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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Axiomatic.
Tone labels used: philosophical, disturbing, intellectual, cool, clinical, haunting, unsettling, melancholic, dark, prescient
Focused on “optimistic” 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.
A chronological, career-spanning collection of J.G. Ballard’s complete short fiction, tracing his shifting obsessions and style.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · weird · haunting · surreal · clinical · cool · lyrical · misanthropic · uneasy · hypnotic · gorgeous · dark · experimental · prescient
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0657
After a mass vanishing, Superman wrestles with guilt, faith, and a mystery that may trace back to his own choices.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · serious · brooding · introspective · philosophical · melancholic · grim · heavy · pretentious · mysterious
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0725
An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · disturbing · optimistic · haunting · eerie · grotesque · philosophical · cold · matter-of-fact · bittersweet · unsettling · weird · melancholic · fun
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.1044
A son visits a secret cryonics compound with his wealthy father, forcing a reckoning with death, identity, and family.
Why this is here
Tone labels: cold · clinical · eerie · oppressive · grim · haunting · meditative · unsettling · funereal · philosophical · surreal · claustrophobic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0799
In an AI-run walled city built on sacrifice, an aging bioprosthetist gives her house AI a body as murder and revolt spread.
Why this is here
Tone labels: thoughtful · philosophical · quiet · melancholic · tense · uneasy · cold · clinical · somber
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0829
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: 0.0839
A psychiatrist and a new mother untangle a strange case of missing time, uncanny memories, and reality-bending doubts.
Why this is here
Tone labels: clinical · dry · restrained · eerie · haunting · mysterious · uneasy · mind-bending · thought-provoking · melancholy · uncanny · suspenseful · intellectual · cool · quiet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0863
In a collapsing future London, a sheltered teen boards her father’s survival ship and questions its promised utopia.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · creepy · haunting · claustrophobic · uneasy · tense · melancholic · thought provoking · philosophical · disturbing · emotional · grim
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0872
A depressed teen is pushed into piloting a giant bio-mech as humanity faces alien attack and apocalyptic collapse.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · melancholic · intense · brooding · philosophical · psychological · hopeful · mysterious · cerebral · heartbreaking · depressing · emotionally heavy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0879
A secret agent probes an illegal prison-planet experiment where brutal survival has forged a dangerous new society.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · brooding · tense · philosophical · intellectual · unsettling · weird · serious · grim · thought-provoking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0881
A biographical frame follows a hyperintelligent mutant who seeks others like him and a new order beyond humanity.
Why this is here
Tone labels: philosophical · dark · unsettling · cold · dry · clinical · contemptuous · brutal · serious · thought-provoking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0924
A war-weary mercenary in 17th-century Europe is recruited by Lucifer for a Grail quest to heal the world's pain.
Why this is here
Tone labels: Dark · Moody · Philosophical · Thought-provoking · Grim · Cynical · Sardonic · Heavy · Serious · Unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0933
