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

Themes labels used: ambition, responsibility, morality, humanity, alienation, loneliness, rejection, nature vs nurture, prejudice, class, ethics, science and ethics, knowledge and consequences, love and belonging, identity, grief, obsession, isolation, social judgement

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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

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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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

Themes labels: ambition · isolation · moral responsibility · unchecked science · creation and destruction · loneliness · rejection · otherness · identity · humanity · monstrosity · nature vs nurture · parenthood · ethics · compassion · empathy · hubris · justice · grief · vengeance · social prejudice · class difference

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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

Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

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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

Themes labels: isolation · responsibility · hubris · science and morality · abandonment · loneliness · humanity · consequences · compassion · identity · guilt · loss · love · revenge · justice · sympathy for the monster

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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

Themes labels: acceptance · tolerance · understanding · companionship · love · scientific responsibility · consequences · difference and rejection · loneliness · kindness vs cruelty · nature vs nurture · appearance and judgment · moral complexity · revenge · humanity

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Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

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Premise labels: sleep elimination · neural chip · scientific hubris · post-apocalypse · cure search · guilt-driven survival · humanity question · medical ethics · productive capitalism · monstrous transformation

Themes labels: humanity · ethics · medical ethics · scientific responsibility · hubris · guilt · survival · autonomy · productivity culture · capitalism · disability · chronic illness · sleep · rest · memory · identity · personhood · othering · progress · greater good · ableism · sanity · madness · free will · body-mind divide

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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

Themes labels: ethics · animal rights · consent · exploitation · isolation · loneliness · connection · intimacy · capitalism · climate change · conservation · hubris · obsession · human arrogance · research ethics · emotional labor · communication failure · self-destruction · sacrifice · belonging

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Premise labels: human extinction · future humanity · posthuman survival · cloning · bioengineering · AI governance · interlinked stories · evolutionary experiment · communal life · reproduction crisis

Themes labels: humanity · evolution · survival · extinction · reproduction · ecology · technology vs nature · cloning · AI ethics · memory · identity · belonging · love · creation and destruction · community · collective life · faith · gender roles · destructive tendencies · species continuity

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Allegiant

Veronica Roth · 2013 · Divergent

In a shattered dystopia, Tris and Tobias venture beyond the fence and uncover truths that upend everything.

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Premise labels: faction society · outside-the-fence · truth reveal · identity crisis · genetic experiment · post-collapse world · final mission · survival choice

Themes labels: identity · loyalty · sacrifice · love · courage · truth · free will · choice · human nature · grief · war · betrayal · selflessness · nature vs nurture · power · social control · morality · belonging

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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

Themes labels: acceptance · difference · diversity · humanity · empathy · kindness · friendship · grief · loss · death · identity · belonging · prejudice · appearance vs character · outsiderhood · bullying · ableism · social exclusion · what makes a person · ethics of science · morality · self-discovery · purpose · resilience · forgiveness · courage · truth · accepting self

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Miracleman, Book One: The Golden Age

Neil Gaiman · 2016 · Miracleman

A post-utopian superhero collection follows ordinary people living under Miracleman’s godlike rule.

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Premise labels: post-utopia · superhero aftermath · humanity under gods · godlike beings · life in a transformed world

Themes labels: utopia · humanity · godhood · free will · identity · perfection · alienation · moral ambiguity · faith · fear · family · loneliness · social change · power and responsibility · human nature · technology and society

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A Song for Lya

George R.R. Martin · 2005

Two telepaths investigate a world where humans are joining an alien faith that promises total belonging at a deadly cost.

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Premise labels: telepath investigators · alien religion · parasite worship · human converts · suicidal religion · voluntary sacrifice · hive mind · collective consciousness

Themes labels: love · loneliness · connection · belonging · religion · faith · God · death · happiness · identity · communication · human condition · existentialism · truth · selfhood · sacrifice · individuality vs collectivity · search for meaning · desire for unity · alien intelligence

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