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Åsa Ericsdotter

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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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Acide sulfurique

Amélie Nothomb · 2005

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

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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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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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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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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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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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The Man Who Japed

Philip K. Dick · 1956

In a post-nuclear surveillance society, a propaganda man’s secret prank against the regime threatens his career and conscience.

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Themes labels: freedom vs conformity · moralism · censorship · surveillance · propaganda · social control · rebellion · humor as resistance · witch hunt · private life · public morality · individuality · hypocrisy · fear of contamination · political oppression · control of language · media manipulation · morality and power

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Cover of They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

They: A Sequence of Unease

Kay Dick · 1977

In a hazy British dystopia, an unnamed narrator watches artists and solitary people survive escalating attacks on creativity.

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Themes labels: censorship · art and power · individualism · conformity · freedom of expression · intellectual freedom · identity · memory · surveillance · fear · paranoia · resistance · communication · love · emotion suppression · authoritarianism · mass culture · social control · anti-intellectualism · beauty vs violence

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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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Themes labels: totalitarianism · freedom vs control · truth vs lies · memory and history · language and thought · propaganda · surveillance · brainwashing · individuality · collectivism · power hunger · censorship · fear · resistance · identity · manipulation · privacy · humanity · love · war as control

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Cover of Our Friends From Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick

Our Friends From Frolix 8

Philip K. Dick · 1977

In a future Earth ruled by psychic and superintelligent elites, an ordinary laborer gets pulled into revolt and alien intervention.

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Themes labels: authoritarianism · social inequality · class struggle · meritocracy · surveillance · paranoia · propaganda · power imbalance · political motivation · individual dignity · freedom · control · elitism · resistance · hope · compassion · religious allegory · identity · reality

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