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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

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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.

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Characterization labels: outsiders · junkies · cops · priests · bureaucrats · secret agents · pederast figures · revolutionary figures · misanthropic voices · alter ego · unsavory characters · antiheroes

Relationships labels: power imbalance · control and obedience · betrayal · community under pressure · sexual exploitation · rivalry with authority

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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.

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Characterization labels: elite · oligarchs · rulers · servants · biorobots · banked brains · brokers of power · cynical figures

Relationships labels: power hierarchy · class domination · servitude · elite-client dependence · generational conflict · romance · romantic desire · coercive social relations

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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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Characterization labels: oligarchs · bureaucrats · politicians · militiaman · ordinary people · working class · bureaucratic actors · powerful elite · honest protagonist · cynical characters

Relationships labels: elite vs ordinary people · power imbalance · citizen-state conflict · ruler-ruled conflict · corruption networks · social hierarchy · class divide · bureaucratic oppression · authority and dissent · community under pressure

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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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Characterization labels: corrupt heroes · antiheroes · villainous heroes · corporate handlers · political operators · cynical vigilantes · unhinged superhuman · moral hypocrites

Relationships labels: power imbalance · corporate control · government collusion · team infiltration · rivalry · betrayal · secret service · hero-vs-vigilante · group orgy

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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.

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Characterization labels: historian protagonist · bureaucrats · ordinary people · dictator · evil ruler · military leaders · propagandists · resistance fighter · fascist enablers · complicit citizens

Relationships labels: state and citizen · ruler and bureaucracy · resistance and empire · victim and perpetrator · power and complicity · authoritarian dependency · collaboration · rebellion · institutional control · postwar reckoning

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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.

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Characterization labels: young man · bureaucrat · docile protagonist · fearful protagonist · isolated protagonist · passive protagonist · uncomprehending outsider · powerful family scion

Relationships labels: family power · political patronage · state and subject · authority and obedience · alienation · isolation · power struggle · institutional dependency

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Distance: 0.2427

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Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1997

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

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Characterization labels: working class · ruthless leader · propagandist · true believer · cynical observer · hard worker · gullible masses · corrupt elite · intellectual elite · bullies · opportunists

Relationships labels: class conflict · leader and followers · oppressor and oppressed · betrayal · power struggle · group loyalty · collective action · guard dogs · propaganda influence

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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.

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Characterization labels: junkies · rent boys · agents · police · corrupt figures · outsiders · marginalized figures · antiheroes · predators · victims · unstable characters

Relationships labels: power struggle · exploitation · predation · control and resistance · sexual coercion · authoritarian control · community under pressure · host-body relation

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Limes inferior

Janusz A. Zajdel · 1997

In a tightly controlled future city, a streetwise fixer uncovers the truth behind an apparently fair social order.

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Characterization labels: lifter · smuggler · cunning protagonist · intelligent protagonist · marginal figure · gray-area operator · flat characters · underdeveloped cast · stereotyped women · male-dominated cast

Relationships labels: system versus individual · citizen hierarchy · power asymmetry · class stratification · informal networks · underworld contacts · gender hierarchy · dependency on system

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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.

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Characterization labels: dissidents · bureaucrats · engineers · historians · musicians · administrators · young adults · male-centered cast · women with limited agency · conformists · malcontents · reprogrammed citizens

Relationships labels: marriage · nonmonogamy · mate-sharing · sexual access · power hierarchy · community pressure · family units · parent-child expectations · social conformity · rivalry · dependency

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Distance: 0.2511

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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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Characterization labels: small team · scientists · military officers · civilian helper · advertising man · lawyer-turned-hobo · anarchist · resourceful · patriotic · self-reliant · ragtag group · male-dominated cast · thinly drawn characters · stereotyped characters · competent heroes · inventive heroes

Relationships labels: resistance comrades · command hierarchy · occupier-oppressed · us-versus-them · collective action · leader and team · power imbalance · friendship under pressure · community organizing · mistrust between groups

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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.

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Characterization labels: anti-hero · state enforcer · secret police officer · fanatical patriot · corrupt official · violent sadist · obedient loyalist · cynical hypocrite · drug user · privileged elite

Relationships labels: power hierarchy · brotherhood · state loyalty · patriarchal power · state violence · sexual coercion · betrayal · brotherhood bonding · master-servant · elite complicity · ruler-subject

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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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Characterization labels: ordinary man · dissident · state employee · forbidden lover · authoritarian rulers · thought police · elite class · oppressed populace · controlled citizenry

Relationships labels: forbidden romance · secret alliance · state versus citizen · power imbalance · surveillance · betrayal · resistance network · romantic relationship

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: morally gray · corrupt elites · unsympathetic characters · ambitious strivers · refugees · corporate spy · civil servant · engineered slave · survivalist · antiheroic · traumatized · outsider

Relationships labels: power imbalance · master-servant · sexual exploitation · corporate rivalry · political intrigue · betrayal · dependency · refugee experience · cross-cultural tension · romantic fixation · community survival

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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.

