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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for Now Wait for Last Year.
Tone labels used: paranoid, melancholy, bleak, darkly humorous, absurd, lugubrious, humanistic, depressing, unsettling
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
Philip K. Dick’s final collected stories volume gathers late-era SF tales of reality, faith, paranoia, and damaged futures.
Why this is here
Tone labels: paranoid · bleak · cynical · darkly humorous · weird · melancholy · biting · philosophical · disturbing · surreal · uneven
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0618
A small-time businessman’s plan to sell lifelike historical androids spirals into obsession, paranoia, and love gone wrong.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly funny · witty · satirical · bleak · melancholy · uneasy · disturbing · psychological · surreal · absurd · paranoid · humanistic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0698
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: 0.0735
A depressed tech worker in Silicon Valley is shadowed by a black hole while work, love, and life keep unraveling.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · unsettling · darkly funny · melancholic · anxiety-inducing · satirical · eerie · dreary · nihilistic · sad
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0759
After a doomed Venus mission, the lone survivor gives wildly conflicting accounts of what really happened.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · paranoid · darkly funny · satirical · bizarre · grotesque · claustrophobic · frustrating · maddening · grotesquely comic · cynical · disorienting · absurd
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0797
A troubled waitress in a near-future city of bombs and activism is pulled toward choices between escape, resistance, and collapse.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · funny · darkly funny · anxious · bleak · satirical · urgent · cynical · bittersweet · unsettling · paranoid
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0806
A young believer is dropped into a baffling experimental city and rises through its chaos as its hidden logic unravels.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · surreal · nightmarish · depressing · mysterious · philosophical · satirical · cynical · unsettling · dreadful · absurd
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0825
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: 0.0827
A found-manuscript theory-horror where oil, war, and occult geopolitics converge in a paranoid vision of the Middle East.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · horrific · paranoid · disturbing · bleak · sinister · absurd · oppressive
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0852
Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · depressing · surreal · weird · enigmatic · cold · unsettling · ironic · humorous · absurd · philosophical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0853
A novelist in near-future Los Angeles uncovers a corporate water conspiracy while his film adaptation and family life unravel.
Why this is here
Tone labels: darkly satirical · anxious · unsettling · dread-filled · bleak · absurd · funny · sharp · haunting · surreal · eerie · cynical
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0864
A burned-out agent, a time-shifting woman, and a desert cult are pulled into a cosmic threat from beyond Pluto.
Why this is here
Tone labels: creepy · bleak · ominous · disturbing · paranoid · unsettling · dreamlike · moody · blackly funny · existential · horrific
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0867
