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Themes labels used: conformity, nonconformity, freedom, individuality, alienation, isolation, technology, television, media addiction, intellectual freedom, surveillance, bureaucracy, dehumanization, social control, rights and liberties, fresh air, nature vs machine, fear of difference

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When the Tripods Came

John Christopher · 1988 · The Tripods

A teen boy witnesses the first alien Tripods and watches a TV-driven takeover turn ordinary people into willing slaves.

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Themes labels: freedom · free will · individuality · brainwashing · media manipulation · authoritarianism · conformity · propaganda · xenophobia · nationalism · censorship · resistance · survival · coming of age · fear of control · dehumanization · societal collapse · mass suggestion · personal autonomy · civil liberties

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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 2011 · Fahrenheit 451

In a future where books are illegal and firemen burn them, one man begins to question everything he knows.

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Themes labels: censorship · free thought · knowledge · ignorance · conformity · individuality · mass media · technology · alienation · book culture · memory · freedom of expression · state control · consumerism · intellectualism · truth · happiness vs freedom · anti-intellectualism · propaganda · critical thinking

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The Every

Dave Eggers · 2021 · The Circle

A tech-skeptic infiltrates a mega-corporation to sabotage it from within, but its control keeps expanding.

Why this is here

Themes labels: privacy · freedom · choice · surveillance · conformity · monopoly power · data privacy · consumerism · algorithmic control · social media addiction · transparency · autonomy · freedom vs security · convenience vs autonomy · cancel culture · climate change · sustainability · technology ethics · collective responsibility · individual agency · behavioral modification · humanity · subjectivity vs objectivity

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This Perfect Day

Ira Levin · 1970

In a computer-run future of drugged conformity, one uneasy man begins to question a perfect world built to erase freedom.

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Themes labels: freedom · control · individuality · conformity · choice · surveillance · conditioning · drug dependence · genetic engineering · collectivism · propaganda · truth · obedience · equality vs liberty · moral ambiguity · human nature · selfhood · social engineering · utopia critique · political allegory

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میرا

Christopher Frank · 2005

In a glass-walled, conformity-obsessed society, one woman’s love and difference threaten the rules.

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Themes labels: individuality · freedom · privacy · conformity · collectivism · control · surveillance · identity · love · loneliness · alienation · choice · resistance · humanity · body autonomy · social equality · otherness · shame · desire

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Mind Games

Teri Terry · 2015 · Mind Games

A teen outcast who can sense both virtual and real worlds is forced into tests that expose a dangerous secret.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · difference · conformity · control · free will · surveillance · technology · virtual life · truth and illusion · secrecy · paranoia · power · corporate domination · social exclusion · self-discovery · future anxiety · morality of technology

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We

Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1959

A loyal engineer in a glass-walled future state records his orderly life until love and doubt unsettle his total system.

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Themes labels: freedom versus happiness · individualism · conformity · totalitarianism · surveillance · rationalism · emotion versus logic · imagination · identity · dehumanization · collectivism · power and control · technocracy · truth versus propaganda · revolution · censorship · human nature · privacy · social engineering

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Feed

M.T. Anderson · 2004

A teen’s moon vacation turns into a close-up look at a brain-implanted media system, a collapsing world, and a fragile romance.

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Themes labels: consumerism · advertising · technology dependence · loss of individuality · free will · language decay · social media · class inequality · environmental collapse · intellectual freedom · identity · corporate control · privacy · conformity · brainwashing

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The White Mountains

John Christopher · 2003 · The Tripods

A teen flees an alien regime that brainwashes adults with metal caps and heads for a rumored refuge in the mountains.

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Themes labels: freedom · free will · conformity · control · individuality · authority · coming of age · curiosity · resistance · censorship · self determination · surveillance · brainwashing · classical dystopia · security vs freedom

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The Circle

Dave Eggers · 2013 · The Circle

A young employee joins a dominant tech giant whose promise of openness slowly turns into total surveillance.

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Themes labels: privacy vs transparency · surveillance · social media addiction · technology ethics · freedom vs control · democracy · memory · history · accountability · conformity · consumerism · dehumanization · public self · identity · social pressure · power and control · information access · connectedness · civility · loss of solitude

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They: A Sequence of Unease

Kay Dick · 1977

In a hazy British dystopia, an unnamed narrator watches artists and solitary people survive escalating attacks on creativity.

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Themes labels: censorship · art and power · individualism · conformity · freedom of expression · intellectual freedom · identity · memory · surveillance · fear · paranoia · resistance · communication · love · emotion suppression · authoritarianism · mass culture · social control · anti-intellectualism · beauty vs violence

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Kallocain

Karin Boye · 1952

A scientist in a totalitarian future invents a truth serum that exposes even private thoughts, with devastating consequences.

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Themes labels: privacy · freedom of thought · collectivism · individualism · fear · paranoia · truth and confession · control · surveillance · propaganda · humanity · love · trust · alienation · moral responsibility · science and ethics · freedom · dissent · social criticism

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