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Themes labels used: ambition, scientific hubris, sexism, gender restrictions, morality, ethics of experimentation, death and resurrection, sisterhood, identity, recognition, obsession, corruption, playing god, women's ambition, social constraints, power and consequences, feminine rage, knowledge and transgression, grief, family duty

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Our Hideous Progeny

C.E. McGill · 2023

In 1850s England, a sharp-tongued woman scientist uncovers a family secret and pursues a dangerous, life-making experiment.

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Themes labels: feminism · gender inequality · patriarchy · women in science · scientific ethics · creation and responsibility · ambition · obsession · motherhood · grief · loss · queer identity · otherness · female rage · class inequality · racism · scientific racism · ableism · marginalization · legacy · credit and recognition · morality · reproduction · childlessness · love · ethics of creation · social justice · prejudice

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Girl One

Sara Flannery Murphy · 2021

A young woman born from a radical experiment tracks her missing mother across the U.S., uncovering family secrets and hidden powers.

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Themes labels: female power · motherhood · identity · science versus religion · autonomy · patriarchy · reproduction · family · truth and secrecy · fear of difference · sisterhood · feminism · medical ethics · social control · media exploitation · gender roles

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The Blazing World and Other Writings

Margaret Cavendish · 1994

A shipwrecked woman enters a parallel world, becomes its Empress, and reshapes it through philosophy, power, and imagination.

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Themes labels: female power · gender roles · women and education · autonomy · authority · hierarchy · utopia · religion · science · natural philosophy · imagination · self-fashioning · fame · ambition · absolutism · war and peace · social critique · female friendship · contradiction

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The Madman's Daughter

Megan Shepherd · 2013 · The Madman’s Daughter

A Victorian orphan follows rumors about her missing mad-scientist father to a remote island of horrors and secrets.

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Themes labels: madness · science and morality · forbidden science · ethics of experimentation · identity · inheritance · family legacy · truth and secrecy · fatherhood · survival · animal cruelty · gender norms · Victorian sexism · power and hubris · good and evil · curiosity · selfhood

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Moths

Jane Hennigan · 2023 · Moths

In a female-run future after a moth-borne plague targets men, an older caretaker faces buried truths about the world she helped build.

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Themes labels: gender roles · power and control · gender oppression · equality · patriarchy · misogyny · misandry · feminism · female authority · survival · societal collapse · morality · fear of reestablished patriarchy · trauma · memory · care ethics

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The Soprano Sorceress

L.E. Modesitt Jr. · 1998 · Spellsong Cycle

A frustrated middle-aged singer is pulled into a world where song is magic and becomes a dangerously powerful sorceress.

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Themes labels: gender inequality · female agency · power and responsibility · music and identity · ethics · moral ambiguity · political intrigue · culture shock · leadership · consequences · survival · modern values vs tradition · feminism

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Interference

Brad Parks · 2020

A physicist vanishes after baffling seizures, pulling his wife and a detective into a race through science, money, and suspicion.

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Themes labels: science and ethics · family loyalty · grief · search and rescue · truth and deception · ambition · corporate exploitation · state power · dangerous knowledge · trust · bias and prejudice · gender politics

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss · 2017 · The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club

A penniless Victorian woman recruits other monstrous daughters, Sherlock Holmes, and Watson to uncover a secret society.

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Themes labels: female agency · women's empowerment · feminism · gender roles · monstrosity · identity · parentage · science vs ethics · power and control · social exclusion · othering · family legacy · mad science · patriarchy · self-determination

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The Love Interest

Helen Comerford · 2024 · The Love Interest

A teen girl cast as a superhero’s “love interest” fights the role, the system behind it, and her own feelings.

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Themes labels: misogyny · patriarchy · feminism · female empowerment · gender roles · heroism · morality · power and authority · propaganda · self identity · self determination · blind obedience · truth versus lies · mental health · anxiety · panic attacks · sisterhood · friendship · family · coming of age · ethics · public image · social expectations · equality · environmental crisis

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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Kiersten White · 2018

An orphaned girl enters the Frankenstein household and learns survival may depend on controlling the boy she’s meant to serve.

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Themes labels: survival · female agency · women's oppression · sexism · control · obsession · monstrousness · moral ambiguity · identity · dependency · family · solidarity · abuse · self-preservation · madness

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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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Get Off the Unicorn: Stories

Anne McCaffrey · 1982 · The Talents Universe

A 14-story McCaffrey sampler of psychics, dragons, and far-future worlds, mixing series origins with standalone tales.

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Themes labels: gender roles · feminism · women's autonomy · power · coming of age · identity · approval seeking · education · career choice · psychic burden · social control · sexual politics · moral ambiguity · ability and disability · class inequality · creativity · parental expectations · selfhood

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