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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: mad science, creation gone wrong, scientific ambition, creator and creation, abandoned creation, moral responsibility, playing god, monstrous outsider, unchecked progress
Setting labels used: 18th century, Europe, Arctic, North Pole, natural landscapes, laboratory, gothic setting, travel narrative
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
Mary Shelley’s classic is reimagined as a lush graphic adaptation, blending abridged text with eerie, detailed illustrations.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad scientist · created monster · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral dilemma · playing God
Setting labels: Gothic · scientific experiment · historical atmosphere · icy wasteland
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1154
A scientist creates life from dead matter, then faces the human and moral consequences of abandoning his creation.
Why this is here
Premise labels: creator and creation · playing God · scientific ambition · artificial life · creation gone wrong · othered outsider · revenge pursuit · abandonment · loneliness · responsibility
Setting labels: Arctic · Swiss Alps · Geneva · Scotland · Europe · early 19th century · Romantic era · Gothic landscape · isolated frontier · natural world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1345
A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · ambition · forbidden knowledge · unnatural life · ethical experiment · created being · abandoned creation · responsibility
Setting labels: Swiss scenery · England · London · Oxford · 19th century · romantic era · gothic atmosphere · fictionalized reality · laboratory · mountains
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1369
A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.
Why this is here
Premise labels: creation gone wrong · mad scientist · man-made monster · abandonment · revenge · rejection · loneliness · responsibility · dangerous knowledge · ethical science
Setting labels: 19th century · laboratory · isolated landscapes · gothic setting · scientific setting · epistolary frame
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1583
A graphic retelling of Frankenstein follows a scientist, his creation, and the tragic fallout of bringing life to the dead.
Why this is here
Premise labels: scientific creation · man-made life · creator and creation · monstrous consequence · frozen isolation
Setting labels: North Pole · frozen sea · Europe · Geneva · university setting · scientific setting · Gothic setting · 19th century · historical setting · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1759
In 1850s England, a sharp-tongued woman scientist uncovers a family secret and pursues a dangerous, life-making experiment.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · Frankenstein sequel · scientific ambition · female scientist · queer twist · feminist retelling · paleontology · play god · creation of life · dinosaur creation · academic recognition · career struggle · family secrets · forbidden knowledge · scientific rivalry
Setting labels: 1850s · Victorian era · Victorian England · London · Scotland · Inverness · Isle of Wight · Crystal Palace · Arctic · mid-Victorian · historical · scientific revolution · paleontology boom · Gothic setting · rural England
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Distance: 0.2367
In Victorian London, a public-facing scientist builds a haven for “rogue” minds while a dangerous secret and new arrivals threaten it.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad science · rogue scientists · secret identity · buried secrets · public image · misunderstood monsters · found family · scientific haven · social acceptance · identity conflict
Setting labels: Victorian London · 19th-century London · alternate history · gothic world · steampunk London · scientific society · laboratory setting · historical fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2503
A famed clockmaker’s pride turns into a crisis of faith when the watches he made begin to fail mysteriously.
Why this is here
Premise labels: inventor downfall · pride and fall · clockmaker protagonist · disappearing function · soul bound to creation · mortality crisis · immortality quest · science versus faith · man versus God · technological hubris · Faustian bargain · moral allegory
Setting labels: Geneva · Switzerland · Rhone island · gothic atmosphere · workshop setting
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Distance: 0.2541
A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror
Setting labels: Providence · attic laboratory · house setting · early 20th century · urban gothic · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2550
A gentle gothic retelling of Frankenstein follows a created boy who leaves his castle home to save his friend and learn what makes a person.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · created beings · finding place · monster identity · outcast protagonist · escape journey · scientific experimentation · world rejection · search for friend
Setting labels: castle · isolated castle · village · outside world · gothic setting · stormy atmosphere · unnamed secondary-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2583
A kidnapped English woman reaches an alternate world of animal peoples and becomes empress, exploring science, politics, and faith.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alternate world · utopian society · female outsider · animal societies · scientific inquiry · philosophical debate · religious inquiry · political inquiry · self-made empress · cross-world travel
Setting labels: North Pole · alternate dimension · parallel world · imaginary world · utopian world · animal-human society · 17th century · Restoration England · ocean voyage
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2618
A NUMA team races to stop a man-made polar catastrophe that could unleash global destruction.
Why this is here
Premise labels: global catastrophe · scientific threat · mad scientist · world saving · environmental threat · secret technology · conspiracy · cataclysm prevention · natural disaster
Setting labels: ocean · polar regions · Arctic · Siberia · North Atlantic · underwater · exotic locations · World War II backdrop · historical present-day split
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2681
