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Premise labels used: dystopian society, engineered society, social control, state conditioning, managed happiness, future society, class stratification, controlled reproduction, individual vs system, utopia facade

Setting labels used: future, World State, London, reservation, socially engineered future, technological dystopia, single global state, industrial society

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Cover of Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

Brave New World: A Graphic Novel

Fred Fordham, Aldous Huxley · 2022

Fred Fordham’s graphic adaptation of Huxley’s dystopian classic renders a controlled future in vivid color and stark unease.

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Premise labels: dystopian society · state control · social conditioning · genetic engineering · artificial reproduction · consumer culture · happiness vs freedom

Setting labels: future society · speculative future · authoritarian state · controlled society · caste system · laboratory reproduction · urban future

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Distance: 0.0936

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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: 0.1244

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Conform

Ariel Sullivan · 2025 · Reform

A sheltered young woman is pulled into elite courtship, a forbidden love triangle, and a buried rebellion in a tightly controlled future society.

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Premise labels: dystopian society · forced procreation · love triangle · rebellion · class hierarchy · surveillance state · genetic control · forbidden love · oppressor romance

Setting labels: far future · post-war future · cloud city · surface world · underground society · technologically advanced society · surveillance state · caste system · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1354

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Cover of Limes inferior by Janusz A. Zajdel

Limes inferior

Janusz A. Zajdel · 1997

In a tightly controlled future city, a streetwise fixer uncovers the truth behind an apparently fair social order.

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Premise labels: controlled society · class hierarchy · intelligence ranking · social engineering · resource rationing · guaranteed basic income · restricted mobility · system evasion · hidden order

Setting labels: future society · urban complex · closed city · alternate reality · controlled future · technological society

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Distance: 0.1396

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Cover of Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki

Terminal Boredom: Stories

Izumi Suzuki · 2021

Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic society · gender politics · population control · screen addiction · alienation · technological mediation · interplanetary politics · human drift · social collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future

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Distance: 0.1429

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Cover of The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry

The Giver Quartet

Lois Lowry · The Giver

Four linked dystopian companion novels follow different young protagonists across separate communities and hard questions about control, memory, and hope.

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Premise labels: dystopian society · parallel communities · connected companion books · gifted protagonists · controlled society · memory burden · post-collapse societies

Setting labels: futuristic world · dystopian future · multiple communities · separate societies · same world · low-tech communities · controlled society

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Distance: 0.1439

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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley · 2005 · Brave New World

In a genetically engineered future, a controlled society’s stability is challenged by an outsider from beyond its walls.

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Premise labels: totalitarian future · genetic engineering · social conditioning · caste system · managed happiness · nonviolent control

Setting labels: future society · World State · laboratory reproduction · reservation enclave · industrial modernity · after Ford

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Distance: 0.1471

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QualityLand 2.0

Marc-Uwe Kling · 2020 · QualityLand

In a near-future algorithmic dystopia, interwoven characters face pursuit, politics, and escalating absurdity.

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Premise labels: near-future dystopia · AI society · algorithmic control · surveillance capitalism · level system · digital identity · right to be forgotten · climate crisis · machine therapy · killer robot

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · algorithmic society · digital world · self-driving cars · big-data world

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Distance: 0.1516

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Cover of Anthem by Ayn Rand

Anthem

Ayn Rand · 1999

In a collectivist future where even “I” is forbidden, one man’s curiosity sparks a dangerous quest for selfhood.

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Premise labels: collectivist society · individual freedom · forbidden selfhood · banned identity · state control · discovering self · forbidden knowledge · dystopian future · anti-collectivism · self-determination

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · totalitarian state · collectivist society · dark age future · pre-industrial future · low-tech world · controlled society · underground hideout

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Distance: 0.1522

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Cover of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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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Premise labels: totalitarian society · collective identity · state control · awakening individuality · forbidden love · technocratic future · space mission

Setting labels: future city · glass city · walled society · surveillance state · post-war future · twenty-sixth century · technocratic world · external wilderness

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Distance: 0.1592

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Cover of "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

"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: 0.1613

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Cover of Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave by Greg Rucka

Lazarus, Vol. 3: Conclave

Greg Rucka · 2015 · Lazarus

A conclave of ruling families turns a fragile power balance into open war, while Forever questions her loyalties and origins.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · ruling families · class hierarchy · family power struggle · elite conclave · biotech warrior · loyalty conflict

Setting labels: near-future dystopia · post-government world · feudal future · ocean platform setting · luxury enclave · family domains · global power structure

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Distance: 0.1654

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