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Themes labels used: propaganda, dehumanization, scapegoating, body shaming, public health as control, freedom vs security, mass manipulation, authoritarianism, fascism, social conformity, collective guilt, human rights, censorship, classifying bodies, internalized hatred, fear of difference, mob mentality, media complicity, moral collapse

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Outpost 2

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2021 · Пост. Спастись и сохранить

A warning mission to Moscow collides with a brutal, propaganda-soaked collapse of order in post-apocalyptic Russia.

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Themes labels: propaganda · totalitarianism · authoritarianism · political critique · religion and power · censorship · history rewriting · collective guilt · truth suppression · survival · morality · sacrifice · fear · hope · violence · dehumanization · cult of personality · national myth · corruption · responsibility · real-world allegory · war parallels · identity and nation

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Distance: 0.1177

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Acide sulfurique

Amélie Nothomb · 2005

A televised concentration camp reality show turns spectators into accomplices and one prisoner into the audience’s fixation.

Why this is here

Themes labels: hypocrisy · dehumanization · voyeurism · mass media · spectatorship · moral responsibility · good and evil · collective guilt · identity · beauty · human cruelty · social critique · human nature · indifference

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Distance: 0.1221

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When the Tripods Came

John Christopher · 1988 · The Tripods

A teen boy witnesses the first alien Tripods and watches a TV-driven takeover turn ordinary people into willing slaves.

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Themes labels: freedom · free will · individuality · brainwashing · media manipulation · authoritarianism · conformity · propaganda · xenophobia · nationalism · censorship · resistance · survival · coming of age · fear of control · dehumanization · societal collapse · mass suggestion · personal autonomy · civil liberties

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The Running Man

Richard Bachman, Stephen King · 1999

A desperate father enters a deadly televised manhunt to save his sick child in a ruthless near-future America.

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Themes labels: media manipulation · propaganda · class inequality · poverty · capitalism · corruption · social injustice · violence as entertainment · survival · desperation · totalitarian control · healthcare access · environmental pollution · dehumanization · mob mentality · state power

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Distance: 0.1278

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Cover of Paradyzja by Janusz A. Zajdel

Paradyzja

Janusz A. Zajdel · 1984

An inspector reaches an isolated orbital colony where propaganda, surveillance, and coded speech conceal a deeper truth.

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Themes labels: censorship · propaganda · privacy · freedom · totalitarianism · manipulation · control · dehumanization · truth · hope · resistance · social ranking · loss of autonomy · political allegory · technology and power

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Distance: 0.1279

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Reaper's Run

David VanDyke, Ryan King · 2013 · Plague Wars

A wounded Marine regenerates in a plague-ravaged America and escapes a government hunting the infected.

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Themes labels: state power · freedom vs control · civil liberties · propaganda · mass fear · moral transformation · human nature · social division · dehumanization · survival · identity after trauma · censorship · conscience · virtue · security state

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Distance: 0.1297

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Cover of Numbers Game by Rebecca Rode

Numbers Game

Rebecca Rode · 2015 · Numbers Game

In a ranked future society, a teen’s shocking low score sends her undercover into a military spy hunt.

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Themes labels: social control · classism · identity · worth and value · conformity · rebellion · corruption · freedom · truth seeking · surveillance · propaganda · agency · morality · dehumanization · appearance and status

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Distance: 0.1301

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Cover of After The Revolution by Robert Evans

After The Revolution

Robert Evans · 2022

In 2070, three survivors navigate a fractured America and race to stop a violent theocratic advance.

Why this is here

Themes labels: civil war · fascism · religious extremism · propaganda · trauma · PTSD · radicalization · state collapse · violence · moral ambiguity · survival · humanity · empathy · war ethics · oppression · resistance · polarization · dehumanization · posthumanism · identity

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Distance: 0.1346

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Обитаемый остров

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий · 2008 · Максим Каммерер / Maxim Kammerer

A utopian Earth explorer crash-lands on a radioactive world and gets pulled into its brutal power struggle.

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Themes labels: authoritarianism · totalitarianism · propaganda · censorship · state violence · war · anti-war · morality · justice · freedom · truth vs lies · ideology · social critique · political allegory · power and corruption · indoctrination · dehumanization · human nature · progress · utopianism · intervention · ends justify means · environmental devastation · radiation · nationalism · class conflict · bureaucracy · surveillance

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Il richiamo del corno

Sarban · 2015

A traumatized British POW wakes in a Nazi-dominated future and must survive a grotesque hunting estate.

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Themes labels: authoritarianism · fascism · dehumanization · cruelty · sadism · eugenics · hunting · power and control · trauma · sanity and madness · sexual violence · human animal boundary · morality · history as nightmare · postwar anxiety

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Distance: 0.1385

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Cover of Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin

Day of the Oprichnik

Vladimir Sorokin · 2011 · Oprichnik's Russia

A secret policeman’s single day in a future Moscow exposes a grotesque, hyper-violent, satirical authoritarian regime.

Why this is here

Themes labels: authoritarianism · state violence · nationalism · religion and power · corruption · hypocrisy · propaganda · historical cyclicality · nostalgia · masculinity · impunity · censorship · xenophobia · moral decay · complicity · imperial restoration · prophecy · class privilege · patriotism · dehumanization

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Distance: 0.1388

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Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh · 2023

A brainwashed teen soldier on a ruined space station escapes into a bigger, stranger war that challenges everything she believes.

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Themes labels: indoctrination · fascism · propaganda · deradicalization · patriarchy · gender essentialism · war trauma · moral responsibility · humanity · revenge · complicity · choice · freedom · identity · oppression · dehumanization · racism · homophobia · transphobia · eugenics · violence · child abuse · family

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