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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

Focused on “personhood” where exact label matches exist.

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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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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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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.

Why this is here

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 Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars by Jeff Lemire

Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars

Jeff Lemire · 2015 · Descender

A childlike robot wakes in a galaxy that outlawed androids and becomes the target of factions seeking his secrets.

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Themes labels: identity · memory · survival · personhood · sentience · prejudice · fear of machines · empathy · belonging · family · humanity · responsibility · mystery · past consequences · loss

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Distance: 0.0976

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Cover of Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe

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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Distance: 0.0984

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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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Distance: 0.1014

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More Perfect

Temi Oh · 2023

In near-future London, two people shaped by opposite views of a brain-linked network confront love, memory, and control.

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Themes labels: privacy · bodily autonomy · freedom · control · identity · memory · grief · trauma · mental health · loneliness · connection · autonomy · technology ethics · surveillance · capitalism · political control · public safety · personhood · free will · dementia · truth versus false memory · collectivism · individualism

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Distance: 0.1016

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Cover of The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke

The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

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Themes labels: humanity · consciousness · sentience · free will · love · desire · identity · personhood · rights · autonomy · loss · grief · selfishness · moral ambiguity · social conformity · alienation · discrimination · othering · coming of age · emotional repression · compassion · redemption · choice · societal pressure

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Cover of The Companions by Katie M. Flynn

The Companions

Katie M. Flynn · 2020

In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · memory · free will · class inequality · loneliness · companionship · immortality · corporate power · ethics of technology · grief · revenge · isolation · mortality · personhood · human rights · surveillance · social stratification

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Distance: 0.1025

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Cover of The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel by Wendy Xu

The Infinity Particle: A Graphic Novel

Wendy Xu · 2023

A young inventor on Mars falls for a humanoid AI and is forced to confront questions of freedom, identity, and consent.

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Themes labels: autonomy · personhood · consciousness · freedom · consent · self-determination · humanity · identity · ethics · sentience · trauma · abuse · healing · loss · grief · community · care · respect · relationship ethics · self-actualization

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Distance: 0.1062

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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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Distance: 0.1062

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Cover of Network Effect by Martha Wells

Network Effect

Martha Wells · 2020 · The Murderbot Diaries

A rogue SecUnit faces kidnapping, alien threats, and an unexpected AI reunion while trying to keep its humans alive.

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Themes labels: personhood · sentience · freedom · autonomy · choice · responsibility · care · trust · trauma · recovery · grief · identity · humanity · connection · friendship · family · emotional development · self-determination · corporate exploitation · colonization · social awkwardness

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Distance: 0.1067

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