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The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells

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Premise labels used: shipwreck survival, island isolation, mad scientist, animal experimentation, human-animal hybrids, vivisection, play God, science gone wrong, ethical science, survival ordeal, castaway story, moral experiment

Setting labels used: Pacific island, remote island, South Pacific, shipboard setting, colonial island, isolated laboratory, late 19th century, Victorian era, England, tropical isolation

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The Madman's Daughter

Megan Shepherd · 2013 · The Madman’s Daughter

A Victorian orphan follows rumors about her missing mad-scientist father to a remote island of horrors and secrets.

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Premise labels: family secret · mad scientist · remote island · scientific experiments · animal-human hybrids · father quest · truth-seeking · survival ordeal · love triangle · forbidden knowledge

Setting labels: Victorian era · 19th century · London · remote island · tropical island · isolated compound · jungle · medical school · historical setting

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Distance: 0.1897

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Web

John Wyndham · 1979

A remote-island utopia experiment unravels when the colonists discover the island’s real inhabitants are deadly, intelligent spiders.

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Premise labels: utopian colony · remote island · failed utopia · isolation · deadly spiders · colonial backlash · experimental society · nature versus humans

Setting labels: Pacific island · remote island · tropical island · isolated island · postwar setting · 1960s · British colonial context · nuclear testing zone · fictional island · abandoned island

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Distance: 0.2008

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Dagon

H.P. Lovecraft · 2011

A traumatized sailor’s confession leads from wartime escape to a remote island and an encounter with impossible sea horror.

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Premise labels: shipwreck survival · island discovery · ancient ruin · forbidden knowledge · cosmic horror · sea horror · madness

Setting labels: Pacific Ocean · remote island · war at sea · World War I · deserted island · volcanic island · ancient underwater world · maritime

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Distance: 0.2104

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Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time

James Gurney · 2003 · Dinotopia: Main

A shipwrecked father and son discover a hidden island where dinosaurs and humans share a carefully imagined utopia.

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Premise labels: shipwreck survival · lost island · human dinosaur coexistence · utopia · discovery journey · explorer journal · hidden civilization · worldbuilding showcase

Setting labels: 19th century · 1860 · lost island · tropical island · uncharted waters · alternate world · time-isolated world · prehistoric coexistence · fantasy island · civilized wilderness

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Distance: 0.2149

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Island 731

Jeremy Robinson · 2013 · Nemesis Saga

A research crew stranded on a mysterious Pacific island uncovers a hidden WWII实验 site still spawning monsters.

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Premise labels: research vessel · stranded island · crew survival · hidden laboratory · human experimentation · genetic engineering · monster creation · WWII atrocity · scientific mystery · search and rescue

Setting labels: modern day · World War II backstory · Pacific Ocean · tropical island · jungle island · research vessel · laboratory complex · uncharted island · ocean pollution setting · military installation

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Distance: 0.2154

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The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · 2016 · The Wild Robot

A shipwrecked robot awakens alone on a wild island and must learn survival, belonging, and care among wary animals.

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Premise labels: shipwrecked robot · stranded on island · survival · unexpected motherhood · found family · technology vs nature · animal community

Setting labels: remote island · wild island · animal-inhabited island · wilderness · nature-based setting · future world · post-shipwreck

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Distance: 0.2208

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Fragment

Warren Fahy · 2009 · Fragment

A reality-show science crew lands on a remote island whose isolated evolution has produced deadly, otherworldly life.

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Premise labels: remote island · lost ecosystem · speculative evolution · reality show · scientific expedition · monster island · alien biosphere · survival story · containment threat · worldwide risk

Setting labels: South Pacific · remote island · island ecosystem · long-isolated island · research vessel · reality TV production · contemporary setting · historical prologue · naval quarantine · closed environment

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The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne · 2004 · Capitaine Nemo

Five castaways land by balloon on a mysterious Pacific island and use science, teamwork, and grit to survive its secrets.

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Premise labels: castaways · desert island · survival · mystery island · balloon escape · scientific ingenuity

Setting labels: uninhabited island · Pacific island · 19th century · American Civil War · island life · tropical island

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Distance: 0.2231

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Vitro

Jessica Khoury · 2015 · Corpus

A teen heads to a secret Pacific island to find her mother and discovers lab-grown humans, lies, and danger.

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Premise labels: remote island · secret experiments · genetic engineering · lab-grown humans · scientific conspiracy · estranged mother · family secret · scientists playing god · escape mission · identity mystery

Setting labels: remote island · Pacific island · island lab · tropical setting · isolated island · Guam · Boston · contemporary world · secret research facility

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Distance: 0.2232

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The House at the End of the World

Dean Koontz · 2023

A traumatized artist on a remote island is pulled into a terrifying secret tied to a nearby research facility.

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Premise labels: isolated island · government conspiracy · escape narrative · survival horror · scientific experiment

Setting labels: remote island · archipelago · isolated house · government research facility · stormy landscape

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Distance: 0.2320

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Adrift in the Pacific: Two Years Holiday

Jules Verne · 2003

A schoolboys' holiday voyage turns into a two-year fight to build a society and survive on a deserted island.

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Premise labels: castaway children · desert island survival · group survival · schoolboys adrift · resourceful youth · isolated colony

Setting labels: Pacific Ocean · deserted island · New Zealand · 19th century · school holiday · at sea · uninhabited land · southern hemisphere

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Distance: 0.2378

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Island

Aldous Huxley · 2002

A shipwrecked journalist reaches an isolated utopia and is slowly changed by its ideas as outsiders threaten the island.

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Premise labels: utopian island · shipwrecked outsider · cultural conversion · philosophical society · society under threat

Setting labels: Pacific island · South Pacific · isolated island · resource-rich island · fictional island nation · 20th century

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Distance: 0.2393

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