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Themes labels used: 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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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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The Loosening Skin

Aliya Whiteley · 2018

In a world where skin-shedding erases love, a woman with a rare condition is pulled into a stolen-skins mystery.

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Themes labels: love · loss · identity · change · memory · attachment · desire · emotional autonomy · bodily autonomy · selfhood · transience · renewal · loneliness · friendship · relationships · commitment · letting go · reinvention · human condition

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Cover of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop

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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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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Luminous

Silvia Park · 2025

In near-future reunified Korea, estranged siblings and a found robot child collide amid a murder case and family secrets.

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Themes labels: humanity · personhood · identity · memory · grief · loss · family estrangement · connection · ethics · agency · autonomy · technology and humanity · robot rights · body and identity · gender · queerness · disability · chronic illness · war trauma · moral ambiguity · capitalism · consumerism · social inequality · class hierarchy · exploitation · violence · love · authenticity · memory and selfhood · creation and control · religion · salvation · posthumanism

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Cover of The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

The Child Garden

Geoff Ryman · 2005

In a biotech future London, an immune young woman’s life is transformed by art, love, and a society that edits people by virus.

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Themes labels: individuality · conformity · creativity · art · music · love · freedom · memory · identity · biology · politics · language · humanity · death · mortality · childhood · change · knowledge · education · social control · sexuality · queer identity · sameness vs difference · cost of progress · body autonomy · community · hope

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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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Cover of My Dear You by Rachel Khong

My Dear You

Rachel Khong · 2026

A themed short story collection where surreal premises probe love, identity, race, and what it means to be human.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · race · gender · belonging · loneliness · connection · love · friendship · marriage · dating · childlessness · grief · memory · capitalism · immigration · racism · humanity · transformation · death · afterlife · social commentary · womanhood · technology

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Cover of The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

The Terracotta Bride

Zen Cho · 2016

In a bureaucratic Chinese hell, a young wife meets her husband’s new terracotta bride and is drawn into love and upheaval.

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Themes labels: love · death · reincarnation · personhood · identity · soul · freedom · agency · patriarchy · corruption · bureaucracy · female empowerment · self-knowledge · acceptance · mortality · humanity · social inequality · first love · belief and theology · memory · choice · afterlife ethics

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Cover of UnWorld by Jayson Greene

UnWorld

Jayson Greene · 2025

In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · personhood · consciousness · identity · humanity · autonomy · AI ethics · suicide · addiction · loneliness · mental health · mourning · technology and intimacy · digital age · motherhood · parenting · selfhood · attachment · mortality · data and privacy · class and access · civil rights

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Cover of The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle

The New Voices of Fantasy

Peter S. Beagle, Usman T. Malik, Carmen Maria Machado, Eugene Fischer, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Kelly Sandoval, J.Y. Yang · 2017

A curated anthology of 19 contemporary fantasy stories showcasing rising voices, weird premises, and genre-bending moods.

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Themes labels: identity · otherness · desire · loneliness · loss · abandonment · family trauma · secrecy · trust · consent · gender politics · feminism · queerness · belonging · risk · fate · choice · human nature · mortality · coming of age · work/life tension · society · alienation · freedom · monstrosity

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