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Themes labels used: ethics, humanity, compassion, scientific responsibility, moral dilemma, progress, prejudice, otherness, dehumanization, love, sacrifice, identity, child welfare, time travel consequences, classical humanism

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · nature versus nurture · free will · individuality · self-determination · prejudice · slavery · power · corruption · dehumanization · human rights · belonging · acceptance · loyalty · morality · ethics of cloning · survival · compassion · empathy · immortality · addiction · sacrifice · predestination

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · survival · family · moral ambiguity · species rights · othering · prejudice · corporate greed · scientific responsibility · power abuse · compromise · acceptance · motherhood · coming of age · apocalypse ethics · nature vs nurture

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The Quantum Garden

Derek Künsken · 2019 · The Quantum Evolution

A quantum-savvy con man must use stolen time gates to save his people while outrunning paradox, enemies, and guilt.

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Themes labels: responsibility · consequences · morality · identity · personhood · agency · free will · ethics of time travel · genocide · survival · posthumanity · politics · trust · guilt

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Themes labels: humanity · ethics of science · hubris · responsibility · othering · isolation · loneliness · rejection · prejudice · ambition · good and evil · monstrosity · social influence · knowledge and consequences · mourning · revenge · identity · acceptance · nature of evil

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Cover of Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer

Rollback

Robert J. Sawyer · 2007

An elderly SETI scientist gets a shot at youth to decode an alien message, but the procedure changes only her husband.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · aging · ageism · life extension · humanity · responsibility · identity · mortality · love and loyalty · technology and ethics · first contact ethics · family consequences · sexuality · reproductive rights · social inequality · science and society · cultural change · parenting · faith and religion · abortion · scientific progress · human evolution · species ethics

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Meru

S.B. Divya · 2023 · The Alloy Era

A human raised by posthuman parents tests whether her species can live on a new world—while falling for her pilot.

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Themes labels: humanity · posthumanism · ecological stewardship · environmental responsibility · redemption · aspiration · compassion · identity · belonging · prejudice · discrimination · class hierarchy · genetic engineering · free will · agency · colonialism · resource use · species relations · ambition vs restraint · what makes us human · ethics · consciousness · second chances · self-acceptance · community · love and sacrifice · future of humanity

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Parasyte, Volume 3

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 2008 · Parasyte (8 Volumes Edition)

A teen partially infected by a parasite struggles to stay human as a hidden alien threat spreads through his school.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · moral ambiguity · survival · coexistence · empathy · dehumanization · instinct versus reason · public fear · societal response · nature versus humanity · loss and grief · ethics of violence · otherness

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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card · 1996 · Ender's Saga

On a doomed colony world, Ender and allies race to avert extinction while a virus, aliens, and faith collide.

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Themes labels: ethics · morality · free will · determinism · religion · faith · science and religion · consciousness · sentience · identity · humanity · otherness · prejudice · coexistence · survival · sacrifice · responsibility · good and evil · parental duty · community

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The Boy on the Bridge

M.R. Carey · 2017 · The Girl With All the Gifts

A scientist-led expedition in a zombie-plagued Britain searches for a cure while a brilliant boy discovers something the others miss.

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Themes labels: humanity · survival · sacrifice · personhood · love · hope · scientific ethics · social prejudice · ableism · bullying · cooperation · betrayal · moral ambiguity · leadership · identity · endurance

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