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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for Radio Free Albemuth. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: paranoid, darkly comic, visionary, oppressive, uneasy, apocalyptic, earnest, claustrophobic, prophetic, wry

Premise labels used: paranoid future, state surveillance, alien contact, divine revelation, political resistance, author avatar, alternate America, conspiracy state

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Philip K. Dick · 2004

A corporate precog in a heated solar-system dystopia is drawn into a drug war where reality itself becomes unstable.

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Tone labels: paranoid · uncanny · hallucinatory · dark · satirical · absurd · bizarre · disturbing · philosophical · dystopian · wry · claustrophobic

Premise labels: drug dystopia · hallucinatory reality · colonial escape · corporate rivalry · power struggle · reality manipulation · messianic antagonist

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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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Tone labels: darkly comic · satirical · disturbing · uncomfortable · chilling · scary · humorous · repulsive · bizarre · prophetic · claustrophobic · depressing

Premise labels: surveillance state · privacy loss · theocracy · anti-science · social media culture · forced sharing · religious intolerance · post-apocalyptic society · vaccine prohibition · crowd conformity

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Attack Surface

Cory Doctorow · 2020 · Little Brother

A gifted hacker for surveillance firms must choose between lucrative complicity and helping the dissidents her tech targets.

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Tone labels: dark · grim · terrifying · timely · urgent · prophetic · didactic · hopeful · anxious · serious · political · cynical · witty · edgy

Premise labels: surveillance state · cybersecurity · hacktivism · double agent · redemption arc · moral compromise · ethical hacking · state repression · political activism · near-future control

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Agents of Dreamland

Caitlín R. Kiernan · 2017 · Tinfoil Dossier

A burned-out agent, a time-shifting woman, and a desert cult are pulled into a cosmic threat from beyond Pluto.

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Tone labels: creepy · bleak · ominous · disturbing · paranoid · unsettling · dreamlike · moody · blackly funny · existential · horrific

Premise labels: government agent · secret investigation · doomsday cult · alien fungus · time travel · cosmic threat · apocalypse

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Burning Paradise

Robert Charles Wilson · 2013

In an alternate 2014 Earth of imposed peace, a teen and her family race to outrun alien assassins and a hidden truth.

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Tone labels: paranoid · tense · somber · dark · horrific · uncanny · disquieting · melancholy · urgent · philosophical · thought-provoking · haunting

Premise labels: alternate history · alien interference · secret society · global conspiracy · body snatchers · paranoid thriller · world peace · humanity manipulated · hidden truth · alien invasion

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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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Tone labels: suffocating · claustrophobic · nightmarish · surreal · dark · tense · oppressive · eerie · melancholic · paranoid · ominous · cold

Premise labels: totalitarian control · dream interpretation · state surveillance · bureaucratic control · prophetic dreams

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Motorman

David Ohle · 2023 · Moldenke

A persecuted man navigates a bizarre, surveilled future of fake weather, artificial skies, and body-altered identities.

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Tone labels: darkly humorous · bleak · paranoid · nightmarish · absurd · whimsical · spooky · deadpan · grotesque · haunting · comic

Premise labels: surveillance · escape · identity crisis · body alteration · bizarre future · persecuted protagonist · artificial reality

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The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

James Tynion IV · 2021 · The Department of Truth

A conspiracy-obsessed man is recruited into a secret agency battling belief-fueled lies that can remake reality.

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Tone labels: dark · creepy · unsettling · paranoid · surreal · disturbing · gloomy · timely · brainy · political · philosophical · chaotic

Premise labels: conspiracy theories · truth vs falsehood · belief shapes reality · secret government agency · shadow war · paranoid thriller · reality manipulation · post-truth

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Eight O'Clock in the Morning

Ray Faraday Nelson · 1963

A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.

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Tone labels: paranoid · eerie · horror-tinged · urgent · sarcastic · cynical · cold · confrontational · punchy

Premise labels: awakening · hidden truth · alien infiltration · mind control · subliminal control · conspiracy · secret society · resistance

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We

Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1959

A loyal engineer in a glass-walled future state records his orderly life until love and doubt unsettle his total system.

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Tone labels: chilling · prophetic · satirical · ironic · oppressive · dreamlike · hypnotic · cold · anxious · darkly humorous

Premise labels: totalitarian society · collective identity · state control · awakening individuality · forbidden love · technocratic future · space mission

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Philip K. Dick · 1974

A celebrity in a police-state future wakes up erased from existence and must survive while chasing the truth behind his disappearance.

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Tone labels: paranoid · bleak · anxious · dystopian · hallucinatory · absurdist · nightmarish · melancholic · darkly comic · oppressive · disturbing

Premise labels: identity loss · missing person · celebrity downfall · unperson · police state · forged documents · reality shift · paranoid pursuit · near-future dystopia · existential mystery

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Zazen

Vanessa Veselka · 2011

A troubled waitress in a near-future city of bombs and activism is pulled toward choices between escape, resistance, and collapse.

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Tone labels: dark · funny · darkly funny · anxious · bleak · satirical · urgent · cynical · bittersweet · unsettling · paranoid

Premise labels: near-future collapse · bomb threats · domestic terrorism · activist subculture · late capitalism · social unrest · escape vs stay · radical politics · dystopian America

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Distance: 0.1761

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