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William S. Burroughs

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Similar in characterization

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.

Cover of Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen              Jones

Shadows over Innsmouth

Stephen Jones · 1994 · Shadows Over Innsmouth

A Lovecraft-inspired anthology of Innsmouth stories, mixing the original tale with later mythos variations.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1793

Cover of The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs · 1994 · The Nova Trilogy

A cut-up sci-fi nightmare of addiction, control, and bodily horror, told in fragments that resist linear sense.

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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

Cover of Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs

Exterminator!

William S. Burroughs

A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1969

Cover of Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

Marooned in Realtime

Vernor Vinge · 1986 · Across Realtime

A stranded detective must solve a murder in a future where a few hundred humans struggle to restart humanity after extinction.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2041

Cover of The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea

The Eye in the Pyramid

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson · 1987 · Illuminatus!

A cynical New York detective stumbles into a sprawling, hallucinatory conspiracy that may link secret societies, sex, and power.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2069

Cover of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 3: Second Variety

Philip K. Dick · 1998

A mid-1950s PKD story collection of paranoia, mutations, robots, and reality-bending ideas in compact form.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2075

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Cosmic Detective

Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt · 2023

An unnamed detective investigates an impossible murder in a neon-noir future where gods walk among humans.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2082

Cover of Before the Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Before the Incal

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Zoran Janjetov · 2013 · The Incal Saga

A young private detective’s early life in a corrupt dystopian megacity leads toward the events of The Incal.

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.2092