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Themes labels used: aging, death, immortality, loneliness, love, sex, desire, misanthropy, human condition, modern society, nihilism, meaning of life, religion, faith, technology and humanity, transhumanism, loss of youth, decadence, social decay, dehumanization, individualism, capitalism, loneliness versus connection, identity, free will, determinism, posthumanity

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Freezing Point

Anders Bodelsen · 1971

A terminally ill editor chooses cryogenic suspension, then wakes into a bleak future where survival has a dangerous price.

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Themes labels: mortality · aging · immortality · quality of life · life versus eternity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · capitalism · class divide · consumer capitalism · social control · surveillance · human connection · love and loss · meaning of life · death acceptance · commodification of life · technological progress · scientific hubris · ethical consent · social inequality · freedom · state ownership · existentialism · nihilism · identity loss · senescence

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Aldous Huxley · 1993

A Hollywood millionaire obsessed with eternal life draws an English scholar into a caustic, idea-packed California satire.

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Themes labels: mortality · immortality · aging · death · longevity · capitalism · materialism · consumerism · greed · wealth inequality · youth obsession · spirituality · mysticism · religion · ethics · human nature · self-interest · goodness · evil · meaning of life · personality and ego · social criticism · technology skepticism · science and ethics · modernity · nationalism · war · decadence · hubris · human folly · loneliness · time · transcendence · self-sufficiency · social responsibility · class power

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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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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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The Prince of Milk

Exurb1a · 2017

A time-warping, philosophy-laced sci-fi fantasy follows gods, villagers, and a love triangle across eras and realities.

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Themes labels: existentialism · nihilism · meaning of life · purpose · determinism · free will · consciousness · time · reincarnation · mortality · love across lifetimes · entropy vs novelty · the nature of reality · human limitation · grief · loneliness

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Time Enough for Love

Robert A. Heinlein · 2021 · The World as Myth

An immortal man recounts his centuries-spanning life while his captors try to keep him alive long enough to finish.

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Themes labels: immortality · mortality · love · sex and love · life purpose · longevity · taboo · incest · free love · individualism · libertarianism · self-reliance · wisdom · aging · human potential · social norms · morality · gender roles · family · childbearing · eugenics · birth control · identity · death wish · living fully

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Holy Fire

Bruce Sterling · 2001

In a post-plague gerontocracy, a risk-averse elder gets rejuvenated and rediscovers youth, art, and freedom.

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Themes labels: aging · life extension · mortality · identity · authenticity · art · creativity · humanity · posthumanity · freedom · security · risk · safety · power · social control · inequality · class stratification · generational conflict · healthcare ethics · medical ethics · aesthetic philosophy · self-discovery · rebellion · societal stagnation · consequences of longevity · memory · body-mind relation

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Immortality, Inc.

Robert Sheckley · 1963 · Hob Draconian

A 1958 man wakes in 2110 and must navigate a future where death, afterlife, and bodies are all commercialized.

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Themes labels: death · afterlife · immortality · identity · mind-body problem · consciousness · freedom · social inequality · class privilege · capitalism · religion · science vs religion · mortality · responsibility · human nature · societal change · consumerism · ethics of technology · existentialism · meaning of life

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The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1996

Mary Shelley’s supernatural stories explore immortality, love, loss, and the curse of outliving everyone you know.

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Themes labels: immortality · mortality · death · love · loss · loneliness · alienation · jealousy · vanity · time · social stigma · desire and consequence · science and ethics · human limitation · fate · self-destruction

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The Book of Skulls

Robert Silverberg · 1972

Four college roommates chase a secret to immortality, only to face a ritual that demands an impossible price.

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Themes labels: immortality · death · sacrifice · morality · existentialism · self-discovery · identity · sexuality · homosexuality · bisexuality · desire · faith · belief · skepticism · spirituality · religion · mysticism · free will · self-knowledge · male identity · privilege · class · coming of age · self-destruction · human nature

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Starość aksolotla

Jacek Dukaj · 2015

After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.

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Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · transhumanism · posthumanism · mind-body dualism · soul · identity · mortality · immortality · memory · culture · technology and humanity · progress · stagnation · civilization · meaning · existentialism · religion · ideology · capitalism · isolation · creation · survival · apocalypse · artificial intelligence

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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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