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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Camp Concentration. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: dark comedy, black humor, horrifying, bleak, disturbing, intellectual, satirical, wry, macabre, dread-filled, tragic, cerebral

Premise labels used: alternate history, near-future war, military experiment, intelligence enhancement, prisoner experiment, conscientious objector, experimental drug, genius creation, death sentence

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Cover of The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule by Jonathan Hickman

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule

Jonathan Hickman · 2013 · The Manhattan Projects

Mad scientists and secret powers clash in an alternate Cold War of conspiracies, violence, and world-scale ambition.

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Tone labels: dark · black comedy · satirical · gonzo · bizarre · demented · violent · grotesque · absurd · cynical · disturbing · delirious · off-kilter

Premise labels: mad science · alternate history · cold war · world domination · scientists vs power · secret conspiracy · space race · power struggle

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1693

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Cover of The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis · 1976

In a Catholic-dominated 1970s England, a gifted choirboy faces a forced procedure to preserve his voice.

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Tone labels: dark · satirical · funny · provocative · disturbing · menacing · pessimistic · cynical · ironic · grotesque

Premise labels: alternate history · theocracy · forced alteration · castration · boy soprano · church control · counterfactual world

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Distance: 0.1805

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Cover of The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Fatal Eggs

Mikhail Bulgakov, Михаил Булгаков · 2005

A Russian zoologist’s accidental scientific breakthrough is commandeered by the state, with disastrous results.

Why this is here

Tone labels: darkly comic · satirical · grotesque · horrific · bitter · absurd · ironic · bleak · macabre · playful

Premise labels: scientific discovery · government interference · bureaucratic misuse · food shortage · experiment gone wrong · catastrophic consequence · state appropriation · science and power

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Distance: 0.1825

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Cover of Hard to Be a God by Arkady Strugatsky

Hard to Be a God

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 1966 · The Noon Universe

An undercover historian from a utopian future is sent to a brutal feudal world and forbidden to interfere.

Why this is here

Tone labels: bleak · philosophical · tragic · satirical · grim · intense · ironic · somber · despairing · darkly humorous

Premise labels: non-interference · undercover observer · advanced civilization · feudal planet · social experiment · historian agent · godlike power · moral dilemma · intellectual persecution · civilizational change

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Distance: 0.1840

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Cover of Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick

Four Novels of the 1960s

Philip K. Dick · 2007 · Library of America

Four Philip K. Dick novels explore alternate histories, psychic futures, androids, and collapsing reality.

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Tone labels: mind-bending · psychological · bleak · darkly humorous · sardonic · surreal · trippy · philosophical · disturbing · wonder-filled · claustrophobic

Premise labels: alternate history · reality instability · simulated reality · postapocalyptic future · drug-induced hallucination · psychic powers · androids · identity crisis · humanity question · metaphysical mystery

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Distance: 0.1862

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Cover of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · 1999

In a Nazi-Japanese occupied America, disparate lives connect around a banned book, the I Ching, and unstable reality.

Why this is here

Tone labels: haunting · chilling · paranoid · uneasy · thought-provoking · gloomy · dark · unsettling · disturbing · black humor · philosophical

Premise labels: alternate history · Axis victory · occupied America · divided nation · book within book · postwar order · banned book · resistance · parallel reality · counterfactual world

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Distance: 0.1864

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Cover of The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard

The Epiphany Machine

David Burr Gerrard · 2017

A young New Yorker becomes tied to a tattoo machine that exposes hidden truths, then faces its fallout over decades.

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Tone labels: dark · bleak · funny · hilarious · satirical · ironic · cynical · thought-provoking · horrifying · unsettling · mischievous · grim · wry

Premise labels: truth tattoo · identity reveal · mystery machine · self-knowledge · fate versus free will · alternate history

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Distance: 0.1894

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Cover of エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1] by Lynn Okamoto

エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1]

Lynn Okamoto, 岡本倫 · 2002 · Elfen Lied

An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.

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Tone labels: dark · tragic · depressing · shocking · disturbing · sad · serious · melancholic · edgy · grotesque

Premise labels: experimental subject · escaped captive · split personality · telekinetic powers · new human race · government facility · government experimentation · fugitive girl

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Distance: 0.1918

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Cover of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons

Iain M. Banks · 1992 · Culture

A Culture agent is sent on a mission, while a reversed past slowly reveals the trauma and identity behind him.

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Tone labels: dark · grim · bleak · horrific · witty · satirical · brooding · intense · tragic · poetic · mysterious · unsettling · violent · philosophical

Premise labels: secret agent · dirty tricks · military intervention · political meddling · war prevention · redemption · past trauma · missing past

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Distance: 0.1924

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Cover of Motorman by David Ohle

Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Tone labels: darkly humorous · bleak · paranoid · nightmarish · absurd · whimsical · spooky · deadpan · grotesque · haunting · comic

Premise labels: surveillance · escape · identity crisis · body alteration · bizarre future · persecuted protagonist · artificial reality

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1927

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Cover of The End of the World by Don Hertzfeldt

The End of the World

Don Hertzfeldt · 2019

A surreal stick-figure apocalypse unfolds in fragmentary, darkly funny Post-it note scenes that mix dread, absurdity, and pathos.

Why this is here

Tone labels: darkly funny · bleak · hilarious · melancholy · horrific · dreamlike · surreal · macabre · poignant · haunting · despairing · absurd

Premise labels: apocalypse · end of the world · survival · surreal aftermath · absurdist apocalypse · existential crisis

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Distance: 0.1939

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Cover of Making History by Stephen Fry

Making History

Stephen Fry · 1996

A Cambridge historian and a physicist try to erase Hitler from history, only to unleash a worse alternate world.

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Tone labels: humorous · witty · playful · light-serious · serious · thoughtful · dark · philosophical · clever · tongue-in-cheek · romantic · bleak

Premise labels: alternate history · time travel · what if · Hitler prevention · historical intervention · counterfactual

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1944

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