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Themes labels used: sacrifice, community, immigration, welcoming others, outsiders, material greed, selfishness, altruism, acceptance, disability, identity, maturity, individuality, corruption, moral warning, good versus evil, social allegory, spirituality

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Cover of The Seventh Gate by Margaret Weis

The Seventh Gate

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman · 1995 · The Death Gate Cycle

The Death Gate Cycle ends as Haplo and Alfred race to the Seventh Gate while old enemies, new threats, and a vast world-spanning destiny collide.

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Themes labels: prejudice · racism · fear · hate · power · authority · coexistence · redemption · sacrifice · faith · hope · love · morality · identity · good and evil · responsibility · transgenerational trauma · spirituality · government corruption · belonging · loyalty

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Magic Street

Orson Scott Card · 2006

A foundling boy in modern Los Angeles discovers dream magic, hidden fae forces, and an epic conflict around his identity.

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Themes labels: identity · dreams · wishes · fate · salvation · sacrifice · redemption · community · race · class · upward mobility · religion · morality · good vs evil · coming of age · outsiderhood · roots · belonging · power and responsibility

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The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card · 2001

Linked post-apocalyptic stories follow survivors in a Mormon-led Utah rebuilding civilization after war and collapse.

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Themes labels: belonging · community · faith · survival · rebuilding civilization · outsider status · religion and society · justice · forgiveness · redemption · family · persecution · moral choice · free agency · hope · social collapse · cultural memory · identity · neighborliness

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Cover of Sirius by Olaf Stapledon

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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Sleep Donation

Karen Russell · 2014

In a near-future insomnia epidemic, a recruiter must confront the ethics of harvesting sleep and the cost of saving lives.

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Themes labels: altruism · guilt · ethics · consent · exploitation · commodification · public good · fear of contagion · capitalism · mourning · sacrifice · identity · truth and sincerity · responsibility · philanthropy

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Cover of The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

Jonathan Stroud · 2021 · The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

An outlaw and a mysterious runaway flee across a shattered future England while enemies close in and secrets unravel.

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Themes labels: survival · identity · secrets · freedom · trust · otherness · exclusion · humanity · mutual dependence · moral compromise · persecution · religious intolerance · community

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Cover of A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L'Engle · 1976 · Time Quintet

Meg must help save her gifted, bullied brother by journeying into a strange inner world where love, naming, and evil collide.

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Themes labels: love · acceptance · identity · individual worth · connectedness · faith and science · good and evil · bullying · difference · free will · naming · sacrifice · compassion · spiritual struggle · human significance · community

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Cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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Shadow City

Anna Mocikat · 2021 · Tales of the Shadow City

In ruined Los Angeles, an amnesiac survivor joins an uneasy human-vampire defense against monsters from beyond.

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Themes labels: survival · hope · identity · memory loss · loyalty · good versus evil · trust · coexistence · sacrifice · humanity · internal corruption · social hierarchy · politics · religious zealotry

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