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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for Cities of the Red Night.
Characterization labels used: private detective, pirate crew, revolutionaries, young men, mutants, junkies, antiheroes, mysterious characters, missing-boy case, libertarian idealists, violent characters
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their characterization embeddings are close.
A Lovecraft-inspired anthology of Innsmouth stories, mixing the original tale with later mythos variations.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: curious protagonist · investigator · private detective · genetic outsider · fish people · monsterized humanity · mobster · wolfman · political refugee · young intellectual
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1793
A cut-up sci-fi nightmare of addiction, control, and bodily horror, told in fragments that resist linear sense.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: junkies · rent boys · agents · police · corrupt figures · outsiders · marginalized figures · antiheroes · predators · victims · unstable characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1887
A lonely detective’s routine cat-return case turns into a mournful mystery of lost love, missing people, and strange reality shifts.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: private detective · divorced protagonist · lonely protagonist · restrained characters · affectless characters · anthropomorphic characters · deadpan protagonist · obsessive investigator
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1969
A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: outsiders · junkies · cops · priests · bureaucrats · secret agents · pederast figures · revolutionary figures · misanthropic voices · alter ego · unsavory characters · antiheroes
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.1969
On a hostile colony world, a rigid organ-bank caste system is upended by new technology and a man with hidden psi powers.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young male protagonist · miner · rebel · ruling elite · authoritarian police · telepathic/psi-powered protagonist · underclass colonists · privileged crew
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2009
A stranded detective must solve a murder in a future where a few hundred humans struggle to restart humanity after extinction.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: detective protagonist · ex-cop · competent protagonist · skeptical protagonist · persistent investigator · high-tech faction · low-tech faction · faction leaders · lonely survivor · murderer · power seeker · ordinary-citizen lead
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2041
Six cloned crew members wake on a crippled ship beside their murdered former bodies and must solve the crime before it repeats.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: clone crew · criminal pasts · secretive characters · unreliable suspects · diverse cast · murky pasts · distinct personalities · flat characters · morally compromised · antiheroic
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2068
A cynical New York detective stumbles into a sprawling, hallucinatory conspiracy that may link secret societies, sex, and power.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: cynical detective · reporter · secret society members · counterculture figures · mismatched protagonists · thin characterization · antiheroes · paranoid minds
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2069
A mid-1950s PKD story collection of paranoia, mutations, robots, and reality-bending ideas in compact form.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: paranoid characters · ordinary people · mutants · robots · alien beings · children · bureaucrats · salesmen · scientists · colonists · psychics · overlords · trickster figures
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2075
An unnamed detective investigates an impossible murder in a neon-noir future where gods walk among humans.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: unnamed detective · hard-boiled detective · lonely detective · family man · badass detective · conflicted protagonist · secretive bosses · mysterious librarian · alien beings · godlike beings
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2082
A young bureaucrat enters a ministry that collects and interprets citizens’ dreams to detect threats to the empire.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young man · bureaucrat · docile protagonist · fearful protagonist · isolated protagonist · passive protagonist · uncomprehending outsider · powerful family scion
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2087
A young private detective’s early life in a corrupt dystopian megacity leads toward the events of The Incal.
Why this is here
Characterization labels: young protagonist · reluctant hero · antihero · private detective · cynical protagonist · proactive protagonist · broken hero · strong-willed character · morally complex characters · strong female characters
Semantic match: ranked by characterization
Distance: 0.2092
