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Themes labels used: freedom vs stability, individuality, social control, consumerism, propaganda, overpopulation, passivity, dehumanization, happiness vs freedom, science and ethics, collectivism, mass conditioning, free will, suppressed emotion, class stratification, family abolition

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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 2004 · Brave New World

In a pleasure-driven future where citizens are engineered and conditioned for obedience, one outsider questions the cost of happiness.

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Themes labels: freedom · happiness · conformity · consumerism · social control · individuality · technology · conditioning · class hierarchy · desire · art vs utility · religion vs state · progress · humanity · dehumanization · capitalism · totalitarianism · stability vs freedom · meaninglessness · passivity

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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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Themes labels: freedom versus happiness · individualism · conformity · totalitarianism · surveillance · rationalism · emotion versus logic · imagination · identity · dehumanization · collectivism · power and control · technocracy · truth versus propaganda · revolution · censorship · human nature · privacy · social engineering

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Rendición

Ray Loriga · 2017

A war-displaced family is moved to a transparent city where safety, comfort, and happiness come with total loss of privacy.

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Themes labels: freedom vs safety · identity · obedience · conformity · privacy · surveillance · loss · adaptation · human nature · collective control · war · propaganda · memory · paternity · affection · individuality · resistance · dehumanization · selfhood · happiness · choice · exile · truth vs illusion

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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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Themes labels: freedom versus control · social inequality · dehumanization · technological control · manipulation · corruption · meritocracy · intelligence and status · consumerism · surveillance · social criticism · censorship · utopia critique · social justice · human agency · careerism · comfort versus freedom · meaning of life

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The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood · 2015 · Positron

A destitute married couple joins a utopian prison-town experiment, only to find security comes with disturbing costs.

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Themes labels: freedom vs security · control · survival · poverty · consumerism · capitalism · corporate greed · incarceration · free will · choice · love · obsession · desire · female victimization · patriarchy · human nature · social engineering · propaganda · illusion vs reality · morality · power

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Cover of Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley · 2004 · Brave New World

Huxley revisits Brave New World’s ideas in a set of essays on propaganda, overpopulation, and freedom under modern pressures.

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Themes labels: freedom · propaganda · overpopulation · social control · democracy · totalitarianism · brainwashing · conditioning · manipulation · consumerism · mass persuasion · technology · education · censorship · human nature · liberty · tyranny · civilization · happiness vs freedom · population pressure

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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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Themes labels: freedom · control · individuality · conformity · choice · surveillance · conditioning · drug dependence · genetic engineering · collectivism · propaganda · truth · obedience · equality vs liberty · moral ambiguity · human nature · selfhood · social engineering · utopia critique · political allegory

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I'm Starved for You

Margaret Atwood · 2012 · Positron

In a near-future gated community, a married couple’s monthly prison exchange is disrupted by a forbidden note and obsession.

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Themes labels: social control · freedom vs security · economic insecurity · survival · human nature · desire · obsession · jealousy · sexuality · consumerism · utopia vs dystopia · identity · marital alienation · class inequality · prison industrialism · civil liberties · social reform

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vN

Madeline Ashby · 2012 · The Machine Dynasty

A self-replicating android girl goes on the run after a deadly outburst exposes a broken failsafe and a dangerous secret.

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Themes labels: choice · free will · identity · personhood · nature versus nurture · autonomy · selfhood · parenting · love · dependency · humanity · slavery · exploitation · ethics of AI · moral responsibility · maturity · belonging · otherness · social control · body politics · consent · violence against vulnerable beings · religious futurism · class oppression

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A Touch of Death

Rebecca Crunden · 2022 · The Outlands Pentalogy

In a brutal far-future kingdom, two mismatched fugitives flee into mutant-haunted wilderness after a mysterious infection upends their lives.

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Themes labels: freedom vs control · rebellion · class inequality · authoritarianism · survival · truth and ignorance · political awakening · social oppression · fear and compliance · loyalty · betrayal · humanity · coming of age · moral hypocrisy

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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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