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Themes labels used: immortality, aging, ambition, success, power, betrayal, ethics, fame, money, legacy, gender in STEM, women in STEM, class difference, parental approval, identity, obsession, pressure, science vs business, morality, expectations vs reality

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Cover of Dragonfly Girl: A Spellbinding YA Science Thriller About a Cure for Death and Deadly International Rivalry by Marti Leimbach

Dragonfly Girl: A Spellbinding YA Science Thriller About a Cure for Death and Deadly International Rivalry

Marti Leimbach · 2021

A brilliant but socially isolated teen wins a science prize, then a lab discovery pulls her into dangerous international intrigue.

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Themes labels: STEM · women in science · science ethics · life and death · mortality · identity · belonging · class and money · financial precarity · caregiving · loyalty · truth and deception · trust · ambition · power and corruption · academic pressure · coming of age · parentification · moral courage

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Trouble with Lichen

John Wyndham · 1960

A biochemist’s anti-aging discovery sparks secrecy, gender politics, and a debate over who gets to live longer.

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Themes labels: aging · mortality · immortality · gender roles · feminism · scientific ethics · social consequences · inequality · class privilege · overpopulation · career vs family · public reaction to innovation · power and access · women’s autonomy · modernity · human nature

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Farside

Ben Bova · 2013 · The Grand Tour

On the Moon’s far side, rival teams race to finish an observatory and capture proof of a potentially habitable exoplanet.

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Themes labels: ambition · scientific discovery · human nature · politics vs science · money and fame · power · competition · exploration · institutional pressure · gender dynamics · ethics of technology · collaboration · prejudice

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Cover of The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley by Shelley Wood

The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

Shelley Wood · 2024

A leap-year baby who ages four times slower hides in plain sight as her family races through a century of history.

Why this is here

Themes labels: aging · longevity · family · secrecy · identity · belonging · love · duty · ethics · eugenics · genetics · scientific progress · body autonomy · women's rights · motherhood · difference and otherness · medical ethics · choice vs destiny

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Cover of Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel

Starclimber

Kenneth Oppel · 2008 · Matt Cruse

A young pilot joins a perilous first voyage into space, where rivalries, romance, and sabotage threaten survival.

Why this is here

Themes labels: ambition · coming of age · class and privilege · women's suffrage · gender roles · scientific discovery · exploration · survival · duty vs desire · identity and maturity · love vs career · heroism · independence · social convention · risk and sacrifice

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Cover of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu

Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death

Amy Chu · 2016 · Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death

Poison Ivy takes a lab job in Gotham, but when coworkers start dying, she must solve the mystery and protect her research.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · redemption · second chances · motherhood · loneliness · science ethics · gendered sexism · misogyny in STEM · human vs nature · belonging · selfhood · career vs family · moral neutrality

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Navola

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2024

A reluctant heir in a Renaissance-inspired city-state must navigate family power, intrigue, and a strange dragon relic.

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Themes labels: power · ambition · inheritance · legacy · betrayal · deception · innocence lost · coming of age · duty · family obligation · moral compromise · wealth and influence · political corruption · survival · identity · free will · nature vs civilization · cost of power · gendered power · class power

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Cover of Origin by Jessica Khoury

Origin

Jessica Khoury · 2012 · Corpus

An immortal teen raised in a secret Amazon lab escapes the fence and uncovers dangerous truths about herself.

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Themes labels: immortality · ethics of science · morality · freedom · identity · self-discovery · coming of age · truth and lies · humanity · choice · sacrifice · belonging · knowledge vs ignorance · love versus duty · colonization · classism · racism · eugenics · perfection · nature vs science · loss of innocence · power and control

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Cover of Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2025

An original 1818 Gothic classic where a scientist creates life, then faces the human cost of abandonment.

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Themes labels: ambition · isolation · moral responsibility · unchecked science · creation and destruction · loneliness · rejection · otherness · identity · humanity · monstrosity · nature vs nurture · parenthood · ethics · compassion · empathy · hubris · justice · grief · vengeance · social prejudice · class difference

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Cover of The Prestige by Christopher Priest

The Prestige

Christopher Priest · 1995

Two rival Victorian magicians wage a lifelong battle of secrets, with descendants later uncovering the truth.

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Themes labels: obsession · jealousy · revenge · ambition · illusion vs reality · deception · identity · truth perception · ambition costs · science vs magic · social class · gender · ambiguous morality · legacy · self-destruction

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Cover of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2017

A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.

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Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement

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Cover of Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer

Veniss Underground

Jeff Vandermeer · 2005

A failed artist’s search for a missing loved one leads into a decadent future city’s bioengineered underground nightmare.

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Themes labels: love · memory · obsession · art · creation · identity · humanity · inhumanity · transformation · biotechnology · genetic manipulation · ethical decay · power · collapse · civilizational decline · environmental ruin · class inequality · mortality · ambition · perfection · technology and ethics · nature vs artificial · life and death · desire · loss

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