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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text.

Themes labels used: ambition, isolation, moral responsibility, unchecked science, creation and destruction, loneliness, rejection, otherness, identity, humanity, monstrosity, nature vs nurture, parenthood, ethics, compassion, empathy, hubris, justice, grief, vengeance, social prejudice, class difference

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2018

A scientist creates life from dead matter, then faces the human and moral consequences of abandoning his creation.

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Themes labels: ambition · hubris · responsibility · otherness · loneliness · isolation · rejection · compassion · revenge · grief · guilt · identity · humanity · science and ethics · religion and science · nature and culture · free will · classism · prejudice · parenthood · creation · mortality · death · knowledge · freedom · belonging · abandonment

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2017

A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.

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Themes labels: ambition · responsibility · morality · humanity · alienation · loneliness · rejection · nature vs nurture · prejudice · class · ethics · science and ethics · knowledge and consequences · love and belonging · identity · grief · obsession · isolation · social judgement

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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Frankenstein The Graphic Novel

Jason Cobley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joe Sutliff Sanders · 2009

A graphic retelling of Frankenstein follows a scientist, his creation, and the tragic fallout of bringing life to the dead.

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Themes labels: acceptance · tolerance · understanding · companionship · love · scientific responsibility · consequences · difference and rejection · loneliness · kindness vs cruelty · nature vs nurture · appearance and judgment · moral complexity · revenge · humanity

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The Similars

Rebecca Hanover · 2019 · The Similars

At an elite boarding school, a grieving teen confronts a clone of her dead best friend and a web of secrets.

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Themes labels: identity · humanity · clone rights · grief · loss · ethics · scientific advancement · prejudice · xenophobia · discrimination · belonging · individuality · nature vs nurture · privacy · consent · moral ambiguity · fear of difference · political overtones

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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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The Memoirs of a Survivor

Doris Lessing · 1995

In a collapsing city, an unnamed woman shelters a girl and survives by watching both the streets and a strange world beyond her walls.

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Themes labels: survival · collapse · social breakdown · responsibility · care · motherhood · adolescence · coming of age · violence · morality · human nature · gender roles · class difference · anarchy · memory · identity · psychological ambiguity · civilization · isolation · community

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Themes labels: humanity · identity · nature versus nurture · free will · individuality · self-determination · prejudice · slavery · power · corruption · dehumanization · human rights · belonging · acceptance · loyalty · morality · ethics of cloning · survival · compassion · empathy · immortality · addiction · sacrifice · predestination

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Sirius

Olaf Stapledon · 2000

A scientist raises a dog with human intelligence, and his lonely life exposes the limits of belonging, love, and humanity.

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Themes labels: alienation · otherness · identity · belonging · consciousness · humanity · nature versus nurture · intelligence · love · loneliness · religion · spirit · society and prejudice · ethics of experimentation · war · fear of the unknown · community · soul · meaning of life · free will · self-worth · difference · empathy · bigotry · disability

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Mirror Dance

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1995 · Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order)

A clone brother hijacks his sibling’s life to rescue others like him, and the mission forces both men to confront who they are.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · trauma · survival · family · choice · agency · inheritance · succession · genetics versus experience · humanity · moral responsibility · redemption · acceptance · personhood · social belonging · psychological harm · bioethics · class power · loyalty

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · humanity · medical ethics · bodily autonomy · survival · family · moral ambiguity · species rights · othering · prejudice · corporate greed · scientific responsibility · power abuse · compromise · acceptance · motherhood · coming of age · apocalypse ethics · nature vs nurture

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A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016 · Wayfarers

An AI reborn in an illegal human body and a cloned mechanic's pasts intertwine in a hopeful search for identity and belonging.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · sentience · belonging · freedom · autonomy · prejudice · class structure · gender · equality · humanity · purpose · survival · motherhood · family · consciousness · cultural difference · ethics · self-determination · empathy · social justice

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