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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
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
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
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
An undercover narcotics agent spirals into addiction and self-doubt while hunting a deadly drug from inside the drug scene.
Why this is here
Tone labels: paranoid · dark · melancholy · haunting · tragic · bleak · darkly humorous · anxious · oppressive · sad
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0667
A punished teen from a surveilled future is exiled to 1950s Wisconsin, where identity, love, and reality blur.
Why this is here
Tone labels: disturbing · bleak · thought-provoking · unsettling · gloomy · oppressive · melancholy · paranoid · heavy-handed
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0673
A survivor’s journal from a shattered city becomes a future researcher’s key to uncovering what destroyed humanity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · creepy · unsettling · quiet · melancholy · thoughtful · disturbing · eerie · philosophical · subtle · unnerving
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0674
