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Themes labels used: reality and fiction, dreams, parallel worlds, transcendence, hope, seeking meaning, modern alienation, capitalism, consumerism, aesthetics, minimalism, design, memory, solitude, escape, identity, death, ageing, time, space, dimension, freedom, utopia, postcapitalism, late modernity, end times

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami · 2003

An unnamed man is pulled between an information war in Tokyo and a walled town where shadows are lost and dreams are read.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · subconscious · memory · mind · selfhood · dualism · reality · perception · utopia and dystopia · alienation · existentialism · inner life · loss · freedom · detachment · escapism · language and meaning · information · technology · control · despair and hope · duality · human nature · sound and silence · desire · death

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Memories of the Future

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky · 2009

Seven surreal Soviet-era tales of expanding rooms, runaway ideas, and a time machine testing reality itself.

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Themes labels: alienation · oppression · censorship · subversion · imagination · time · memory · reality · dreams · logic · philosophy · identity · art and literature · language · survival · modernity · urban crowding · fear · existential dread · historical change · systems and ideology · individual freedom

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq · 2005

A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.

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Themes labels: 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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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko · 2024

Three Asian American friends chart art, tech, and activism across decades as their lives are reshaped by a darker future.

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Themes labels: memory · friendship · art · identity · time · ambition · meaning of life · social change · technology · surveillance · capitalism · gentrification · class · assimilation · collective memory · history · nostalgia · activism · community · authenticity · art as work · work as art · commodification · monetization · privacy · late capitalism · loss · hope · futurity

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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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Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century

Orson Scott Card · 2004

A 20th-century science fiction anthology selected and introduced by Orson Scott Card, spanning major eras and styles.

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Themes labels: time travel · identity · humanity · technology · social commentary · ethics · loneliness · alienation · evolution · free will · art versus commerce · religion and science · media and culture · consumerism · societal control · hope and despair · cost of progress · meaning of being human

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Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon · 2006

A sprawling, globe-trotting revenge epic follows anarchists, inventors, and adventurers through a world on the brink of war.

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Themes labels: light and dark · anarchism · capitalism · labor struggle · modernity · progress · history · war · technology · science · mathematics · entropy · paranoia · freedom · utopia · destiny · coincidence · greed · violence · power · apocalypse · illusion versus reality · identity · transcendence · grace · memory · family · revenge · social change · industrialization · spirituality · mysticism · American empire

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Celestia

Manuele Fior · 2021 · Celestia

A telepathic duo flees an island refuge into a flooded, post-apocalyptic world where answers are scarce and symbols abound.

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Themes labels: humanity · progress · technology critique · metamorphosis · rebirth · hope · trauma · alienation · memory · mystery · freedom · confinement · transformation · social change · generational change · survival · identity · communication · metaphor · future society

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Burning Chrome

William Gibson · 1986 · Sprawl

A landmark cyberpunk collection of 10 short stories exploring hackers, cyberspace, corporate power, and dystopian futures.

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Themes labels: alienation · isolation · belonging · technological anxiety · corporate power · capitalism · dehumanization · memory · identity · transhumanism · social marginality · prescience · nostalgia · retro-futurism · melancholy · humanity

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If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

Jason Pargin · 2022 · John Dies at the End

A cursed smart-toy and collapsing timelines drag a monster-hunting trio toward an apocalypse in a weird, funny nightmare.

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Themes labels: apocalypse · mortality · mental health · depression · anxiety · hope · fate · free will · time and consequence · reality and perception · existential horror · social commentary · capitalism · poverty · humanity · friendship · moral growth · trauma · intergenerational trauma · responsibility

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The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

Gene Wolfe · 1983

A 1970s short-fiction collection of eerie, layered tales where reality, memory, and storybooks keep slipping apart.

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Themes labels: escapism · trauma · survival · identity · human nature · violence · mortality · memory · reality and illusion · storytelling · authorial voice · decay · colonization · technology and humanity · transhumanism · religious allusion · cultural decline · prescience · repression · ambiguous meaning

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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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