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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for The Invisible Man.
Premise labels used: invisibility, mad scientist, science experiment gone wrong, power corrupts, wanted criminal
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A scientist’s matter-transmission experiment goes horribly wrong, and a murder confession hides the reason.
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Premise labels: scientist gone wrong · matter transmission · forbidden experiment · murder mystery · body transformation · scientific hubris
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Distance: 0.1588
A forgettable assistant gets pulled into a secret nanotech conspiracy and becomes invisible while a corrupt general hunts her.
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Premise labels: invisibility · nanotechnology · secret lab · government conspiracy · spywork · corrupt military · tech theft · science gone wrong · ordinary woman in danger
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Distance: 0.1713
A psychology professor recreates a notorious sleep-deprivation experiment, and the lab slowly turns into a nightmare.
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Premise labels: sleep deprivation experiment · forbidden experiment · scientific hubris · mad scientist · psychological breakdown · ethics of science · urban legend retelling
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Distance: 0.1961
A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · ambition · forbidden knowledge · unnatural life · ethical experiment · created being · abandoned creation · responsibility
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Distance: 0.1979
A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.
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Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror
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Distance: 0.1996
A retiring Yukon police chief investigates a mutilated corpse and uncovers an isolated nightmare of bugs, secrets, and reality-bending science.
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Premise labels: police investigation · mutilated corpse · missing scientist · isolated wilderness · experiment gone wrong · mysterious machine · reality breach · insect infestation · cosmic horror · body horror
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Distance: 0.2088
A state investigator pieces together a massacre at a secret research facility while buried evidence exposes a larger conspiracy.
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Premise labels: investigation · cover-up · secret research facility · corrupt regime · mystery · revolution · forbidden experiments · conspiracy
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Distance: 0.2094
Two classic Wells novellas: one sends a scientist into a distant human future; the other unleashes a dangerous invisibility experiment.
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Premise labels: time travel · invisibility · future civilization · mad scientist · social decline · class divide · scientific experiment · scientific hubris
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Distance: 0.2107
A ship engineer battles a computer crisis while an interrogator questions a captured fugitive aboard a secret vessel.
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Premise labels: experimental spacecraft · locked-room setup · interrogation · terrorist infiltration · computer malfunction · moral ambiguity · authoritarian regime · shipboard crisis
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Distance: 0.2123
A secret agent probes an illegal prison-planet experiment where brutal survival has forged a dangerous new society.
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Premise labels: social experiment · prison planet · illegal experiment · hostile world · legal investigation · multi-species society · power struggle · survival pressure · revenge
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Distance: 0.2131
A mysterious scientist’s free lighting project secretly turns a tranquil town volatile through an unseen gas experiment.
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Premise labels: mad scientist · secret experiment · small town · social experiment · free lighting project · gas experiment · scientific interference · human temperament
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Distance: 0.2137
A NASA discovery in the Arctic ignites a presidential-election conspiracy, forcing one analyst to uncover the truth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: scientific discovery · conspiracy · political power struggle · cover-up · NASA investigation · alien life evidence · truth verification · assassins · election stakes
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Distance: 0.2170
