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

Themes labels used: ethics of experimentation, sleep deprivation, madness, human limits, scientific arrogance, power, control, obsession, exploitation, morality, sanity, manipulation

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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

Themes labels: scientific ethics · human limits · danger of progress · hubris · identity · transformation · body horror · time · mortality · consequences of experimentation · knowledge and responsibility

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Doktor Ox'un Deneyi

Jules Verne · 2017

A mysterious scientist’s free lighting project secretly turns a tranquil town volatile through an unseen gas experiment.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · secret experiment · small town · social experiment · free lighting project · gas experiment · scientific interference · human temperament

Themes labels: science ethics · scientific hubris · free will · human nature · temperament · social satire · morality and science · chemical influence · crowd behavior · civilization critique · decision-making · authority and power

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The Breakthrough

Daphne du Maurier · 2018

An engineer is drawn into a secret coastal experiment probing life after death, with unsettling ethical consequences.

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Premise labels: mad science · life after death · scientific ethics · secret experiment · metaphysical inquiry · mad scientist

Themes labels: ethics of science · morality · life and death · afterlife · consciousness · human expendability · consent · abuse of power · limits of knowledge · grief · religion and science · playing god

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The Vital Abyss

James S.A. Corey · 2015 · The Expanse

A captive scientist recounts the hidden backstory behind a disastrous secret research program in the Expanse universe.

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Premise labels: prisoners in captivity · scientist backstory · morally compromised research · protomolecule research · secret experiment aftermath · character study

Themes labels: morality · ethics of science · human ambition · survival · dehumanization · accountability · moral compromise · self-justification · consequence of experimentation

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · ambition · forbidden knowledge · unnatural life · ethical experiment · created being · abandoned creation · responsibility

Themes labels: humanity · ethics of science · hubris · responsibility · othering · isolation · loneliness · rejection · prejudice · ambition · good and evil · monstrosity · social influence · knowledge and consequences · mourning · revenge · identity · acceptance · nature of evil

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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 1897

A reclusive scientist makes himself invisible, only to spiral into fear, crime, and violent ruin.

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Premise labels: invisibility · mad scientist · science experiment gone wrong · power corrupts · wanted criminal

Themes labels: moral consequence · unchecked ambition · identity · isolation · alienation · power and corruption · visibility · human nature · social fear · responsibility · conscience · madness · anonymity · dehumanization · consequences of experiment

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The Terminal Man

Michael Crichton · 2002

An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.

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Premise labels: experimental surgery · brain implant · neurotechnology · mind control · violent seizures · computer-brain interface · machine fear · medical intervention gone wrong · human vs machine · technological overreach

Themes labels: medical ethics · human experimentation · technological risk · free will · identity · sanity · paranoia · control · mind-body relation · science and morality · hubris · dehumanization · overreliance on technology · brain and behavior · psychological intervention · playing God

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Awakened

Laura Elliott · 2025

In a post-sleep apocalypse, guilt-ridden scientists trapped in the Tower of London race to cure the monsters they helped create.

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Premise labels: sleep elimination · neural chip · scientific hubris · post-apocalypse · cure search · guilt-driven survival · humanity question · medical ethics · productive capitalism · monstrous transformation

Themes labels: humanity · ethics · medical ethics · scientific responsibility · hubris · guilt · survival · autonomy · productivity culture · capitalism · disability · chronic illness · sleep · rest · memory · identity · personhood · othering · progress · greater good · ableism · sanity · madness · free will · body-mind divide

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The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

William Sloane · 2015

Two 1930s novellas unite science, mystery, and dread as brilliant men confront deaths, secrets, and the unknown.

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Premise labels: cosmic horror · scientific mystery · forbidden knowledge · investigation · locked-room death · communication with the dead · scientific experiment · otherworldly intrusion · grief-driven obsession · unexplained phenomenon

Themes labels: human limits · forbidden knowledge · death and the soul · grief · loss · obsession · epistemic uncertainty · human insignificance · science versus the unknown · realism versus the irrational · moral judgment · knowledge at a cost

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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

Themes labels: limits of perception · human senses · reality beyond appearances · scientific hubris · forbidden knowledge · madness · cosmic insignificance · curiosity and consequences · technology and danger · existential fear

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To Protect

Mickey Zucker Reichert · 2011 · I, Robot (Reichert)

A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.

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Premise labels: hospital conspiracy · medical experimentation · mind-reading technology · nanotechnology · robotics ethics · child patients · psychiatric residency · near-future medicine · experimental treatment · hidden sabotage · human mind

Themes labels: ethics · medical ethics · artificial intelligence · human behavior · nature vs nurture · mental illness · child welfare · technology and fear · progress versus backlash · professional responsibility · scientific discovery · public distrust · control and autonomy · honest mistake · life and death

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Quantum Night

Robert J. Sawyer · 2016

A psychologist who can spot psychopaths uncovers a missing six months of his own life and a theory that could alter humanity.

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Premise labels: psychopathy detection · human consciousness · quantum mind · missing memory · race against time · utilitarian dilemma · global unrest · human nature

Themes labels: consciousness · conscience · psychopathy · morality · utilitarianism · free will · human nature · ethics · social control · mob mentality · violence · hate · identity · memory · determinism · prejudice · dehumanization · greater good · collective responsibility

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