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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for The Soft Machine.
Tone labels used: surreal, bizarre, grotesque, violent, corrosive, bleak, darkly comic, disorienting, aggressive, repulsive, hypnotic, dazzling, obscene, hallucinatory
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bizarre · grotesque · surreal · dark · bleak · violent · comic · satirical · bawdy · dreamlike · hellish · beautiful · uncomfortable · intense
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0731
A virus-ridden, time-slipping Burroughs novel entwines pirate utopia and a hardboiled missing-person case.
Why this is here
Tone labels: grotesque · hallucinatory · surreal · dark · violent · comic · apocalyptic · grotty · fetishistic · bleak · seductive · nightmarish · transgressive
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0780
A secret agent with a split identity is drawn into a surreal covert war to preserve reality and the status quo.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bizarre · grotesque · dark · nihilistic · transgressive · satirical · hysterical · sleazy · surreal · queasy · blackly comic · oppressive · hallucinatory
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0850
In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · horrific · hallucinatory · psychedelic · trippy · surreal · visceral · dark · grotesque · beautiful · violent · frenzied · oppressive
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0891
A fragmented junkie nightmare follows an addict through sex, drugs, paranoia, and control in a surreal anti-novel.
Why this is here
Tone labels: grotesque · darkly humorous · surreal · satirical · bizarre · violent · repulsive · cynical · nightmarish · toxic · profane · transgressive · blackly comic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0912
In a tree-stump metropolis of perfume and vermin, a debt-ridden exterminator is pulled into a citywide struggle over art and power.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · grim · grotesque · lush · decadent · hallucinatory · surreal · unsettling · violent · lyrical · darkly humorous · heartbreaking · intense · weird
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0912
A mercenary hunter with a supernatural nose joins a dangerous search for a missing child across a mythic Africa.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · brutal · violent · grotesque · sensual · hallucinatory · nightmarish · dreamlike · dense · opaque · surreal · intense · witty · perverse · grim · challenging
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0934
A memory-warping impostor turns the world against Hulk, forcing Bruce Banner to fight for his identity from inside his own mind.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · horrific · psychological · grotesque · cerebral · weird · sinister · trippy · darkly comic · paranoid
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0951
A time-displaced Thomas More is sent to rescue a failing far-future utopia that may be broken by its own perfection.
Why this is here
Tone labels: surreal · weird · funny · bizarre · hallucinatory · satirical · philosophical · allegorical · enigmatic · chaotic · dreamlike · profound · grotesque · whimsical · dissonant
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0959
On a water-starved Mars, a repairman, a union boss, and an autistic boy become entangled in a scheme to profit from the future.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · surreal · horrifying · melancholic · cynical · morose · trippy · absurdist · uneasy · disturbing · satirical · hallucinatory · sad · gloomy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0961
Cloned Russian writers, a mysterious bodily substance, and a time-bending political nightmare collide in a savage literary fever dream.
Why this is here
Tone labels: grotesque · surreal · absurd · satirical · vulgar · shocking · hilarious · nightmarish · feverish · menacing · cynical · iconoclastic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0962
A troubled couple discovers a mysterious black hole in an apartment building storage room and becomes obsessed with what it changes.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · gritty · grim · bleak · oppressive · unsettling · disturbing · nasty · dirty · grotesque · nihilistic · claustrophobic · dreamlike · hallucinatory
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0986
