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Themes labels used: meritocracy, free speech, censorship, political correctness, groupthink, social conformity, intellectual elitism, anti-elitism, education, oppression, identity politics, truth vs ideology, cultural hypocrisy, fear of offense, mob mentality

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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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Invisible Things

Mat Johnson · 2022

A sociologist on a Jupiter mission discovers a domed human colony whose hidden order mirrors Earth’s political failures.

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Themes labels: class inequality · racism · classism · colorism · greed · power · denial · collective blindness · propaganda · truth vs comfort · democracy · fascism · political corruption · election theft · assimilation · social stratification · denialism · human nature · existential dread · fear of truth · societal collapse · moral compromise

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Differently Morphous

Yahtzee Croshaw · 2018 · DEDA Files

A secret British occult agency must solve a magical serial-killer case after the hidden world is exposed to the public.

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Themes labels: political correctness · identity politics · social media · bureaucracy · public scrutiny · secret-keeping · otherness · minority metaphor · civil rights · tolerance · bigotry · refugee policy · free speech · social commentary · satire · morality of fear · power and responsibility

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Cover of Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk

Adjustment Day

Chuck Palahniuk · 2019

A satirical dystopia follows a violent American revolution that splits society into separate nations by identity.

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Themes labels: political extremism · social division · identity politics · conspiracy · propaganda · power · violence · class resentment · race · sexuality · masculinity · anti-intellectualism · social decay · free thought · art and politics

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Revolt in 2100

Robert A. Heinlein · 1986 · Future History

A future America ruled by religious dictatorship sparks revolt, then shifts into two linked stories of social control and survival.

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Themes labels: freedom · liberty · justice · religious authoritarianism · totalitarianism · political oppression · propaganda · mind control · individualism · revolution · civil liberties · social conformity · libertarianism · government overreach · sexual freedom · hypocrisy · education control · mob psychology · tolerance paradox · faith and power

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Cover of 1984: The Graphic Novel by Fido Nesti

1984: The Graphic Novel

Fido Nesti, George Orwell · 2021

A faithful graphic retelling of Orwell’s dystopia, following one man’s forbidden awakening under total surveillance.

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Themes labels: totalitarianism · freedom · privacy · propaganda · historical revisionism · truth and lies · censorship · language control · indocrination · individualism · conformity · fear · violence · class control · memory · political oppression

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1985

Anthony Burgess · 1978

A hybrid essay-and-novella response to Orwell that critiques 1984 and imagines a harsher, union-dominated Britain.

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Themes labels: freedom · totalitarianism · political control · censorship · truth · language and thought · education · culture decline · labor politics · union power · socialism · individualism · religious fundamentalism · multicultural tension · sexual politics · class and equality · prophecy and speculation

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Cover of The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

The Constant Rabbit

Jasper Fforde · 2020

In an alternate UK, a rabbit spotter must choose sides when a rabbit family moves in next door.

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Themes labels: racism · xenophobia · anti-immigration · prejudice · othering · speciesism · privilege · bystander effect · complicity · segregation · assimilation · cultural integration · political hypocrisy · fascism · populism · class anxiety · community belonging · moral courage · social justice · identity

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Blind Faith

Ben Elton · 2008

In a flooded, theocratic future, one privacy-loving man quietly resists a world built on compulsory sharing and blind faith.

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Themes labels: privacy · surveillance · religion vs science · blind faith · conformity · individualism · groupthink · censorship · anti-vaccination · consumerism · celebrity culture · social media · truth vs belief · ignorance · humanism · freedom of thought · mob mentality · hypocrisy · reality TV culture · over-sharing

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Cover of The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

The Ten Percent Thief

Lavanya Lakshminarayan · 2023

In future Apex City, a merit-score society fractures as a hidden thief and rising unrest challenge its corporate order.

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Themes labels: meritocracy · capitalism · social inequality · productivity · conformity · surveillance · technology dependence · social media · classism · dehumanization · consumerism · climate crisis · identity · freedom · revolution · humanity · body autonomy · reproductive rights · work culture

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