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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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Cover of The Sleepless by Victor Manibo

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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Cover of Every Version of You by Grace Chan

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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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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Cover of Los tiempos del odio by Rosa Montero

Los tiempos del odio

Rosa Montero · 2018 · Bruna Husky

A replicant detective races to find a missing loved one while a dystopian society edges toward collapse.

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Themes labels: death · mortality · love · hope · hate · power · corruption · social inequality · technology · humanity · identity · freedom · democracy · fanaticism · religious extremism · political violence · climate crisis · environmental collapse · capitalism · memory · compassion · solidarity · transhumanism · dehumanization

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Cover of Arborescence by Rhett Davis

Arborescence

Rhett Davis · 2026

In a near-future world, a couple is divided by a spreading movement of people trying to become trees.

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Themes labels: humanity · nature versus technology · climate anxiety · environmental destruction · identity · change · loss · grief · hope · ethics · purpose · capitalism · alienation · consumerism · AI · human responsibility · self-sacrifice · mass participation · belonging · post-humanism

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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 Familiar Face by Michael DeForge

Familiar Face

Michael DeForge · 2020

A complaint-reader in a constantly updating future searches for connection in a surreal, technocratic world that rewrites people and places.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · change · adaptation · alienation · loneliness · human connection · control · autonomy · bureaucracy · technology · capitalism · efficiency · optimization · surveillance · power · resistance · grief · love · online life · consumerism · depersonalization · emotional labor

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Cover of Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado

Time's Agent

Brenda Peynado · 2024

An archaeologist in a future Dominican Republic loses 40 years in a pocket world and returns to a changed, corporate-dominated reality.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · time · capitalism · colonialism · environmental collapse · climate crisis · commodification · exploitation · motherhood · redemption · hope · regret · scientific ethics · colonization of knowledge · personhood · resource extraction · consumerism · human greed · collective harm

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Cover of Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Bubblegum

Adam Levin · 2020

In an alternate America without the internet, a misfit memoirist navigates a strange tech culture, family, and an eerie gift.

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Themes labels: technology · consumerism · loneliness · belonging · alienation · mental illness · human connection · sentience · empathy · cruelty · violence · art · memory · class difference · wealth gap · adulthood · childhood · self-knowledge · social commentary · morality · loss · grief · capitalism

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Cover of Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu

Jewel Box

E. Lily Yu · 2023

A 22-story speculative collection of fairy-tale, fable, sci-fi, and horror tales exploring power, grief, and hope.

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Themes labels: power · justice · injustice · imperialism · colonialism · racism · xenophobia · class inequality · capitalism · climate change · grief · loss · hope · resilience · survival · belonging · marginalization · patriarchy · technology · art · morality · freedom · anarchy · human nature

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Cover of Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

Remember You Will Die

Eden Robins · 2024

An AI mother searches for the truth behind her human daughter’s death through a web of obituaries across time.

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Themes labels: grief · mortality · humanity · identity · memory · legacy · art · climate change · activism · ethics · consciousness · responsibility · history · connection · loss · hope · capitalism · respectability · queerness · Jewishness · belonging

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Cover of Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Blake Crouch

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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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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