ethics · identity · memory · performance · agency · free will · media criticism · fandom · authenticity · art vs commerce · exploitation · control · consent · technology · reality and illusion · morality · social commentary · corporate power

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CryoBurn

Lois McMaster Bujold · 2010 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

Miles audits a cryonics empire on a strange planet, uncovering corruption, kidnappings, and a deadly conspiracy.

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Themes labels: mortality · immortality · cryonics ethics · technology and society · corporate power · corruption · grief · legacy · aging · death anxiety · identity · money and power · morality of survival · political control · resource inequality

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Architects of Memory

Karen Osborne · 2020 · The Memory War

An indentured salvage pilot racing a terminal illness uncovers alien tech that could save her—or turn her into a weapon.

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Themes labels: corporate greed · classism · capitalism critique · citizenship · debt slavery · indenture · healthcare access · terminal illness · truth and lies · loyalty · trust · war · genocide · humanity · colonization · privilege · power dynamics · immigration · dehumanization · morality · profit motive

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Freezing Point

Anders Bodelsen · 1971

A terminally ill editor chooses cryogenic suspension, then wakes into a bleak future where survival has a dangerous price.

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Themes labels: mortality · aging · immortality · quality of life · life versus eternity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · capitalism · class divide · consumer capitalism · social control · surveillance · human connection · love and loss · meaning of life · death acceptance · commodification of life · technological progress · scientific hubris · ethical consent · social inequality · freedom · state ownership · existentialism · nihilism · identity loss · senescence

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Time Salvager

Wesley Chu · 2015 · Time Salvager

A burned-out time salvager breaks the rules by rescuing a woman from the past, triggering a deadly chase across eras.

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Themes labels: survival · environmental collapse · resource depletion · corporate greed · moral compromise · free will · cost of progress · time ethics · guilt · redemption · humanity's future · power and control · class divide · responsibility to history

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The Body Scout

Lincoln Michel · 2021

A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.

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Themes labels: capitalism · commodification of bodies · humanity · personhood · class inequality · medical debt · corporate greed · body autonomy · ethics of enhancement · identity · family · addiction · consumerism · sports and society · science and morality · environmental collapse · racism · xenophobia · disability · freedom · surveillance · labor exploitation

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Cover of Dead Space by Kali Wallace

Dead Space

Kali Wallace · 2021

A traumatized, indebted AI expert investigates a murder on a remote asteroid mine and uncovers a deeper corporate conspiracy.

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Themes labels: corporate greed · capitalism critique · unchecked capitalism · medical debt · indentured servitude · surveillance · trauma aftermath · PTSD · disability · body autonomy · AI ethics · consciousness · war crimes · genocide · class exploitation · human-machine boundary · privatized space · social commentary

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