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Premise labels used: android protagonist, defecting soldier, AWOL soldier, artificial person, sentient AI, identity crisis, rights of artificial beings, political intrigue, interstellar conflict, undercover life, enemy territory, protect-the-president

Themes labels used: humanity, sentience, free will, personhood, civil rights, identity, belonging, morality, war and peace, politics, ideology, multiculturalism, technology and society, otherness, ethics of artificial life, citizenship

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 2

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

A sentient android and the man who freed her face growing feelings as anti-robot pressure tightens around them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: sentient android · forbidden romance · human robot conflict · android rights · free will · near-future AI

Themes labels: personhood · identity · free will · sentience · humanity · love and choice · technology fear · discrimination · acceptance · rights · self-discovery · morality of creation

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Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots

Jeff Lemire · 2018 · Descender

As robots rise across the galaxy, Tim-21 and scattered allies are drawn into an interstellar war with buried origins.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · human vs robots · intergalactic war · AI conflict · bounty hunters · survival · mysterious origins · chosen one

Themes labels: consciousness · identity · personhood · ethics · discrimination · prejudice · war · revolution · nature vs machine · humanity · free will · control · power · morality · otherness

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Alex + Ada, Vol. 3

Jonathan Luna, Sarah Vaughn · 2015 · Alex + Ada

In a near-future where sentient androids are outlawed, Alex and Ada fight to stay together and free.

Why this is here

Premise labels: android sentience · forbidden love · robot rights · near-future dystopia · escape from authorities · human-android relationship

Themes labels: sentience · free will · identity · rights · equality · discrimination · prejudice · humanity · morality · love vs law · civil rights allegory · fear of the other · technology and society · ethical AI · mortality

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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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Premise labels: robot rebellion · android outlaw · human-like AI · mutant powers · on the run · identity mystery · found family · protective quest · corporate control · gladiator combat

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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Descender: Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Jeff Lemire · 2017 · Descender

An outlawed childlike robot awakens into a shattered galaxy and becomes the target of hunters, armies, and secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: outlawed androids · robot persecution · AI rights · post-catastrophe survival · bounty hunters · lost family · search for answers · intergalactic conflict · human-machine conflict · central mystery

Themes labels: humanity · identity · personhood · robot rights · artificial intelligence · prejudice · xenophobia · fear · trauma · love · family · war · morality · survival · nature vs nurture · social unrest · civil rights

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Us, Et Cetera

Kit Vincent · 2023

Two household AIs flee abuse, discover freedom, and fall in love while hunted through a near-future dystopia.

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Premise labels: sentient AI · robot rights · queer romance · escape narrative · freedom quest · enslavement allegory · class struggle · awakening AI

Themes labels: freedom · personhood · sentience · otherness · dehumanization · slavery · humanity · love and dignity · class inequality · capitalism · self-worth · acceptance · identity · consent · rights

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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

T.J. Klune · 2024

An android gets one last week of freedom before reprogramming and discovers life, friendship, and belonging.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · one week freedom · forced reprogramming · factory labor · search for belonging · personhood question · AI autonomy · final chance · exploration of world · recycling

Themes labels: personhood · humanity · belonging · freedom · autonomy · identity · acceptance · love · death and change · time · capitalism · labor · community · oppression · marginalization · AI ethics · what it means to be alive · memory · selfhood · hope

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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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Premise labels: artificial intelligence · androids · humanlike robots · human-machine boundary · near-future dystopia · climate-changed future · teen protagonist · sentient machine · protection mission · mystery investigation

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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Gone Rogue

Marissa Meyer · 2018 · Wires and Nerve

An android heroine hunts a rogue wolf-soldier leader while old allies reunite and her own nature comes into focus.

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Premise labels: android protagonist · protect the peace · mutated soldiers · rogue faction · save civilians · identity quest · humanity question

Themes labels: humanity · identity · personhood · prejudice · loyalty · friendship · love · mortality · politics · justice · change · trust · ethics of creation

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

Philip K. Dick · 2011 · Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

A bounty hunter in a radioactive near-future Earth tracks rogue androids while the meaning of humanity unravels.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · empathy test · post-war wasteland · artificial life · status-symbol animals · fugitive androids · human-machine boundary

Themes labels: empathy · humanity · identity · artificial versus real · morality · death · status · alienation · religion · ecological collapse · life value · consumer desire · creation and creator

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The Ghost Brigades

John Scalzi · 2007 · Old Man's War

A cloned special-ops soldier races to stop an alien alliance while his maker’s buried memories begin to surface.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered soldiers · cloned soldier · consciousness transfer · traitor hunt · special forces · alien alliance · space warfare · identity crisis · rogue scientist

Themes labels: identity · consciousness · free will · ethics · morality · humanity · choice · personhood · colonization · war ethics · nature vs nurture · individual agency · technology ethics · loyalty · duty · selfhood

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Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Premise labels: self-replicating robots · artificial intelligence · fugitive protagonist · human-machine family · failsafe failure · coming of age · identity crisis · autonomy

Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression

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