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These books are ranked using the tone labels extracted for The Last Ship.
Tone labels used: bleak, grim, dark, tense, horror-tinged, lyrical, serious, ponderous, melancholy, disturbing, hopeful-tinged, admirational
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their tone embeddings are close.
An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · intense · somber · hopeful · thought-provoking · philosophical · wry · humorous · disturbing · introspective · unpleasant · compassionate · optimistic
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0634
In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · somber · gritty · dark · hopeful · melancholy · tense · thought-provoking · emotionally heavy
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0641
In a flooded future New York, a water-sensitive teen flees a museum sanctuary and journeys north to survive.
Why this is here
Tone labels: lyrical · melancholy · bleak · dreary · hopeful · reflective · tense · somber · poetic · contemplative · dread-filled · bittersweet
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0646
After nuclear war, one family survives in fragments across generations as the world mutates and rebuilds.
Why this is here
Tone labels: grim · bleak · harrowing · dark · hopeful · bittersweet · cynical · thought-provoking · disturbing · chilling · moralizing · emotional
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0657
A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · hopeful · melancholy · creepy · chilling · eerie · angsty · visceral · heartfelt · poetic · dread-filled · gorgeous
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0660
A telepresence journalist investigating a covered-up massacre uncovers buried memories, political secrets, and forbidden love.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · lyrical · intense · melancholy · hopeful · claustrophobic · brutal · spooky · disarming · earnest · prescient · strange · beautiful · terrible · unsettling
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0662
A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · hopeful · melancholy · dark · sad · eerie · terrifiying · intense · grim · mixed
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0664
A mute wanderer, a baby, a goat, and a magic sword cross a demon-warped wasteland toward humanity’s last refuge.
Why this is here
Tone labels: dark · bleak · grim · moody · haunting · hopeful · humorous · touching · atmospheric · lyrical · weird · macabre · sad · joyful (mixed)
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0664
A prequel novella tracing three survivors’ first steps through a collapsing world as the dead begin to rise.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · sad · hopeful · haunting · poetic · lyrical · reflective · gruesome · melancholy · somber · eerie · heartbreaking
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0667
A teen and her adoptive mother flee a deadly outbreak and cross a water-scarce wasteland toward rumored safety.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · gloomy · grim · gritty · brutal · atmospheric · desolate · hopeful · bittersweet · tense · emotional · raw
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0690
A half-fairy Sleeping Beauty escapes her curse and travels through time, fairy tales, and ruined futures.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · dark · melancholic · hopeful · thought-provoking · gritty · didactic · unsettling · tragic · lyrical · grotesque
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0699
A pregnant Ojibwe adoptee journals to her unborn child while a chaotic future turns women’s bodies into targets.
Why this is here
Tone labels: bleak · haunting · chilling · tense · foreboding · melancholy · intimate · oppressive · lyrical · mysterious · grim
Semantic match: ranked by tone
Distance: 0.0707
