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Themes labels used: 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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Even Greater Mistakes: Stories

Charlie Jane Anders · 2021

Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.

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Themes labels: free will · fate · identity · gender · sexuality · queerness · transness · love · loss · hope · community · survival · politics · oppression · climate change · technology and society · grief · belonging · art and expression · social division · ethics · responsibility

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Spaceman of Bohemia

Jaroslav Kalfar · 2017

A Czech astronaut on a solo mission to a cosmic dust cloud confronts family guilt, a failing marriage, and a possible alien friend.

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Themes labels: identity · redemption · guilt · inheritance · memory · loss · love · loneliness · humanity · existentialism · politics · history · legacy · freedom · national identity · justice · ambition · self-forgiveness · truth · perception

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Velocity Weapon

Megan E. O'Keefe · 2019 · The Protectorate

A stranded gunnery sergeant wakes on an enemy AI ship centuries later while her brother hunts her across a fractured star empire.

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Themes labels: survival · identity · agency · sentience · personhood · AI rights · human rights · memory · loss · grief · loyalty · trust · politics · war · autonomy · morality · conspiracy

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Cover of Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Toward Eternity

Anton Hur · 2024

A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · consciousness · mortality · immortality · memory · language · translation · poetry · music · art · technology and humanity · personhood · love · survival · evolution · death · grief · loss · community · imperialism · racism · propaganda · transmission · selfhood · artistic creation · authorship · meaning of life · future of humanity · authentic self

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Cover of Mem by Bethany C. Morrow

Mem

Bethany C. Morrow · 2018

In alternate 1920s Montreal, an extracted memory who can think for herself is summoned back to the lab.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · trauma · autonomy · ownership · personhood · self-determination · free will · ethics · power · classism · capitalism · patriarchy · belonging · loss · self-possession · othering · women's autonomy · memory and grief

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Cover of Lágrimas en la lluvia by Rosa Montero

Lágrimas en la lluvia

Rosa Montero · 2011 · Bruna Husky

A replicant detective in future Madrid investigates violent deaths while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens her kind.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · mortality · death · survival · ethics · morality · love · need for others · loneliness · alienation · social inequality · racism · specism · discrimination · political corruption · power · freedom · privacy · truth · history manipulation · climate change · environmental collapse · class division · humanity · acceptance of difference

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Cover of Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

Remember You Will Die

Eden Robins · 2024

An AI mother searches for the truth behind her human daughter’s death through a web of obituaries across time.

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Themes labels: grief · mortality · humanity · identity · memory · legacy · art · climate change · activism · ethics · consciousness · responsibility · history · connection · loss · hope · capitalism · respectability · queerness · Jewishness · belonging

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Cover of The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi

The Sagan Diary

John Scalzi · 2007 · Old Man's War

Jane Sagan reflects on war, love, and identity in a lyrical diary as she leaves soldiering behind.

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Themes labels: identity · consciousness · mortality · death · love · sex · fear · sacrifice · memory · humanity · war · duty · freedom · language · selfhood · moral ambiguity · aging · transition · emotional repression · inner life

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Cover of Every Version of You by Grace Chan

Every Version of You

Grace Chan · 2022

In a climate-damaged near-future Australia, a woman must choose between a virtual future and the physical ties that anchor her.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · consciousness · mortality · grief · loss · climate change · technology · capitalism · class inequality · embodiment · authenticity · migration · diaspora · belonging · memory · ethics · disability · aging · mental health · consumerism · privacy · consent · social responsibility · surveillance · progress · transhumanism

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Cover of Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

T.J. Klune · 2024

An android gets one last week of freedom before reprogramming and discovers life, friendship, and belonging.

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Themes labels: personhood · humanity · belonging · freedom · autonomy · identity · acceptance · love · death and change · time · capitalism · labor · community · oppression · marginalization · AI ethics · what it means to be alive · memory · selfhood · hope

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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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