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Characterization labels: naive protagonist · corrupt rulers · oppressed masses · animal stand-ins · moral inversion · obedient enforcer · idealistic rebel · complacent bystander · loyal worker · propaganda mouthpiece

Relationships labels: power struggle · master-slave dynamic · ruler and ruled · comradeship · romantic relationship · betrayal · class conflict · collective conformity · loyalty and abandonment

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Distance: 0.2554

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: ensemble cast · marginalized characters · working-class characters · poor communities · Black characters · Brown characters · queer characters · white colonists · wealthy elites · journalist · marshal · laborers · space-dweller · community-centered · survivors · systemically forgotten · ruling-class privilege

Relationships labels: community · family · lover · reconnection · colonizer-colonized · class divide · racial divide · white flight · power imbalance · betrayal · dependence · neighbor networks · collective survival · off-world return · gentrification dynamics

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Distance: 0.2567

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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.

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Characterization labels: repairman · union boss · corrupt businessman · autistic child · schizophrenic adult · indigenous outsider · bored housewife · speculator · bureaucrat · precognitive child · misanthropic figure · outsider protagonist · flawed ensemble · morally compromised cast · sympathetic outsider

Relationships labels: family · marriage · adultery · father-son · power imbalance · exploitation · dependency · servitude · community conflict · rivalry · domestic strain · colonizer-colonized · employer-employee

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Distance: 0.2575

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: ensemble cast · bureaucrat · governor · religious savant · cleric · business elite · socialite · servant · enslaved character · ambitious · self-interested · sympathetic underdog · morally gray · unlikable characters · character-driven

Relationships labels: occupation hierarchy · religious faction rivalry · family conflict · parent-child · servitude · patronage · consort relationship · community unrest · power imbalance · interpersonal dysfunction

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Distance: 0.2583

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: scientists · engineers · astronauts · politicians · mission controllers · bureaucrats · courageous heroes · stereotypical characters · thin characterization · flat characters

Relationships labels: team dynamics · crew coordination · international rivalry · nation-state conflict · bureaucratic oversight · political control · cooperation under pressure · family

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: analyst · bureaucrat · government worker · civil servant · mechanic · engineer · foreman · rookie analyst · mid-level worker · upper-class ruler · earnest · grieving · mourning · egotistical · ambitious · skeptical · devoted · sympathetic arc · morally complex · complex characters · distinct voices · flawed humans

Relationships labels: forced alliance · working together · class conflict · power imbalance · community · solidarity · betrayal · dependency · intergenerational trauma · immigration · loss of spouse · rivalry · mistrust

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Distance: 0.2584

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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.

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Characterization labels: intellectual elite · scientist protagonists · political strategists · male-dominated cast · limited character development · flat characters · cold intellectuals · power-seekers · rule-breakers · prophetic figure · cunning leaders · non-action heroes

Relationships labels: mentor legacy · leader followers · power struggle · political rivalry · institutional loyalty · succession · state control · generational continuity

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Distance: 0.2598

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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.

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Characterization labels: misfit group · tribal leader · young protagonists · AI overseer · outcasts · adaptive humans · capable women · stereotyped characters · thin characterization

Relationships labels: tribal conflict · parent colony · mutiny legacy · power imbalance · slave revolt · romantic coercion · marriage pressure · community survival · rival tribes · mentor-oversight AI

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Distance: 0.2608

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Salomé

Elaine Vilar Madruga · 2018

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

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Characterization labels: enigmatic protagonist · mute protagonist · androgynous figure · objectified woman · monstrous feminine · captive being · desire-embodying entity · male powerholders · corrupt rulers

Relationships labels: power imbalance · objectification · slavery · captivity · ownership · desire dynamic · patriarchal control · same-sex relationship · forbidden love · familial succession · rivalry · betrayal

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Distance: 0.2610

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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.

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Characterization labels: mercenaries · clergy · cardinals · general · strategist · handpicked elite · opaque characters · underdeveloped characters · archetypal characters · power-seeking characters

Relationships labels: command hierarchy · church vs soldiers · internal betrayal · factional conflict · ideological conflict · power struggle · institutional loyalty

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Distance: 0.2611

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