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Themes labels used: animal cruelty, ethics of science, vivisection, oppression, liberation, fascism, authoritarianism, genocide, war, brainwashing, collaboration, speciesism, human arrogance, environmental destruction, moral complicity, exploitation, dominion

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Besnilo

Borislav Pekić · 2002 · Besnilo – Atlantida – 1999

A rabies outbreak at Heathrow traps travelers and staff in a lethal quarantine as fear turns people against each other.

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Themes labels: human nature · fear · violence · dehumanization · survival · civilization · morality · science and ethics · good and evil · social critique · human cruelty · apocalypse · collective guilt · marginalization · responsibility · nature versus civilization · panic · isolation · humanity versus animality

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Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov, Михаил Булгаков, Michail Bulgakov · 1990

A starving Moscow stray becomes the subject of a reckless experiment, with grotesque and satirical fallout.

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Themes labels: human nature · ethics · science and morality · social engineering · revolution · class struggle · bureaucracy · power abuse · freedom · identity · civilization · responsibility · eugenics · terror · dehumanization · social hypocrisy · transformation · ruin from within

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Wrath

Shäron Moalem, Daniel Kraus · 2022

A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.

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Themes labels: animal rights · ethics of science · scientific hubris · greed · consumerism · morality · intelligence and consciousness · human cruelty · companion animals · class of beings · responsibility · revenge · community

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Now We Are Animals

R.P. Nathan · 2021 · The Colonists

A teen girl’s journals reveal life as a human pet under alien colonizers and her growing resistance.

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Themes labels: anthropocentrism · colonization · slavery · cultural erasure · animal rights · veganism · meat industry · environmentalism · human responsibility · sentience · cognitive dissonance · creativity · humanity · oppression · resistance · freedom · identity · moral equivalence · commodification of beings

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Why Don't We Just Kill The Kid in the Omelas Hole

Isabel J. Kim · 2024

A modern, sardonic response to Omelas asks what happens if the city keeps replacing its suffering child.

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Themes labels: complicity · systemic cruelty · utilitarianism · civil disobedience · morality · greater good · ignorance · hypocrisy · fascism · social responsibility · state violence · collective guilt · compromised utopia · modern outrage · ethical ambiguity · action vs withdrawal

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Cover of The Message by K.A. Applegate

The Message

K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate · 1996 · Animorphs

Cassie follows a shared ocean dream into a dangerous undersea rescue that could change the team forever.

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Themes labels: animal intelligence · ethics · morality · consent · responsibility · leadership · war ethics · environmental stewardship · species boundaries · humanity · sacrifice · compassion · ecological destruction

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Catseye

Andre Norton · 1984 · Dipple

A displaced young laborer lands a pet-shop job and discovers he can telepathically join a conspiracy with unusual animals.

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Themes labels: freedom · captivity · oppression · class struggle · prejudice · animal rights · species equality · self-determination · ethics · honor · compassion · exploitation · war displacement · environmentalism · interdependence · resistance · survival · belonging

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Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 2

Gamon Sakurai · 2014 · 亜人 [Ajin]

A hunted immortal teen is captured for experiments and pulled deeper into the hidden world of demi-humans.

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Themes labels: humanity · dehumanization · ethics · fear · identity · otherness · persecution · scientific abuse · survival · morality · revenge · choice · sympathy for the outsider · monstrosity · institutional cruelty

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Cover of Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica · 2020

In a virus-ravaged future, a meat-plant worker is forced to process humans as food—and to face what that normal has cost.

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Themes labels: dehumanization · cognitive dissonance · factory farming · animal cruelty · capitalism · consumerism · ethics · power · desensitization · language and euphemism · humanity · survival · social complicity · moral collapse

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Il richiamo del corno

Sarban · 2015

A traumatized British POW wakes in a Nazi-dominated future and must survive a grotesque hunting estate.

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Themes labels: authoritarianism · fascism · dehumanization · cruelty · sadism · eugenics · hunting · power and control · trauma · sanity and madness · sexual violence · human animal boundary · morality · history as nightmare · postwar anxiety

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