Exploring from

Three Moments of an Explosion

China Miéville

Book page

Find similar books by

Combine common axes

← Back to graph Explore

Similar in themes

These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for Three Moments of an Explosion.

Themes labels used: uncertainty, mystery, entropy, estrangement, ecology, capitalism, politics, leftist politics, class conflict, authority, war on terror, anti-semitism, mortality, love, sexuality, human meaning, modernity, technology, civilization collapse, fate, storytelling, art

Focused on “state control” where exact label matches exist.

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.

Exclude same author

Max ratings No limit

Los tiempos del odio

Rosa Montero · 2018 · Bruna Husky

A replicant detective races to find a missing loved one while a dystopian society edges toward collapse.

Why this is here

Themes labels: death · mortality · love · hope · hate · power · corruption · social inequality · technology · humanity · identity · freedom · democracy · fanaticism · religious extremism · political violence · climate crisis · environmental collapse · capitalism · memory · compassion · solidarity · transhumanism · dehumanization

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1256

Continue from here

Metro 2033

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2013 · Metro

A young man crosses a deadly underground Moscow metro to warn the city-states of a looming threat from the darkness above.

Why this is here

Themes labels: survival · human nature · ideology · religion · politics · war · fate · duty · hope · despair · community · humanity · anthropocentrism · moral decline · civilization collapse · power · belief systems · truth · fear · resilience

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1271

Continue from here

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Reza Negarestani · 2008

A found-manuscript theory-horror where oil, war, and occult geopolitics converge in a paranoid vision of the Middle East.

Why this is here

Themes labels: oil politics · war · decay · paranoia · hidden knowledge · metafiction · boundary crossing · capitalism · monotheism · geopolitics · insurgency · heresy · openness · outside · inside · apocalypse · desertification · human nonhuman agency · knowledge and madness

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1321

Continue from here

Us Dark Few

Alexis Patton · 2023 · Us Dark Few

A wrongfully sentenced prisoner in an underground dystopia must survive a brutal prison and a dangerous guard.

Why this is here

Themes labels: survival · freedom · censorship · corruption · fascism · resistance · hope · despair · trust · trauma · grief · identity · class divide · control · knowledge · political commentary · climate crisis · anti-nuclear war · injustice

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1373

Continue from here

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

John Scalzi · 2025

When the Moon becomes cheese, a rotating cast of people across America faces humor, panic, and fallout over one lunar cycle.

Why this is here

Themes labels: human reaction · mortality · meaning making · uncertainty · shared reality · conspiracy theories · information and misinformation · science and belief · religious doubt · capitalism · greed · media culture · social response · acceptance · denial · human connection · resilience · existential crisis · apocalypse · randomness of events

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1397

Continue from here

Odds Against Tomorrow

Nathaniel Rich · 2013

A mathematically gifted risk forecaster profits from disaster predictions until a real catastrophe forces him to live them.

Why this is here

Themes labels: fear · anxiety · risk · catastrophe · climate change · capitalism · corporate irresponsibility · litigation · social collapse · survival · uncertainty · observation vs action · hope vs nihilism · human nature · disaster capitalism

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1402

Continue from here

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert · 2019 · Dune

The Bene Gesserit fight for survival as a brutal new enemy closes in and they reshape Chapterhouse into a new desert world.

Why this is here

Themes labels: power · survival · politics · bureaucracy · religion · philosophy · ecology · evolution · free will · humanity · history · control · strategy · corruption · gender dynamics · sexual politics · messianism · legacy · consciousness

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1405

Continue from here

El peso del corazón

Rosa Montero · 2015 · Bruna Husky

A short-lived replicant detective is pulled into a dangerous future conspiracy that tests her heart, loyalty, and survival.

Why this is here

Themes labels: mortality · time · identity · memory · humanity · love · survival · corruption · social inequality · authoritarianism · religion · ecology · climate change · nuclear danger · technology · consciousness · freedom · individuality · ethics · family

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1411

Continue from here

Lanark

Alasdair Gray · 1981

A split-narrative Scottish novel follows an artist’s life and his uncanny alter self through Glasgow and a hellish parallel city.

Why this is here

Themes labels: love · alienation · madness · identity · art and творчество · class critique · capitalism · power · bureaucracy · social control · good and evil · religion · mortality · afterlife · political systems · failure · self-knowledge · meaning · humanity

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1419

Continue from here

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert · 2019 · Dune

A 3,500-year-old worm-emperor rules a transformed Arrakis while a rebellion and a hidden human future collide.

Why this is here

Themes labels: tyranny · power · freedom · human survival · stagnation · evolution · religion and politics · leadership · agency versus fate · ecology · bureaucracy · history · violence and peace · gender politics · sexuality · humanity · sacrifice · control

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1421

Continue from here

Plastic

Scott Guild · 2024

In a plastic dystopia of VR, surveillance, and eco-terrorism, one grieving woman starts to question her world and her past.

Why this is here

Themes labels: climate change · political violence · spirituality · trauma · grief · loss · alienation · technology · consumerism · surveillance · extremism · radical politics · love · death · belonging · meaning of life · coping mechanisms · modern life · social commentary · post-apocalypse

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1425

Continue from here

The Rose Field

Philip Pullman · 2025 · The Book of Dust

Lyra and Malcolm race through a cross-world mystery toward a desert redoubt, chasing Dust, Pan, and answers.

Why this is here

Themes labels: imagination · consciousness · capitalism · authority · freedom · loss · trauma · belief · adult disillusionment · knowledge · meaning · soul · politics · religious fundamentalism · colonialism · connection

Semantic match: ranked by themes

Distance: 0.1426

Continue from here