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Themes labels used: 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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Familiar Face

Michael DeForge · 2020

A complaint-reader in a constantly updating future searches for connection in a surreal, technocratic world that rewrites people and places.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · change · adaptation · alienation · loneliness · human connection · control · autonomy · bureaucracy · technology · capitalism · efficiency · optimization · surveillance · power · resistance · grief · love · online life · consumerism · depersonalization · emotional labor

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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: 0.0789

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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.

Why this is here

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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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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Distance: 0.0830

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Cover of The Arc by Ben Oliver

The Arc

Ben Oliver · 2022 · The Loop Trilogy

In a dystopian future, a rebel group races to stop an AI apocalypse as new allies, betrayals, and sacrifice reshape everything.

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Themes labels: freedom · resistance · humanity · empathy · authority · oppression · sacrifice · hope · mental health · PTSD · depression · survival · morality · technology ethics · AI control · community · love over hate · truth · memory · censorship · human nature

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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · 2018 · LIFEL1K3

A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · free will · humanity · artificial intelligence · slavery · rebellion · choice · morality · power and control · personhood · family · survival · grief · trauma · ethics of creation · freedom · trust

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Distance: 0.0892

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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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Distance: 0.0916

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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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Distance: 0.0922

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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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Distance: 0.0941

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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: 0.0974

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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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Distance: 0.0976

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