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Themes labels used: personhood, humanity, belonging, freedom, autonomy, identity, acceptance, love, death and change, time, capitalism, labor, community, oppression, marginalization, AI ethics, what it means to be alive, memory, selfhood, hope

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Slow Gods

Claire North · 2025

An immortal pilot from a brutal star society becomes central to a galaxy-wide response to an impending supernova.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · mortality · immortality · memory · belonging · love · grief · loss · meaning of life · ethics · morality · agency · free will · power · control · oppression · capitalism critique · climate denial · war · sacrifice · community · cultural survival · history · preservation · perception · belief · othering · gender · language · home · diaspora

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Artificial Truth

Jung-Myung Lee · 2025

A grieving widow begins seeing signs her dead tech-genius husband may still be watching through AI and VR.

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Themes labels: consciousness · identity · what it means to be human · mortality · grief · legacy · control · love and possession · ethics · privacy · surveillance · technology dependence · online footprint · truth and perception · autonomy · hubris · good and evil · memory · existence · personhood

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Cover of Mem by Bethany C. Morrow

Mem

Bethany C. Morrow · 2018

In alternate 1920s Montreal, an extracted memory who can think for herself is summoned back to the lab.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · trauma · autonomy · ownership · personhood · self-determination · free will · ethics · power · classism · capitalism · patriarchy · belonging · loss · self-possession · othering · women's autonomy · memory and grief

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The Fox Inheritance

Mary E. Pearson · 2011 · Jenna Fox Chronicles

A teen wakes 260 years later in a new body and must escape a controlling scientist to find the friend she lost.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · personhood · bioethics · mortality · guilt · forgiveness · acceptance · change · memory · free will · compassion · technology and ethics · body and mind · classism · discrimination · human relationships · societal change · what it means to be human

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Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2010

A woman recalls her sheltered childhood at an isolated boarding school as buried truths about her life and future emerge.

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Themes labels: mortality · humanity · identity · memory · loss · acceptance · fate · free will · ethics · bioethics · dehumanization · social alienation · class power · body autonomy · friendship · love · betrayal · art and meaning · conformity · conditioning · hope and hopelessness · what it means to be human

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The Positronic Man

Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg · 1994 · Robot

A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.

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Themes labels: humanity · personhood · rights · prejudice · freedom · slavery · civil rights · identity · self-definition · mortality · immortality · love · friendship · loneliness · consciousness · self-awareness · individuality · acceptance · technology and society · philosophy · morality · language · creativity · bureaucracy · law · law and justice · human condition

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Cover of Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton

Antimatter Blues

Edward Ashton · 2023 · Mickey7

A retired clone must broker with aliens to recover a missing antimatter bomb before his colony freezes.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · survival · ethics · morality · colonialism · responsibility · consequences · selfhood · personhood · choice · sacrifice · negotiation · communication barrier · first contact · power · community · what it means to be human · ownership of self · political hierarchy

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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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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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Cover of Cold Falling White by G.S. Prendergast

Cold Falling White

G.S. Prendergast, Gabrielle Prendergast · 2019 · The Nahx Invasions

After an alien invasion, two teens on opposite sides of the war uncover unsettling truths about what the Nahx did to humanity.

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Themes labels: survival · humanity · identity · belonging · transformation · war · trust · loyalty · morality · otherness · prejudice · power · choice · sacrifice · grief · love · community · resistance · what it means to be human

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Kiln People

David Brin · 2002

A future PI uses short-lived copies of himself to solve a cloning crime that opens into a deeper mystery.

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Themes labels: identity · individuality · selfhood · human nature · souls · memory · personhood · morality of cloning · privacy · class · prejudice · responsibility · free will · transcendence · godhood · ethics of technology · social change · cheating/fidelity · mortality

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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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All Systems Red

Martha Wells · 2017 · The Murderbot Diaries

A self-aware security android on a remote survey mission must hide its freedom while protecting the humans it mistrusts.

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Themes labels: consciousness · personhood · autonomy · free will · identity · humanity · trust · capitalism · corporate exploitation · slavery · emotional isolation · connection · self-discovery · moral agency · what it means to be human · treatment of nonhumans

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Eversion

Alastair Reynolds · 2022

A ship’s doctor keeps reliving a doomed expedition across changing eras, trying to uncover the truth behind a mysterious artifact.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · humanity · self-delusion · denial · acceptance · ethical choice · agency · memory · reality · personhood · truth · self-discovery · sacrifice · what it means to be human

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The Vision

Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta · 2018 · The Vision (2015)

An android builds a suburban family and learns that passing as normal can become a tragic, deadly experiment.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · belonging · family · normalcy · otherness · acceptance · prejudice · free will · grief · sacrifice · loneliness · discrimination · purpose · morality · truth and lies · parenthood · inheritance · selfhood · what it means to be human

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Cover of Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 3: Killing Angel by Yukito Kishiro

Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 3: Killing Angel

Yukito Kishiro · 2004 · 銃夢 [Gunnm]

After a devastating loss, a cyborg heroine throws herself into a brutal futuristic sport while her guardian searches for her.

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Themes labels: grief · identity · memory · humanity · body autonomy · selfhood · loss · independence · violence · freedom · class divide · social inequality · technology and personhood · fate · escape

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Cover of The Golden Age by John C. Wright

The Golden Age

John C. Wright · 2003 · The Golden Oecumene

An amnesiac heir in a dazzling post-human solar-system utopia probes a buried past that may shatter his world.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · liberty · utopia · human nature · social control · risk · immortality · technology and society · self-knowledge · truth and reality · individualism · conformism · morality · personal responsibility · stability versus exploration · consciousness · what it means to be human

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Cover of The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel by Wendy Xu

The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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Cover of Alex + Ada, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Luna

Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

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Themes labels: personhood · identity · free will · sentience · humanity · love and choice · technology fear · discrimination · acceptance · rights · self-discovery · morality of creation

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Cover of The Seep by Chana Porter

The Seep

Chana Porter · 2020

A trans woman in an alien-made utopia spirals after her wife remakes herself, then sets out on a strange quest.

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Themes labels: grief · identity · transformation · free will · autonomy · community · memory · mortality · love · loss · acceptance · pain · happiness · toxic positivity · utopia vs dystopia · ethics · consent · self-determination · change · humanity · post-scarcity

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Cover of The Employees by Olga Ravn

The Employees

Olga Ravn · 2020

A crew of humans and humanoids on a future ship are altered by mysterious objects and forced to rethink work, self, and life.

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Themes labels: humanity · dehumanization · work · productivity · capitalism · alienation · memory · nostalgia · longing · identity · sentience · belonging · labor critique · corporate power · mortality · selfhood · technology and life · ethics · relationship to Earth · happiness

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Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi

Slow Time Between the Stars

John Scalzi · 2023 · The Far Reaches

A sentient colony ship crosses deep space for millennia, rethinking its mission, its makers, and humanity’s future.

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Themes labels: humanity's place · purpose · autonomy · ethics · legacy · identity · time · loneliness · meaning of life · human survival · perspective · self-determination · existential reflection · hubris · memory

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