Two Serpents Rise
A risk manager in a desert megacity investigates demon-tainted water and is pulled into family, faith, and desire.
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1580
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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited.
Tone labels used: disturbing, eerily cheerful, satiric, cynical, prophetic, inquietante
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
Bumped
Two separated twins collide in a future where infertile adults pay teens to have babies—and belief systems clash.
Why this is here
Tone labels: satirical · witty · bizarre · chilling · funny · uncomfortable · disturbing · cynical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1610
We
A loyal engineer in a glass-walled future state records his orderly life until love and doubt unsettle his total system.
Why this is here
Tone labels: chilling · prophetic · satirical · ironic · oppressive · dreamlike · hypnotic · cold · anxious · darkly humorous
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1646
Player Piano
In a machine-run America, an elite engineer questions a system that makes most people obsolete and meaningless.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · darkly funny · satirical · cynical · serious · somber · prescient · haunting · didactic · prophetic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1670
The Delirium Brief
When a secret occult agency is exposed, Bob Howard must battle privatization, politics, and cosmic horror.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · grim · cynical · satirical · anxiety-inducing · pessimistic · urgent · wry · oppressive
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1698
Bluebeard
An aging Armenian-American artist writes his life story while hiding a secret in his barn and being disrupted by a pushy widow.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · ironic · satirical · melancholy · tender · quirky · mysterious · sentimental · cynical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1701
Liberation Day
Nine darkly funny, unsettling stories trace power, guilt, love, and oppression across near-future and everyday worlds.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · unsettling · bleak · satirical · absurd · cynical · empathetic · tender · wry · melancholic · disturbing
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1708
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
A wealthy American family is forced to survive after the dollar collapses and the economy unravels.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · satirical · chilling · bleak · mournful · cynical · didactic · ironic · scathing · unsettling · pessimistic · alarming
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1711
Accelerando
Three generations of one family navigate an accelerating posthuman future as AI, nanotech, and the Singularity reshape humanity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: brainy · surreal · bleak · humorous · witty · chaotic · hyperkinetic · anxious · ominous · caffeinated
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1716
Please Report Your Bug Here
A burned-out dating-app employee follows a weird glitch into alternate worlds, exposing Big Tech secrets and his own identity crisis.
Why this is here
Tone labels: wry · melancholic · anxious · uncanny · satirical · deadpan · intimate · somber · contemplative
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1795
Now Wait for Last Year
A doctor caught between a collapsing marriage, a sick ruler, and a war-torn future is pulled into a time-bending drug plot.
Why this is here
Tone labels: paranoid · melancholy · bleak · darkly humorous · absurd · lugubrious · humanistic · depressing · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1809
Europe in Autumn
A chef in a fractured near-future Europe gets pulled into a shadowy courier-spy network and a widening conspiracy.
Why this is here
Tone labels: wry · tense · atmospheric · bleak · funny · dry · paranoid · unsettling · clever
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1811