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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Tone labels used: bleak, melancholy, oppressive, philosophical, thought-provoking, paranoid, dark, strange, haunting, mysterious, desolate
Focused on “pessimistic” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
In a flooded near-future Melbourne, a family’s fall into underclass life exposes a harsh world of climate collapse and class war.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · grim · oppressive · pessimistic · doom-laden · horrific · dark · somber · haunting · thought-provoking · desolate
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0576
In an alternate 1980s, retired superheroes investigate a murder as Cold War tensions and hidden conspiracies mount.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · pessimistic · intense · serious · philosophical · thought-provoking · unflinching · gloomy · tragic · cynical · somber
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0739
After an extinction event, uploaded minds in machine bodies struggle to rebuild society and define what remains human.
Why this is here
Tone labels: melancholic · bleak · grim · philosophical · intellectual · haunting · alienating · serious · contemplative · pessimistic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0764
An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · depressing · eerie · unsettling · grotesque · misanthropic · pessimistic · nightmarish · weird · fascinating · grim
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0772
A grieving xenobiologist joins a perilous trek across an alien planet to investigate a perfect hole and the signal it emits.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · philosophical · haunting · eerie · tense · atmospheric · desolate · claustrophobic · introspective · existential · depressing
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0547
In a fully monitored state, one man’s private resistance collides with surveillance, propaganda, and forbidden love.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · terrifying · oppressive · dark · thought-provoking · haunted · grim · heavy · desolate · premonitory
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0559
A one-way time machine exiles political prisoners to the Cambrian past, where a suspicious newcomer upends their colony.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · melancholy · claustrophobic · oppressive · philosophical · political · somber · anxious · desolate · restrained · cynical · thoughtful
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0570
An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · grim · somber · dark · ominous · desolate · fatalistic · eerie · woebegone · contemplative
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0616
When almost everyone stops sleeping, one rare sleeper watches society unravel into madness and cultlike violence.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · creepy · disturbing · haunting · grim · heavy · poignant · melancholy · anxious · philosophical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0621
A silent wanderer crosses a colossal cyberpunk megastructure, fighting machines and uncovering a hidden human future.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · gritty · oppressive · haunting · alienating · eerie · mysterious · desolate · violent · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0625
A solitary gunslinger hunts a mysterious foe across a dying world, chasing clues to a hidden Tower.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · moody · atmospheric · mysterious · surreal · philosophical · somber · dreamlike · gritty · uneasy · eerie
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0646
In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · sad · emotional · creepy · uneasy · thought-provoking · disturbing · quiet · prescient · timely · melancholy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0652
