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Soul Jar by Annie Carl
    Specifically, the short story by Paul Jessup, The Last Dryad.
A GIRL LIVED INSIDE the heart of the machine. She nested where everyone could see, in a glass bubble inside the heartcavity. She was curled up fetal and surrounded by an architecture of metal and plastic. Her hair was ice and her eyes were amber and her skin was palimpsest. You could see the writing of her veins just beneath the surface, like roots from a tree.

Breathers by Justin Madson
    The air is no longer safe to breathe. A virus has been unleashed into the air, rendering it deadly to humans. People have adapted to this world, wearing respiratory masks, or "breathers," when they go outside. They have adapted and life goes on much as it did before, although, with a very real fear of death looming over their every breath.

Mad Max: Fury Road (the movie)
    In the stark desert wasteland populated by a broken humanity driven with survival and the unending ravage for gasoline, a loner named Max finds himself unwantedly caught in the middle of a chase while aiding the heroine Furiosa and her female companions. She struggles to return to her homeland and escape the clutches of a ruthless desert gang leader, Immortal Joe. With the harsh desert sands in front of them and marauders behind, only the maddest will prevail the storm.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
    A.S. (Ad Stella) 122― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry. Her name is Suletta Mercury. With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart, this girl walks step by step through a new world.

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
    ....is about as solid and perfect as a short story gets.
It's told from the perspective of two leads, a human and a robot. What Katz managed to inject into the experience of the robot, in particular, was pure excellence and I really felt for her character. Both the descriptions and characters were all extraordinarily vivid.
What you get is a nice little soul searching romance between an asexual Latina woman and a sapient robot set sometime in the future.


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