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Premise labels used: hidden technology, secret government agency, technological suppression, inventor abduction, anti-gravity breakthrough, scientific conspiracy, power monopoly

Themes labels used: technology control, free access to knowledge, social upheaval, power corruption, innovation and stagnation, government overreach, monopoly, censorship, public good, scientific ethics, social order, human progress, freedom vs security, trust in institutions, civic responsibility

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The Master of the World

Jules Verne · 2006 · Robur

A federal inspector hunts strange sightings across the U.S., only to confront a secretive inventor and his impossible machine.

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Premise labels: investigation · mystery vehicle · technological threat · world domination · mad inventor · government pursuit · disappearing vehicle · unexplained phenomena · superweapon · secret invention

Themes labels: technology and power · misuse of technology · world domination · state power · individual freedom · vanity · hubris · curiosity · fear of progress · science and morality · pessimism · public panic · human limits

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Stolen Thoughts

Tim Tigner · 2020 · Watch What You Wish For

A deaf bioengineering student secretly masters mind-reading tech, then must protect it from ruthless rivals who want it weaponized.

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Premise labels: mind reading · scientific breakthrough · secret invention · ethical dilemma · power and privacy · technology misuse · hidden discovery · assassin threat

Themes labels: privacy · ethics · technology and society · moral responsibility · truth and deception · social order · power and corruption · communication · disability · free will

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Immune

Richard Phillips · 2009 · The Rho Agenda

A hunted teen team races to stop a government-backed alien-tech crisis as conspiracies, violence, and powers escalate.

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Premise labels: alien technology · government conspiracy · teen protagonists · genetic cure · medical breakthrough · pursuit and cover-up · hidden informant · technological escalation

Themes labels: power and responsibility · corruption · secrecy · betrayal · coming of age · scientific ethics · human enhancement · good versus evil · alien contact · moral ambiguity · conspiracy · control and autonomy · danger of technology · government overreach · immortality consequences

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Iron Man, Vol. 1: Believe

Kieron Gillen · 2013 · Iron Man (2012) (Collected Editions)

Iron Man hunts down stolen Extremis tech across globe and space, testing new armors while confronting the cost of his inventions.

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Premise labels: rogue technology · technological fallout · containment mission · scientific weapon · identity crisis

Themes labels: responsibility · technology ethics · misused innovation · morality of invention · redemption · personal accountability · transhumanism · containment · control · identity · penance · human impact of science

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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.

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Premise labels: tech monopoly · corporate infiltration · inside sabotage · surveillance capitalism · privacy erosion · anti-tech resistance · near-future dystopia · big tech

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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The Peace War

Vernor Vinge · 1984 · Across Realtime

A scientist and a teen genius fight a technocratic regime that rules a shattered world with unbreakable force-field weapons.

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Premise labels: technological monopoly · weaponized invention · world takeover · technological resistance · inventor vs regime · apprentice genius · underground resistance · power through science · peace through force

Themes labels: technology and power · authority and resistance · war and peace · political control · technological progress · technological suppression · social regression · competence · innovation · distributed knowledge · human nature · corruption of power · moral dilemma · scientific ethics · state violence · class hierarchy · gender hierarchy · racial inequality · propaganda · civilizational decline · plague and collapse · leadership · intelligence · survival · anarchism · anti authoritarianism

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Off Armageddon Reef

David Weber · 2007 · Safehold

A hidden human colony must break a medieval theocracy and revive technology before the alien enemy returns.

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Premise labels: last colony · hidden civilization · tech suppression · theocratic control · science revival · undercover agent · gender disguise · alien threat

Themes labels: innovation vs stagnation · religious control · freedom · progress · technology and power · civilization building · corruption · social manipulation · duty · survival

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Deception Point

Dan Brown · 2002

A NASA discovery in the Arctic ignites a presidential-election conspiracy, forcing one analyst to uncover the truth.

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Premise labels: scientific discovery · conspiracy · political power struggle · cover-up · NASA investigation · alien life evidence · truth verification · assassins · election stakes

Themes labels: truth vs deception · science and politics · public trust · government secrecy · corruption · privatization · national security · funding and power · ambition · morality · credibility · media manipulation · institutional cover-up · human frailty · technology and ethics

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Bandwidth

Eliot Peper · 2018 · Analog

A lobbyist in a near-future feed-driven world is pulled into a covert struggle over privacy, power, and climate fate.

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Premise labels: near-future · digital privacy · feed manipulation · political lobbying · corporate espionage · climate crisis · shadow war · social engineering · media control · free will

Themes labels: privacy · free will · climate change · ethics · morality · power · political manipulation · media manipulation · social media influence · selfhood · responsibility · end-justifies-means · public good vs private gain

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Augmented

James D. Prescott · 2019

An amnesiac CEO and a glaciologist uncover a conspiracy linking brain implants, climate crisis, and alien secrets.

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Premise labels: air shortage · brain enhancement · amnesia · murder frame-up · shadow conspiracy · alien technology · global survival · scientific mystery · government secrecy · ancient secrets

Themes labels: climate change · air pollution · human enhancement · ethics of technology · science and society · conspiracy · power and greed · truth seeking · human survival · ancient origins · public secrecy · military secrecy · identity · memory · corporate responsibility · future of humanity

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The Bohr Maker

Linda Nagata · 2011 · The Nanotech Succession

A dying posthuman and a slum-born woman become fugitives after an illegal nanotech device rewrites her body and fate.

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Premise labels: illegal nanotechnology · life extension · fugitive chase · body modification · posthumanism · tech suppression · black market tech · identity transformation

Themes labels: technology and power · humanity and transhumanism · ethics of biotechnology · class inequality · poverty · social control · reproductive control · life extension · equality · freedom vs regulation · ecological anxiety · body autonomy · sentience · personhood · nature vs technology · liberatory potential of tech

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Version Zero

David Yoon · 2021

A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.

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Premise labels: big tech · data privacy · surveillance capitalism · internet shutdown · hacktivism · vigilante justice · corporate whistleblowing · revenge plot · tech satire · digital resistance

Themes labels: privacy · personal data · online addiction · social media addiction · corporate ethics · accountability · free will · morality · technology and society · bias and hate · cyberbullying · validation economy · late-stage capitalism · regulation · surveillance · truth and transparency

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