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Tone labels used: bleak, dark, grim, whimsical, touching, thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic, brutal, serious, strange, bizarre, heartbreaking, adventurous

Premise labels used: animal uprising, war against humanity, sentient animals, giant ants, search quest, lost love, human extinction, posthuman society, species conflict, uplifted animals

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Mood Swings

Frankie Barnet · 2024

In a post-fauna world, two young women navigate grief, love, and absurd survival as a billionaire promises a time machine.

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Tone labels: surreal · satirical · wry · absurd · hilarious · darkly funny · sharp · sardonic · earnest · earnestly serious · melancholy · nihilistic · hopeful · unsettling · crazy

Premise labels: animal uprising · post-fauna world · billionaire power · time machine · wealth inequality · climate collapse · grief economy · internet fame · young adulthood · romantic entanglement

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Tone labels: haunting · disturbing · thought-provoking · bittersweet · bleak · unsettling · intellectual · lyrical · compulsive · philosophical · strange

Premise labels: mind transplant · body swap · animal consciousness · human-animal hybrid · experimental medicine · survival at any cost · species identity · ethical dilemma · animal exploitation · future collapse

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Distance: 0.1770

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Dr. Rat

William Kotzwinkle · 1976

A deranged lab rat defends animal experimentation as a wider animal rebellion builds beyond the lab.

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Tone labels: dark satire · black humor · grotesque · bleak · horrific · tragic · biting · absurd · disturbing · sardonic · gruesome

Premise labels: animal experimentation · lab revolt · animal uprising · animal rights · anti-vivisection · animal liberation · sentient animals · collaboration with oppressor · apologist protagonist · worldwide animal rebellion · species solidarity · science vs ethics

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Only Human

Sylvain Neuvel · 2018 · Themis Files

A giant-robot trilogy finale follows survivors split between Earth and an alien world as humanity spirals into fear and war.

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Tone labels: dark · bittersweet · thought-provoking · philosophical · bleak · hopeful · emotional · heartbreaking · sardonic · humorous · satisfying

Premise labels: giant robot · alien origin · planetary return · world crisis · human conflict

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung · 2024

Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.

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Tone labels: wry · darkly humorous · bleak · tender · unsettling · sad · satirical · cynical · prescient · intimate · horrific · thought-provoking

Premise labels: immortality research · AI emotions · posthuman survival · cannibalism pandemic · dystopian futures · late capitalism · technology and society · human-machine relations · environmental collapse

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 2004 · Mortal Engines Quartet

In a post-apocalyptic future, mobile cities hunt and eat smaller settlements, trapping two teens in a deadly chase.

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Tone labels: dark · grim · whimsical · adventurous · tense · bleak · brutal · fun · unsettling · morally serious

Premise labels: mobile cities · city predation · resource scarcity · post-apocalyptic survival · anti-tractionist conflict · revenge quest · fugitive pursuit · urban hierarchy

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Animal Man Omnibus

Grant Morrison · 2013 · Animal Man Omnibus

A neglected superhero’s family life and animal-rights crusade spiral into surreal metafiction and a confrontation with creation itself.

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Tone labels: weird · surreal · earnest · emotional · dark · playful · philosophical · thought-provoking · bitter · trippy · cathartic

Premise labels: obscure hero revival · animal powers · family life · animal rights · environmental activism · superhero deconstruction · metafiction

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Of Men and Monsters

William Tenn · 1968

After giant aliens conquer Earth, a young human’s rite of passage pulls him into a satirical quest for survival and truth.

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Tone labels: satirical · ironic · bleak · wry · dark · amusing · humorous · tense · cynical · thought-provoking · sardonic

Premise labels: alien invasion · humanity as vermin · role reversal · burrow society · survival · rite of passage · coming of age · raiding for supplies · resistance to domination · species hierarchy

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Tone labels: horrific · philosophical · creepy · bleak · tense · gripping · thought-provoking · darkly humorous · emotional · hopeful · unsettling

Premise labels: outbreak · body parasites · sentient parasite · medical experiment · humanity at risk · identity conflict · species conflict · compromise between sides · survival struggle · found family

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood · 2013 · MaddAddam

In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.

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Tone labels: darkly humorous · witty · hopeful · sad · chilling · hilarious · whimsical · satirical · thoughtful · bittersweet · ironic · tender · uneasy

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · genetically engineered humans · plague aftermath · new civilization · storytelling culture · survival community · human extinction aftermath · eco-collapse · corporate control

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His Name was Death

Rafael Bernal · 2021

A bitter recluse in the Mexican jungle learns mosquito language and is pulled into a surreal bid for world domination.

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Tone labels: dark · darkly satirical · hilarious · delirious · cynical · grim · sinister · wild · surreal · allegorical · philosophical · serious · desperate · apocalyptic

Premise labels: misanthrope · jungle exile · inter-species communication · mosquito society · world domination · anti-colonial allegory · ecological disaster · hive mind · language learning · dictation

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On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Kim Bo-young · 2021

A short story collection where robots, humans, dragons, and time travelers probe evolution, identity, and what counts as life.

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Tone labels: thought-provoking · philosophical · haunting · beautiful · strange · mind-bending · poetic · introspective · eerie · hopeful · melancholic · witty · surreal · imaginative · disturbing

Premise labels: posthuman survival · evolutionary thought experiment · nonhuman protagonists · alternate futures · humanity questioned · sentience test · identity crisis · species boundary

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Distance: 0.1900

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