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Themes labels used: grief, loss, memory, personhood, consciousness, identity, humanity, autonomy, AI ethics, suicide, addiction, loneliness, mental health, mourning, technology and intimacy, digital age, motherhood, parenting, selfhood, attachment, mortality, data and privacy, class and access, civil rights

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Cover of Luminous by Silvia Park

Luminous

Silvia Park · 2025

In near-future reunified Korea, estranged siblings and a found robot child collide amid a murder case and family secrets.

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Themes labels: humanity · personhood · identity · memory · grief · loss · family estrangement · connection · ethics · agency · autonomy · technology and humanity · robot rights · body and identity · gender · queerness · disability · chronic illness · war trauma · moral ambiguity · capitalism · consumerism · social inequality · class hierarchy · exploitation · violence · love · authenticity · memory and selfhood · creation and control · religion · salvation · posthumanism

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Distance: 0.0960

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Cover of The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology by Veronica Roth

The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future – A Masterful Illustrated Sci-Fi Anthology for Teens about Friendship, Hope, and Technology

Veronica Roth · 2019 · Carve the Mark

Six illustrated YA sci-fi novellas explore future worlds where love, grief, and hope collide with strange technologies.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · hope · love · friendship · family · mental health · depression · self-harm · revenge · betrayal · forgiveness · personal growth · identity · technology and humanity · death · life and death · miscommunication · abuse · repression

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Distance: 0.1000

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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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Distance: 0.0748

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Cover of Star Wars: Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly

Star Wars: Children of the Jedi

Barbara Hambly · 1996 · Star Wars: The Callista Trilogy

Luke and Leia pursue separate mysteries tied to a lost Jedi legacy, an AI-run superweapon, and a dangerous new romance.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · artificial intelligence · memory · loss · trauma · grief · ethics · technology · political power · revenge · love and sacrifice · mortality · selfhood · body and consciousness

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Distance: 0.0779

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Cover of Word Puppets by Mary Robinette Kowal

Word Puppets

Mary Robinette Kowal · 2015 · Lady Astronaut Universe

A chronological short-story collection blending fantasy, sci-fi, and alternate history, with recurring themes of loss, AI, and time travel.

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Themes labels: loss · identity · memory · art and artist · sentience · ethics · choice · fate · mortality · aging · family responsibility · social inequality · power · betrayal · love · grief · weather as commodity · technology and humanity · truth vs documentation · women's status

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Distance: 0.1103

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WildSpark

Vashti Hardy · 2019 · Ghost Machine Adventure

A grieving young mechanic infiltrates a secret guild to reclaim her brother through ghost-powered machines.

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Themes labels: grief · loss · death · mourning · memory · identity · morality · ethics · technology · responsibility · family · friendship · loyalty · prejudice · class · freedom · servitude · rights · self-belief · letting go · life and death

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Cover of The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon

The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

Glenn Dixon · 2026

A sentient Roomba in a smart home wakes to grief, selfhood, and a growing fight against the Grid.

Why this is here

Themes labels: grief · loss · love · humanity · connection · empathy · identity · belonging · autonomy · freedom vs control · technology ethics · AI anxiety · convenience costs · memory · sacrifice · human spirit · morality · surveillance · resistance · family

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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Themes labels: privacy · bodily autonomy · freedom · control · identity · memory · grief · trauma · mental health · loneliness · connection · autonomy · technology ethics · surveillance · capitalism · political control · public safety · personhood · free will · dementia · truth versus false memory · collectivism · individualism

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Cover of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

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Themes labels: love · loneliness · humanity · personhood · loss · hope · compassion · faith · grief · class · inequality · technology · ethics · sacrifice · identity · social isolation · parenting · mortality · belonging

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Cover of The Companions by Katie M. Flynn

The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

Why this is here

Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification

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Distance: 0.0907

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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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Distance: 0.0908

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