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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Premise labels used: scientific hubris, playing god, creator and creation, lonely monster, revenge tragedy, ethical responsibility

Setting labels used: Europe, North Pole, Swiss Alps, Ingolstadt, 19th century, Gothic atmosphere, natural landscapes, scientific world, isolated huts, Arctic expedition

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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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Premise labels: creator and creation · playing God · scientific ambition · artificial life · creation gone wrong · othered outsider · revenge pursuit · abandonment · loneliness · responsibility

Setting labels: Arctic · Swiss Alps · Geneva · Scotland · Europe · early 19th century · Romantic era · Gothic landscape · isolated frontier · natural world

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Distance: 0.1458

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Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2025

An original 1818 Gothic classic where a scientist creates life, then faces the human cost of abandonment.

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Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · scientific ambition · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral responsibility · playing god · monstrous outsider · unchecked progress

Setting labels: 18th century · Europe · Arctic · North Pole · natural landscapes · laboratory · gothic setting · travel narrative

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Distance: 0.1620

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Gris Grimly's Frankenstein

Gris Grimly, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2013

Mary Shelley’s classic is reimagined as a lush graphic adaptation, blending abridged text with eerie, detailed illustrations.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · created monster · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral dilemma · playing God

Setting labels: Gothic · scientific experiment · historical atmosphere · icy wasteland

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Distance: 0.1810

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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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Premise labels: scientific creation · man-made life · creator and creation · monstrous consequence · frozen isolation

Setting labels: North Pole · frozen sea · Europe · Geneva · university setting · scientific setting · Gothic setting · 19th century · historical setting · fictional reality

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Distance: 0.2017

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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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Premise labels: creation gone wrong · mad scientist · man-made monster · abandonment · revenge · rejection · loneliness · responsibility · dangerous knowledge · ethical science

Setting labels: 19th century · laboratory · isolated landscapes · gothic setting · scientific setting · epistolary frame

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Distance: 0.2030

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Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo · 2023

A scientist links her mind to a wild wolf, chasing intimacy, knowledge, and belonging as her marriage and ethics unravel.

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Premise labels: neural interface · animal consciousness · wolf perspective · interspecies empathy · research ethics · conservation science · workplace obsession · failing marriage

Setting labels: near future · winter setting · climate-affected world · corporate-dominated world · academic setting · wild landscape

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Distance: 0.2701

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Ancestor

Scott Sigler · 2010

A biotech experiment to solve organ shortages unleashes deadly genetic predators on an isolated island.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · xenotransplantation · organ transplant · scientific experiment · monster creation · science gone wrong · lab disaster · nature unleashed · human hubris · bioethics

Setting labels: remote island · Lake Superior · Canadian Arctic · isolated facility · winter setting · biotech lab · research station · wilderness setting · contained setting · off-grid

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Distance: 0.2733

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Zacharius Usta

Jules Verne · 2018

A famed clockmaker’s pride turns into a crisis of faith when the watches he made begin to fail mysteriously.

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Premise labels: inventor downfall · pride and fall · clockmaker protagonist · disappearing function · soul bound to creation · mortality crisis · immortality quest · science versus faith · man versus God · technological hubris · Faustian bargain · moral allegory

Setting labels: Geneva · Switzerland · Rhone island · gothic atmosphere · workshop setting

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Distance: 0.2742

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Whiteout

R.S. Burnett · 2025

A glaciologist trapped in Antarctic winter hears a nuclear-war broadcast and fights to survive as isolation deepens.

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Premise labels: stranded scientist · remote outpost · nuclear war · last survivor · survival stakes · climate crisis · isolated mission · catastrophe prevention · human versus nature · secret sabotage · sanity under pressure

Setting labels: Antarctica · polar winter · field station · remote outpost · ice shelf · Ross Ice Shelf · deep isolation · perpetual darkness · subzero weather · nuclear winter · claustrophobic setting · remote wilderness

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Distance: 0.2809

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Stitch: Reimagining Frankenstein

Pádraig Kenny · 2025

A gentle gothic retelling of Frankenstein follows a created boy who leaves his castle home to save his friend and learn what makes a person.

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Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · created beings · finding place · monster identity · outcast protagonist · escape journey · scientific experimentation · world rejection · search for friend

Setting labels: castle · isolated castle · village · outside world · gothic setting · stormy atmosphere · unnamed secondary-world setting

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Distance: 0.2817

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The Chrysalids

John Wyndham · 1977

In a post-nuclear society, a boy hiding telepathy must survive a community that kills all signs of difference.

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Premise labels: post apocalypse · genetic mutation · telepathy · religious fundamentalism · social conformity · outcast youth

Setting labels: post nuclear world · rural village · agricultural community · isolated community · Labrador · fringes · badlands · harsh theocracy · future Earth

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Distance: 0.2818

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Mammoth

John Varley · 2005

A billionaire’s mammoth-cloning scheme uncovers a frozen time-travel mystery in the Canadian Arctic.

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Premise labels: mammoth cloning · time travel mystery · prehistoric discovery · frozen remains · billionaire project · genetic engineering · animal revival · archaeological find · scientific puzzle · reality mystery

Setting labels: northern Canada · Nunavut · modern day · prehistoric past · Ice Age · Pleistocene · North America · modern metropolis · modern America · Arctic

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Distance: 0.2847

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