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Åsa Ericsdotter

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

Setting labels used: Sweden, near future, contemporary future, dystopian state, totalitarian society

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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: 0.1621

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1984: The Graphic Novel

Matyáš Namai, George Orwell · 2021

A stark graphic adaptation of Orwell's dystopian classic, tracing one man's quiet rebellion under total surveillance.

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Premise labels: totalitarian state · surveillance state · thought control · state propaganda · rebellion · forbidden love · political resistance · companion piece

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian society · surveilled home · war state · London · Oceania · near-future

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Distance: 0.1649

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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: 0.1650

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Baby Blue

Bim Eriksson · 2021

In near-future Sweden, a young woman’s grief draws her into a queer resistance against emotion-policing fascism.

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Premise labels: dystopian society · emotions policed · mental health control · fascist regime · resistance movement · institutionalization · queer liberation

Setting labels: near-future · Sweden · Stockholm · urban dystopia · institutional setting · forest hideout · underground world · authoritarian state

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Distance: 0.1688

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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: 0.1705

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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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Distance: 0.1736

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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: 0.1742

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1984: The Graphic Novel

Fido Nesti, George Orwell · 2021

A faithful graphic retelling of Orwell’s dystopia, following one man’s forbidden awakening under total surveillance.

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Premise labels: totalitarian surveillance · forbidden love · secret resistance · censorship · memory and truth · state control

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · London · Oceania · alternate future · war state · controlled society

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Distance: 0.1743

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Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess

Juli Zeh · 2009

In a health-obsessed near future, a woman faces trial and turns against the system after her brother’s death.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1751

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Animal Farm / 1984

George Orwell · 2003

Two Orwell classics in one volume: an allegorical farm revolt and a grim surveillance-state dystopia about power, control, and truth.

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Premise labels: totalitarianism · state propaganda · political allegory · revolution gone wrong · oppressed uprising · surveillance state · authoritarian control · power corrupts

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · farm setting · Oceania

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Distance: 0.1756

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V for Vendetta

Steve Moore · 2006

In a near-future Britain ruled by fear and surveillance, a masked rebel draws a young woman into revolution.

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Premise labels: totalitarian regime · state surveillance · political resistance · masked vigilante · revenge narrative · revolutionary uprising · self-discovery · government oppression

Setting labels: near-future · dystopian Britain · London · postwar Britain · surveillance state · totalitarian state · alternate future · post-collapse society

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Distance: 0.1855

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Viendra le temps du feu

Wendy Delorme · 2021

In a near-future totalitarian state, multiple queer and feminist voices struggle to survive, resist, and imagine freedom.

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Premise labels: totalitarian state · closed borders · book censorship · resistance community · survival under oppression · collective resistance · feminist resistance · queer resistance

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · closed society · border regime · authoritarian state · city-state · oppressive present · alternative commune

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Distance: 0.1895

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