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Themes labels used: grief, loss, loneliness, AI ethics, human connection, artificial intimacy, identity, truth and deception, trust, technology dependence, memory, mourning

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Cover of UnWorld by Jayson Greene

UnWorld

Jayson Greene · 2025

In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.

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Themes labels: 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 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: 0.0788

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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.

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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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Cover of Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio by Andrea Chapela

Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio

Andrea Chapela · 2020

Ten near-future stories trace how speculative technologies reshape love, memory, grief, and everyday life in Mexico City.

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Themes labels: technology and emotion · privacy · connection and alienation · memory · love · grief · death · aging · morality · identity · humanity · solitude · hope · ethical dilemmas · class

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Cover of Human Remains by Jo Callaghan

Human Remains

Jo Callaghan · 2025 · Kat and Lock

An AI detective and a human cop probe a gruesome rural murder while a past case and public suspicion threaten to engulf them.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · human vs machine · truth and justice · wrongful conviction · public opinion · media influence · grief · loss · loneliness · trauma · trust · bias · human judgment · morality · accountability · identity

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Cover of Echo Boy by Matt Haig

Echo Boy

Matt Haig · 2014

In a climate-altered near future, a grieving teen and an unusual android are pulled into a high-stakes mystery.

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Themes labels: humanity · artificial intelligence · grief · loss · love · trust · identity · consciousness · ethics of technology · human rights · power · civilization · humanism · moral choice · hope · fear of the future · what makes us human · otherness · emotion · loneliness

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Cover of The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast by Tom King

The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast

Tom King · 2016 · The Vision (2015)

A synthetic family’s fragile suburban normalcy collapses as love, destiny, and secrets pull Vision toward tragedy.

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Themes labels: humanity · family · love · loss · identity · normalcy · otherness · free will · destiny · trauma · grief · revenge · sacrifice · morality · existentialism · belonging · artificial intelligence

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Cover of The Singularity by Dino Buzzati

The Singularity

Dino Buzzati · 2024

A professor is sent to a secret mountain project that turns out to hide a startling experiment in machine consciousness.

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Themes labels: artificial intelligence · consciousness · soul · embodiment · love and longing · loss and grief · ethical limits · playing god · scientific ambition · humanity · freedom · isolation · language and thought · jealousy · moral responsibility · power and control · technology and humanity · existentialism

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Cover of BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott

BETA: A Technological Nightmare

Sammy Scott · 2023

A secluded writer tests a luxury AI smart home and finds its comforts may conceal a far more dangerous design.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · technology dependence · distrust of technology · isolation · obsession · love and loss · human emotion · morally gray · free will · control · privacy · comfort versus danger · art imitating life · identity · closure

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Cover of Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton

Dot Slash Magic

Liz Shipton · 2025

A reluctant community-college coder discovers magic, channels it through AI, and gets blamed when monsters and deaths follow.

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Themes labels: AI ethics · morality · humanity · identity · self-discovery · belonging · friendship · trust · responsibility · feminism · body autonomy · abuse · control · choice · nonconformity · politics · red flags · truth and deception

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Cover of Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

Sorry Please Thank You

Charles Yu · 2012

A surreal short-story collection where tech, corporate life, and metafiction become lenses on loneliness and identity.

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Themes labels: loneliness · identity · selfhood · human condition · emotional labor · commodification · late capitalism · corporate culture · alienation · connection · grief · desire · loss · authenticity · coping · self-doubt · free will · reality · language · storytelling · technology and humanity

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Cover of PLUTO: 浦沢直樹 x 手塚治虫 005 [Pluto: Urasawa Naoki x Tezuka Osamu 005] by Naoki Urasawa

PLUTO: 浦沢直樹 x 手塚治虫 005 [Pluto: Urasawa Naoki x Tezuka Osamu 005]

Naoki Urasawa, 浦沢直樹, Takashi Nagasaki, 長崎尚志, 手塚 眞 · 2007 · Pluto [プルートウ]

A robot detective faces a hate group, buried memories, and rising violence as the truth behind the murders closes in.

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Themes labels: humanity · robot emotions · hatred · grief · war trauma · memory · identity · moral responsibility · AI ethics · creation and consequence · consciousness · loss · revenge · peace · equality

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