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Premise labels used: sleep deprivation experiment, forbidden experiment, scientific hubris, mad scientist, psychological breakdown, ethics of science, urban legend retelling

Setting labels used: Cold War Soviet Union, 2018, University campus, UC Berkeley, laboratory, soon-to-be demolished building, political prison

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The Singularity

Dino Buzzati · 2024

A professor is sent to a secret mountain project that turns out to hide a startling experiment in machine consciousness.

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Premise labels: secret project · artificial intelligence · machine consciousness · human mind transfer · reviving the dead · woman in machine · scientific ambition · hidden research facility · top-secret government project · consciousness experiment

Setting labels: Cold War era · remote mountains · isolated compound · military zone · secret research facility · wilderness setting · high altitude

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Distance: 0.2789

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The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

Tade Thompson · 2022 · Molly Southbourne

As Molly and her surviving doubles try to build a life, buried Cold War secrets and old enemies hunt them down.

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Premise labels: blood clones · murderous doubles · duplicate survival · covert experiment · spy conspiracy · family under threat · hidden backstory · post-experiment fallout

Setting labels: cold war · soviet lab · iron curtain · west · modern thriller setting · international espionage · secret facilities · home under siege

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Distance: 0.2919

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La mosca - Relatos del antimundo

George Langelaan · 2001 · Antología Luis de Caralt

A scientist’s matter-transmission experiment goes horribly wrong, and a murder confession hides the reason.

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Premise labels: scientist gone wrong · matter transmission · forbidden experiment · murder mystery · body transformation · scientific hubris

Setting labels: France · French setting · scientific laboratory · factory

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Distance: 0.2935

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Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov, Михаил Булгаков, Michail Bulgakov · 1990

A starving Moscow stray becomes the subject of a reckless experiment, with grotesque and satirical fallout.

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Premise labels: dog transformation · body transformation · scientific experiment · unexpected consequences · new man · class conflict · social satire · state critique · anti-authoritarian satire

Setting labels: Soviet Moscow · 1920s Moscow · winter setting · urban streets · apartment interior · scientific laboratory · post-revolution society · early Soviet era

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Distance: 0.2944

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As She Climbed Across the Table

Jonathan Lethem · 1998

A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.

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Premise labels: love triangle · unrequited love · void entity · created phenomenon · scientific discovery · academic rivalry · relationship disruption · obsession

Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting

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The Fatal Eggs

Mikhail Bulgakov, Михаил Булгаков · 2005

A Russian zoologist’s accidental scientific breakthrough is commandeered by the state, with disastrous results.

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Premise labels: scientific discovery · government interference · bureaucratic misuse · food shortage · experiment gone wrong · catastrophic consequence · state appropriation · science and power

Setting labels: 1920s Moscow · Soviet Russia · post-revolutionary Russia · near future · laboratory setting · rural countryside · state bureaucracy

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Distance: 0.2986

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The Last Oracle

James Rollins · 2008 · Sigma Force

A Sigma Force team races from Delphi to Chernobyl to stop a bioengineered prophecy plot tied to ancient secrets.

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Premise labels: ancient relic · bioengineering conspiracy · world threat · prophet creation · race against time · secret science · lost children · amnesia mystery · parallel quests · global catastrophe

Setting labels: Washington, D.C. · Greece · India · Russia · Chernobyl · Ural mountains · radioactive wasteland · subterranean facility · ancient Greece · Cold War era · post-WWII world · international

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From Beyond

H.P. Lovecraft · 1934

A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror

Setting labels: Providence · attic laboratory · house setting · early 20th century · urban gothic · alternate reality

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Fantastic Voyage

Isaac Asimov · 1988 · Fantastic Voyage

A miniaturized rescue team races through a scientist’s body to remove a deadly clot before time runs out.

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Premise labels: miniaturization · inner-body journey · medical rescue · race against time · sabotage threat · cold war espionage

Setting labels: Cold War era · inside the human body · bloodstream · brain · carotid artery · microscopic scale · experimental sub

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Distance: 0.3037

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Exoskeleton

Shane Stadler · 2012 · Exoskeleton

A wrongly convicted man chooses a secret one-year program over prison, only to enter a torture-driven transformation.

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Premise labels: wrongly convicted prisoner · experimental punishment · torture device · body transformation · redemption choice · secret program · state punishment · scientific experiment · metaphysical transformation · origin story

Setting labels: near future · experimental facility · prison system · secret government program · medical/treatment facility · correctional program · claustrophobic setting

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Professor Dowell's Head

Alexander Belyaev · 1981

A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.

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Premise labels: reanimated head · human experimentation · mad scientist · medical breakthrough · body transplants · ethical dilemma · scientific ambition · living heads

Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum

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The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule

Jonathan Hickman · 2013 · The Manhattan Projects

Mad scientists and secret powers clash in an alternate Cold War of conspiracies, violence, and world-scale ambition.

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Premise labels: mad science · alternate history · cold war · world domination · scientists vs power · secret conspiracy · space race · power struggle

Setting labels: alternate history · cold war era · 1950s · postwar America · Soviet Union · space program · secret world · surreal reality

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