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Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess

Juli Zeh

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Premise labels used: health dictatorship, state control, forced compliance, state surveillance, body regulation, individual vs state, court trial, dissent

Setting labels used: near future, mid-21st century, dystopian society, controlled state, courtroom, limited settings, sterile environment

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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane · 2023

A grieving queer mother raises a child marked by a punitive shadow system in a surveilled near-future America.

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Premise labels: surveillance state · criminal punishment · public shaming · single parenthood · widowhood · queer resistance · state oppression · social stigma

Setting labels: near future · United States · authoritarian regime · surveillance state · carceral society · alternate America · near-dystopian

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Distance: 0.1572

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The Choice

Claire Wade · 2019

In a near-future Britain, one mother must choose between safety and rebellion under a regime that controls food and fitness.

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Premise labels: totalitarian control · food regulation · state surveillance · health regime · rebellion · choice vs compliance · nanny state · public shaming

Setting labels: near-future Britain · near-future England · UK · dystopian future · authoritarian state · surveillance society · familiar-world dystopia

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Distance: 0.1613

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Day 7

Kerry Drewery · 2017 · Cell 7 Trilogy

In a dystopian media state, a freed teen must save her boyfriend from a public-voted death row before the system buries the truth.

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Premise labels: death row · public voting · media manipulation · corrupt justice system · government control · race against time · rescue mission

Setting labels: dystopian future · TV-show courtroom · death row · surveillance state · near-future society · media-saturated society · urban political system

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Distance: 0.1686

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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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Premise labels: controlled society · computer rule · drugged conformity · freedom vs control · rebellion · anti-utopia · surveillance state · genetic uniformity

Setting labels: future Earth · global society · totalitarian future · computer-controlled society · high-tech dystopia · utopian facade · closed society

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Distance: 0.1699

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1984: An Audible Original adaptation

Joe White, George Orwell · 2024

A condensed full-cast Audible drama of a surveillance-state classic, driven by voice acting, music, and dread.

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Premise labels: surveillance state · propaganda · historical revisionism · government control · rebellion · forbidden love · forbidden sex · thought policing · identity erasure · state oppression

Setting labels: dystopian future · surveillance society · totalitarian state · controlled society · war-time regime · alternate Britain · postwar future · authoritarian world

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Distance: 0.1743

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Epidemin

Åsa Ericsdotter · 2016

In a near-future Sweden, a health party turns anti-obesity policy into a terrifying system of control.

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Premise labels: anti-obesity regime · health totalitarianism · political extremism · state propaganda · body policing

Setting labels: Sweden · near future · contemporary future · dystopian state · totalitarian society

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Distance: 0.1751

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1984

George Orwell · 2022

A dissident in a total surveillance state risks love and sanity as the regime rewrites truth and thought itself.

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Premise labels: totalitarian control · surveillance state · state propaganda · historical revisionism · thought control · forbidden dissent · forbidden love · resistance movement · power for power · manufactured truth · language control · brainwashing

Setting labels: dystopian future · London · Oceania · totalitarian state · postwar future · surveillance society · wartime state · fictional superstate · gray urban setting · controlled society

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Distance: 0.1759

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The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

Renée Nault, Margaret Atwood · 2019 · The Handmaid’s Tale

A graphic-novel adaptation of a dystopian classic about a woman surviving a theocratic regime that controls fertility.

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Premise labels: oppressive regime · forced reproduction · women's control · authoritarian state · reproductive coercion · loss of autonomy · resistance

Setting labels: dystopian future · theocratic state · totalitarian society · Republic of Gilead · post-revolutionary regime · United States (fictionalized) · controlled domestic space · surveillance state

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

Harlan Ellison · 1997

In a future ruled by punctuality, a rebellious trickster wages comic sabotage against a system that punishes lateness.

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Premise labels: anti-conformity · authoritarian control · rebellion · time control · punctuality obsession · individualism vs system · civil disobedience · bureaucratic oppression · dissent · social satire

Setting labels: future society · dystopian future · clockwork society · regulated society · bureaucratic state · mechanized world

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Distance: 0.1886

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1984

Michael Dean, George Orwell · 2003

In a fully monitored state, one man’s private resistance collides with surveillance, propaganda, and forbidden love.

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Premise labels: total surveillance · authoritarian control · state propaganda · historical revisionism · forbidden thought · forbidden love · resistance · political oppression · brainwashing · information control

Setting labels: totalitarian state · dystopian future · surveillance society · wartime society · propaganda state · controlled city

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Distance: 0.1890

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Graceful Burdens

Roxane Gay · 2020

In a tightly controlled future, one woman confronts a system that decides who may bear children—and who may only borrow them.

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Premise labels: reproductive control · genetic screening · licensed parenthood · baby library · state control · motherhood denied · women's autonomy

Setting labels: dystopian future · alternate future · not-so-distant future · bureaucratic society · government-regulated society · library setting · patriarchal society

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Distance: 0.1908

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2BR02B

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 2007

In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.

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Premise labels: population control · extended lifespan · government regulation · assisted suicide · moral dilemma · birth requirement · one in one out · overpopulation

Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · utopian dystopia · hospital · Chicago · controlled society · immortal society · one-room setting

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Distance: 0.1909

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