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Roque Larraquy

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These books are ranked using the characterization + relationships labels extracted for The National Telepathy. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Characterization labels used: power-hungry men, white men, racist men, conservative men, bureaucrats, indigenous peoples, unnamed assistant, rubber magnate, committee men, officials

Relationships labels used: power imbalance, colonizer and colonized, manager-subordinate, state control, collective exploitation, sexual telepathy, institutional complicity, class domination

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization + relationships embeddings are close.

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Exterminator!

William S. Burroughs

A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2055

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Transhumanism Inc.

Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин · 2021 · Tranhumanism Inc.

In a far-future world of brain jars, chips, and class control, linked stories probe power, love, and what remains human.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2137

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Рассказы о Родине

Dmitry Glukhovsky, Дмитрий Глуховский · 2010

A satirical short-story collection uses surreal, SF-tinged fables to skewer modern Russia’s power, corruption, and myths.

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Distance: 0.2165

Cover of The Boys, Volume 5: Herogasm by Garth Ennis

The Boys, Volume 5: Herogasm

Garth Ennis · 2009 · The Boys (Trade Paperbacks)

A fake world-saving crossover hides a secret superhero orgy while The Boys infiltrate a deeper political conspiracy.

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Distance: 0.2218

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Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

Chris Kempshall · 2024

An in-universe historian reconstructs the Galactic Empire’s rise, rule, and collapse through archives, footnotes, and analysis.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2367

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The Palace of Dreams

Ismail Kadare · 1998

A young bureaucrat enters a ministry that collects and interprets citizens’ dreams to detect threats to the empire.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2427

Cover of Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1997

A farm animal uprising for equality turns into a chilling study of propaganda, power, and betrayal.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2477

Cover of The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs · 1994 · The Nova Trilogy

A cut-up sci-fi nightmare of addiction, control, and bodily horror, told in fragments that resist linear sense.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2507

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.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2508

Cover of The World Inside by Robert Silverberg

The World Inside

Robert Silverberg · 1990

In a sealed future tower society, one citizen’s dissatisfaction opens a disturbing look at overpopulation, sex, and control.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2511

Cover of Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein

Sixth Column

Robert A. Heinlein · 1999

In occupied America, six survivors use a secret breakthrough and a fake faith to spark a hidden rebellion.

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Distance: 0.2522

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Day of the Oprichnik

Vladimir Sorokin · 2011 · Oprichnik's Russia

A secret policeman’s single day in a future Moscow exposes a grotesque, hyper-violent, satirical authoritarian regime.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2523

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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Distance: 0.2547

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2009 · The Windup Universe

In flood-threatened Bangkok, rival powers battle over food, seeds, and engineered lives in a bleak biotech future.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2551

Cover of Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm / 1984

George Orwell · 2003

Two Orwell classics in one volume: an allegorical farm revolt and a grim surveillance-state dystopia about power, control, and truth.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2554

Cover of Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

Goliath

Tochi Onyebuchi · 2022

In a near-future US emptied by off-world flight, those left behind struggle to survive as the past comes back to claim Earth.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2567

Cover of Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

Martian Time-Slip

Philip K. Dick · 2002

On a water-starved Mars, a repairman, a union boss, and an autistic boy become entangled in a scheme to profit from the future.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2575

Cover of Radiant Star by Ann Leckie

Radiant Star

Ann Leckie · 2026 · Imperial Radch

On an isolated colony-world, occupation, religious factionalism, and supply collapse turn one ritual choice into citywide crisis.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2583

Cover of Lunar Discovery: Let the Space Race Begin by Salvador Mercer

Lunar Discovery: Let the Space Race Begin

Salvador Mercer · 2015 · Discovery Series

A near-future lunar discovery sparks a tense U.S.-China-Russia race to reach an alien artifact first.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2583

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Lost Ark Dreaming

Suyi Davies Okungbowa · 2024

In flooded future Lagos, three tower residents uncover a hidden threat that could upend a rigid class society.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2584

Cover of Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 2004 · Foundation (Publication Order)

A predictive scientist tries to shorten a coming galactic dark age by seeding a remote colony to preserve knowledge.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2598

Cover of The Integral Trees by Larry Niven

The Integral Trees

Larry Niven · 1985 · The State

A stranded human colony in a free-fall gas ring must survive as their strange tree-world and its politics unravel.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2608

Cover of Salomé by Elaine Vilar Madruga

Salomé

Elaine Vilar Madruga · 2018

In a far-future empire, a mysterious captive creature ignites desire, fear, and political collapse among the powerful.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2610

Cover of Pax Romana by Jonathan Hickman

Pax Romana

Jonathan Hickman · 2009 · Pax Romana

A Vatican-backed time-travel mission to ancient Rome fractures into power struggles, ideology, and an altered history.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization + relationships

Distance: 0.2611