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Themes labels used: war aftermath, mourning, loss, regret, guilt, grief, revenge, terrorism, suicide, suicide bombing, imperialism, cultural intervention, postcolonialism, caste system, social hierarchy, utopia, post-scarcity, morality of intervention, memory, mortality, afterlife, resilience, forgiveness, redemption, responsibility, art and politics, music, death, meaning of life, state violence, war crime

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Redemption's Blade

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2018 · After the War

A war hero and two former enemy soldiers seek a magic relic to heal a shattered world after evil has fallen.

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Themes labels: war aftermath · rebuilding · redemption · guilt · trauma · loss · hope · kindness · friendship · prejudice · redemption through action · moral ambiguity · collective memory · cultural destruction · leadership vacuum · reconciliation · meaning after victory · identity after war · responsibility · restoration · postwar politics · faith · good versus evil · ethical compromise

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Life Debt

Chuck Wendig · 2016 · Star Wars: Aftermath

A post-Empire crew hunts Imperial fugitives, then gets drawn into a rescue mission tied to Kashyyyk and missing allies.

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Themes labels: aftermath of war · moral ambiguity · political transition · governance · justice · resistance · trauma · survivor guilt · prejudice · identity · family · community · hope · compromise · state power · imperial slavery · rebirth

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Cover of Victory's Price by Alexander Freed

Victory's Price

Alexander Freed · 2021 · Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron

A battered squadron and an Imperial remnant race toward Jakku as war, loyalty, and guilt force hard choices.

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Themes labels: war trauma · guilt · complicity · forgiveness · redemption · reconciliation · accountability · morality · loyalty · duty · honor · justice · retribution · identity · home · hope · loss · mourning · PTSD · postwar recovery · humanizing enemies

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Cover of Rapture by Kameron Hurley

Rapture

Kameron Hurley · 2012 · Bel Dame Apocrypha

A retired assassin is pulled into one final desert mission as war’s aftermath pushes her nation toward civil war.

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Themes labels: war aftermath · peace instability · violence · betrayal · loyalty · duty · survival · redemption · loss · love and loss · power · gender roles · religious conflict · class conflict · civil rights · war veterans · state violence · human condition · morality · identity · ageing · colonization · environmental collapse · representation · systemic oppression

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Chaos Station

Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen · 2015 · Chaos Station

A post-war cargo-ship crew is pulled into a rescue mission when two traumatized former lovers reunite after years apart.

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Themes labels: war trauma · PTSD · identity · humanity · recovery · survival · loyalty · betrayal · redemption · grief · forgiveness · trust · sanity · bodies as changed · government abandonment · social reintegration

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Cover of Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi · 2018

A scavenger in occupied Baghdad stitches together a corpse, and its return to life unleashes a violent search for justice.

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Themes labels: war trauma · justice · revenge · guilt and innocence · identity · mourning · corruption · faith and doubt · social fragmentation · civilian survival · loss and burial · cycle of violence · collective responsibility

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The Joiner King

Troy Denning · 2005 · Star Wars: Dark Nest

Postwar Jedi vanish into the Unknown Regions, drawing Luke’s family into a border crisis with an eerie insect hive mind.

Why this is here

Themes labels: aftermath of war · identity · individuality · collectivism · free will · moral relativism · loyalty · duty · peace and instability · otherness · political responsibility · change after trauma

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These Prisoning Hills

Christopher Rowe · 2022

An ex-soldier is pulled into a post-apocalyptic Appalachian rescue mission when a buried AI weapon may still be active.

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Themes labels: aftermath of violence · cycles of violence · war trauma · memory · place and belonging · exploitation of land · environmental destruction · humanity vs technology · identity after war · survival · loss · power and control · imperial collapse · post-conflict reckoning

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Cover of 86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 2: Run Through the Battlefront by Asato Asato

86—EIGHTY-SIX, Vol. 2: Run Through the Battlefront

Asato Asato, 安里 アサト · 2019 · 86—EIGHTY-SIX Light Novel

After a brief reprieve, surviving soldiers must adjust to a new refuge before war pulls them back to the front.

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Themes labels: war aftermath · discrimination · racism · child soldiers · trauma · survival · belonging · peace vs war · identity · dehumanization · consent · maturity · homecoming · grief · psychological damage · resistance

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Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North

Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Ryan North, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2020

A graphic-novel reimagining of a nonlinear anti-war classic, following Billy Pilgrim through war, trauma, and time jumps.

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Themes labels: anti-war · war trauma · PTSD · free will · determinism · fatalism · time · memory · trauma aftermath · absurdity · humanity · humanism · survival · meaninglessness · mass violence · civilian suffering · loss · hope · love · mortality · fate

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Blood Scion

Deborah Falaye · 2022 · Blood Scion

A hidden-power teen soldier infiltrates a brutal regime, risking her humanity as she fights for survival and revenge.

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Themes labels: survival · humanity · revenge · oppression · colonialism · war · child soldiers · identity · power · justice · loss of morality · resilience · racism · cultural erasure · genocide · betrayal · fear · hope · resistance · self-destruction · family · loyalty · trust · grief · loss · sexual violence · dehumanization · agency · sacrifice

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