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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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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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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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Cover of Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders

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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Cover of The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

The Vanished Birds

Simon Jimenez · 2020

A lonely space captain, a mute boy, and a visionary scientist become entangled in a far-future struggle over time, family, and power.

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Themes labels: love · loss · loneliness · memory · time · identity · home · found family · kindness · choice · sacrifice · regret · capitalism · corporate exploitation · colonialism · imperialism · progress · humanity · belonging · acceptance · hope · mourning · ambition · environmental collapse · ecological disaster · music · culture · moral cost · tradeoffs · parenthood · trust · duty

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Cover of MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza

MILA 2.0

Debra Driza · 2013 · MILA 2.0

A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · self-acceptance · free will · family loyalty · memory · authenticity · personhood · moral ambiguity · survival · technology and humanity · grief · betrayal · control · coming of age

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Cover of Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

Central Station

Lavie Tidhar · 2016 · Central Station

In a future Tel Aviv spaceport, linked lives, memories, faiths, and machines form a mosaic of human and posthuman change.

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Themes labels: humanity · posthumanity · memory · faith · religion · community · family · love · identity · migration · diaspora · transformation · adaptation · coexistence · otherness · technology and society · death · immigration · pluralism · social injustice · survival · evolution · memory loss · choice · transcendence

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Cover of Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers · 2018 · Wayfarers

In a post-Earth fleet society, five lives collide as a disaster forces humans to rethink home, purpose, and belonging.

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Themes labels: belonging · community · identity · culture · heritage · legacy · tradition · change · stagnation · purpose · meaning of life · death · grief · life cycle · memory · record keeping · colonialism · colonization · immigration · emigration · reparations · social equality · communal living · sustainability · resource scarcity · economy · fairness · utopia · values · coming of age · humanity

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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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Cover of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Cho-yeop

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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Cover of Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

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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Cover of Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast

Zero Repeat Forever

G.S. Prendergast, Gabrielle Prendergast · 2017 · The Nahx Invasions

A teen survivor and a defective alien soldier forge an uneasy bond after Earth is invaded, turning survival into trust.

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Themes labels: survival · humanity · grief · loss · love · prejudice · racism · identity · belonging · trauma · forgiveness · trust · loyalty · hope · mourning · defection · free will · morality · emotional intimacy

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Cover of Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen

Nophek Gloss

Essa Hansen · 2020 · The Graven

A traumatized teen survivor joins a misfit alien crew, then crosses a vast multiverse to seek revenge on slave masters.

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Themes labels: revenge · grief · trauma · loss · healing · justice · survival · identity · coming of age · free will · moral ambiguity · corruption · capitalism · oppression · slavery · genocide · acceptance · resilience · humanity versus technology · body versus mind · gender fluidity · diversity · inclusivity · power structures

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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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Cover of The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

The Cybernetic Tea Shop

Meredith Katz · 2016

A wandering ace technician meets an aging robot tea-shop owner, and both are changed by a quiet, tender connection.

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Themes labels: personhood · free will · humanity · grief · loss · moving on · prejudice · anti-robot bigotry · identity · belonging · trust · attachment · duty · memory · finding purpose · home · acceptance

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Cover of FUTU.RE by Dmitry Glukhovsky

FUTU.RE

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2015

In an immortal future Europe, a regime enforcer is drawn into a clash between state order, parenthood, and humanity.

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Themes labels: mortality · meaning of life · humanity · legacy · freedom · choice · sacrifice · parenthood · family values · overpopulation · state control · power · moral conflict · social criticism · identity · soul · future vs present · human nature · immortality's cost · social hypocrisy · dehumanization

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Cover of The Merge by Grace Walker

The Merge

Grace Walker · 2025

A mother and daughter enter an experimental mind-merging program in a resource-strained dystopia, only to question its true cost.

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Themes labels: identity · autonomy · freedom · control · ethics · selfhood · sacrifice · love · loss · grief · dementia · memory · resistance · class divide · consent · bodily autonomy · medical ethics · human rights · government control · corporate manipulation · capitalism · climate crisis · overpopulation · scarcity · nature vs nurture · critical thinking

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