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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Made in Korea. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: emotional, cautionary, eerie, visceral, sweet, dark, brave, disturbing, unsettling

Premise labels used: artificial intelligence, android child, adoptive family, identity crisis, gender identity, coming of age, sentient AI, manufactured child, self-discovery, family system

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The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast

Tom King · 2016 · The Vision (2015)

A synthetic family’s fragile suburban normalcy collapses as love, destiny, and secrets pull Vision toward tragedy.

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Tone labels: dark · bleak · sad · tragic · eerie · chilling · heartbreaking · melancholic · sombre · unsettling · sweet · tender · off-kilter · sinister

Premise labels: android family · synthetic life · suburban family drama · identity quest · humanity search · domestic tragedy · marital fallout · family crisis

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Distance: 0.1474

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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · 2013

A girl grows up with her android tutor as love, identity, and robot rights reshape both their lives.

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Tone labels: melancholic · haunting · heartbreaking · sad · bittersweet · angsty · gloomy · depressing · reflective · poignant · emotional · brooding · tender

Premise labels: android tutor · forbidden love · coming of age · robot rights · artificial intelligence · human-machine relationship · isolated childhood · first love · identity crisis

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Distance: 0.1515

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The Vision

Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta · 2018 · The Vision (2015)

An android builds a suburban family and learns that passing as normal can become a tragic, deadly experiment.

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Tone labels: dark · somber · melancholy · tragic · haunting · creepy · bittersweet · poetic · ominous · philosophical · sad · unsettling

Premise labels: synthetic family · android identity · normal life · suburban family · humanity quest · belonging quest · family drama · social integration · secret domesticity · ordinary life

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Distance: 0.1584

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Annie Bot

Sierra Greer · 2024

An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.

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Tone labels: uncomfortable · creepy · disturbing · dark · bleak · tense · provocative · thought-provoking · emotional · infuriating · unsettling · haunting · suspenseful · heartbreaking · grossly disturbing

Premise labels: AI companion · perfect girlfriend · sentient robot · ownership and control · autonomy struggle · abusive relationship · identity awakening · human-machine bond · self-awareness · female agency

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Distance: 0.1612

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.

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Tone labels: quiet · haunting · sad · hopeful · melancholic · tender · unsettling · understated · whimsical · eerie

Premise labels: artificial friend · robot companion · near future · genetic enhancement · lonely child · humanity question · what is love · what makes a person · class inequality · distant narrator

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Distance: 0.1616

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Hum

Helen Phillips · 2024

After losing her job to AI, a mother takes a risky deal that buys her family a brief escape into a climate-ravaged, overtracked future.

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Tone labels: anxious · disturbing · uneasy · bleak · urgent · claustrophobic · chilling · unsettling · grim · oppressive · plausible horror

Premise labels: AI job loss · surveillance state · face-alteration experiment · technology dependence · family survival · nature refuge · parental protection · consumerism critique · climate collapse

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Distance: 0.1680

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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A linked collection of future stories, led by a haunting robot-child tale about love, identity, and what makes someone human.

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Tone labels: bleak · melancholic · sad · dark · cynical · pessimistic · disturbing · poetic · satirical · acid humor · cold · distanced

Premise labels: artificial child · android child · parent-child bond · future society · identity crisis · existential search · social satire · technological future · humanity test · emotional AI

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Distance: 0.1696

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The Veldt

Ray Bradbury · 1987

A futuristic family’s automated home and immersive nursery turn from convenience into a terrifying test of control.

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Tone labels: creepy · chilling · unsettling · dark · terrifying · eerie · suspenseful · disturbing · cautionary

Premise labels: smart home · virtual reality room · technology overreach · family in crisis · cautionary tale · children's influence

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Distance: 0.1716

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The Perfect Wife

J.P. Delaney · 2019

A grieving tech CEO recreates his missing wife as an AI companion, but her memories uncover dangerous truths.

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Tone labels: creepy · disturbing · thought-provoking · dark · suspenseful · unsettling · tense · eerie · weird · wild · riveting · mind-bending · cautionary

Premise labels: missing spouse · AI replica · robot wife · memory loss · marital deception · tech company · artificial intelligence · identity mystery · perfect family · cobot

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Distance: 0.1731

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Whoever You Are, Honey

Olivia Gatwood · 2024

In gentrified Santa Cruz, two guarded women form a friendship that exposes buried secrets, control, and possible artificiality.

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Tone labels: darkly brilliant · strange · eerie · seductive · prescient · unsettling · atmospheric · dreamlike · quiet · lyrical · moody · vulnerable · gripping · messy · vivid

Premise labels: female friendship · loneliness · identity · memory loss · AI · tech elite · gendered control · male gaze · body image · queer shame · found family · social isolation · secret pasts · desire

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Distance: 0.1742

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Portalmania: Stories

Debbie Urbanski · 2025

A genre-bending short story collection where portals, marriages, and identity crises expose the costs of escape and desire.

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Tone labels: dark · bleak · haunting · uncanny · unsettling · disturbing · melancholic · emotional · harrowing · sly humor · whimsical · ominous · raw

Premise labels: portals · escape · alternate realities · identity · otherness · desire · marriage · motherhood · family conflict · transformation

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Distance: 0.1755

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Soft Science

Franny Choi · 2019

A poetry collection uses cyborgs and Turing tests to probe queer Asian American identity, language, and survival.

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Tone labels: lyrical · elegant · experimental · cerebral · sinister · bitter · existential · tender · aching · intense · bizarre · fierce · unsettling · sinuous

Premise labels: queer identity · Asian American femininity · consciousness · artificial intelligence · automation · Turing test · humanity · survival · violence · alienation

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1767

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