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Premise labels used: immortality research, AI emotions, posthuman survival, cannibalism pandemic, dystopian futures, late capitalism, technology and society, human-machine relations, environmental collapse

Themes labels used: 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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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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Premise labels: immortality · cloning · aging crisis · cult involvement · future humanity · human extinction · posthuman life · love and death · youth obsession · social critique

Themes labels: aging · death · immortality · loneliness · love · sex · desire · misanthropy · human condition · modern society · nihilism · meaning of life · religion · faith · technology and humanity · transhumanism · loss of youth · decadence · social decay · dehumanization · individualism · capitalism · loneliness versus connection · identity · free will · determinism · posthumanity

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Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

Blake Crouch · 2019

Six near-future sci-fi stories explore AI, apocalypse, genetics, memory, and quantum tech as tomorrow arrives too soon.

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Premise labels: future scenarios · technological change · catastrophic future · post-apocalyptic future · AI · quantum computing · genetic engineering · fertility technology · memory loss · human consciousness

Themes labels: humanity · hope · mortality · ethics of technology · identity · memory · free will · predetermination · grief · social criticism · race · eugenics · capitalism · class privilege · parenting · nature vs nurture

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Starość aksolotla

Jacek Dukaj · 2015

After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.

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Premise labels: global extinction · mind upload · digital survival · posthuman society · robot bodies · rebuilding civilization · body-soul question · humanity after apocalypse · virtual consciousness · machine habitation

Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · transhumanism · posthumanism · mind-body dualism · soul · identity · mortality · immortality · memory · culture · technology and humanity · progress · stagnation · civilization · meaning · existentialism · religion · ideology · capitalism · isolation · creation · survival · apocalypse · artificial intelligence

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Under the Blue

Oana Aristide · 2021

A reclusive artist crosses a ruined Europe with two sisters while scientists raise an AI to predict humanity’s fate.

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Premise labels: post-pandemic survival · AI prediction · end of the world · humanity’s future · ethical AI

Themes labels: ethics · humanity · survival · hope · despair · environmental destruction · climate crisis · ecological collapse · AI ethics · human nature · purpose · identity · morality · sacredness of life · responsibility · short-term thinking · self-destruction

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Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Premise labels: near future · nanotechnology · artificial intelligence · cancer cure · immortality · identity crisis · personhood · humanity question · AI learns poetry · memory transfer · body replacement · posthuman future

Themes labels: humanity · identity · consciousness · mortality · immortality · memory · language · translation · poetry · music · art · technology and humanity · personhood · love · survival · evolution · death · grief · loss · community · imperialism · racism · propaganda · transmission · selfhood · artistic creation · authorship · meaning of life · future of humanity · authentic self

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If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light

Kim Cho-yeop · 2026

Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.

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Premise labels: future futures · humanity and technology · first contact · space travel · alien encounter · mind upload · digital afterlife · ethics of technology · women-centered SF · marginalized perspectives

Themes labels: humanity · identity · belonging · connection · loneliness · grief · loss · memory · motherhood · parenthood · classism · misogyny · discrimination · bioethics · eugenics · transhumanism · empathy · legacy · imperfection · hope · melancholy · technological progress · limits of science · moral choice · utopia · alienness · translation of emotions

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Themes labels: humanity · evolution · survival · extinction · reproduction · ecology · technology vs nature · cloning · AI ethics · memory · identity · belonging · love · creation and destruction · community · collective life · faith · gender roles · destructive tendencies · species continuity

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Void Star

Zachary Mason · 2017

In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.

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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · memory implants · near-future dystopia · cyberpunk intrigue · wealth inequality · climate collapse · rogue AI · human-machine interface

Themes labels: memory · identity · mortality · immortality · consciousness · human nature · technology and power · inequality · class conflict · climate change · existence · privacy · control · alien intelligence

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Ken Liu · 2020

A linked speculative-fiction collection on memory, identity, technology, and family, spanning history, futures, and the Singularity.

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Premise labels: speculative futures · uploaded consciousness · posthumanism · family bonds · history and heritage · technology and society · alien contact · war and displacement · climate change · internet toxicity · art and AI · immigrant experience

Themes labels: identity · memory · heritage · culture clash · colonialism · empathy · humanity · embodiment · mortality · digital immortality · grief · truth and reality · technology ethics · freedom · resistance · art · social media · gun violence · climate change · refugees · war · moral ambiguity · transhumanism

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Children of the New World

Alexander Weinstein · 2016

A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.

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Premise labels: near future · technology dependence · virtual reality · manufactured memories · robot companions · climate collapse · social media implants · AI disruption · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: technology addiction · human connection · alienation · loneliness · memory and identity · reality vs simulation · surveillance · parenthood · grief · climate change · resource scarcity · commodification · consumerism · ethics of AI · social isolation · intimacy · transhumanism · dehumanization · communication breakdown · loss of childhood · class inequality · environmental collapse · moral tradeoffs

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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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Premise labels: animal uprising · post-fauna world · billionaire power · time machine · wealth inequality · climate collapse · grief economy · internet fame · young adulthood · romantic entanglement

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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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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Premise labels: cryogenic suspension · terminal illness · future cure · future wake-up · life extension · immortality dilemma · medical experiment · post-freeze society · body commodification · state control

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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