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| Residents of Airstrip One are under constant surveillance by an unseen leader known as Big Brother | George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 96%
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| A young Swiss student constructs a human-like creature from parts of corpses, then brings it to life | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | 86%
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| In the 19th century, Martians invade Earth in huge metal tripods | H.G. Wells | The War of the Worlds | 84%
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| An amusement park featuring genetically recreated dinosaurs goes horribly wrong before it even opens | Michael Crichton | Jurassic Park | 83%
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| Factions of an interstellar empire fight over control of the planet Arrakis, the only source of the valuable spice melange | Frank Herbert | Dune | 76%
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| A marine biologist is captured by an advanced submarine named the Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo | Jules Verne | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | 73%
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| After Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the last surviving man goes on intergalactic adventures in his dressing gown | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | 72%
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| Two astronauts en route to Saturn are terrorised by their spaceship's disobedient computer | Arthur C. Clarke | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 71%
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| In the future, humans are mass-produced in laboratories and assigned a social class before they are even born | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 71%
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| A Victorian explorer travels to the far future and finds that humans have evolved into two different species, named the Eloi and the Morlocks | H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | 69%
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| In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, a bounty hunter is tasked with killing six escaped human-like androids | Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 67%
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| A scientist named Griffin modifies his own body so he neither reflects nor absorbs light | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | 64%
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| A soldier progresses through the ranks of the army during a war between humans and aliens known as 'Bugs' | Robert A. Heinlein | Starship Troopers | 43%
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| A scientist on a remote Pacific island creates monstrous animal hybrids called 'Beast Folk' | H.G. Wells | The Island of Doctor Moreau | 37%
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| A young janitor with a low IQ is transformed into a genius, thanks to an experimental brain surgery | Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon | 29%
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| After most of the population is blinded by a meteor shower, an aggressive species of carnivorous plant begins to take over the world | John Wyndham | The Day of the Triffids | 28%
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| Society breaks down when a highly virulent, genetically modified strain of influenza is accidentally released | Stephen King | The Stand | 28%
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| In order to avoid overconsumption of resources, people are killed once they reach their 'Lastday' at the age of 21 | William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson | Logan's Run | 25%
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| A hacker is hired by a mysterious employer named Armitage to steal a security code from the most impregnable databank in the solar system | William Gibson | Neuromancer | 25%
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| A human man is sent to study the inhabitants of the planet Gethen, and finds they have an incredibly different understanding of gender and sexuality | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness | 16%
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