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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Above World.
Setting labels used: future Earth, undersea city, post-apocalyptic world, extreme habitats, land and sea, sky colonies, desert colonies, genetically altered societies
Focused on “living ship” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A Terran exploration crew lands on Astra and collides with hidden colonies, telepathic allies, and a deadly returning power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alien planet · extrasolar planet · space colony · post-apocalyptic Earth · future history · frontier world · ruined civilization · undersea culture · telepathic society · three-species world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0963
An older human doctor stranded on post-apocalyptic Earth is claimed by a gentle snake-alien who wants her choice, not her captivity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · space colony ship · alien world · human colony · future · earth reclamation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0981
A misfit girl learns she was engineered to live underwater and must cross a dangerous ocean to reach safety.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic Earth · undersea colony · ocean world · dystopian California · flooded coast · post-climate-change · authoritarian future · underwater setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1009
In a shattered future, a fragmented consciousness flees to reunite with itself while enemies hunt the secret inside her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: undersea city · underwater metropolis · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · ravaged landscape · desert wasteland · post-climate apocalypse · nuclear aftermath · fractured polity · Southwest
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1021
An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space colonization · undersea habitation · ice age · greenhouse effect · ozone depletion · magnetic reversal · ruined planet · extreme environments
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1095
A new Earth expedition reaches the colony world Pax, unsettling a fragile human-alien balance and exposing deeper threats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: planetary colony · alien planet · future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · distant future · interstellar setting · ecological SF · single settlement
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1129
A hybrid outsider becomes the first of a new alien-human form and must master dangerous powers before they reshape everyone.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · alien-occupied Earth · resister communities · wilderness · forests · Mars · spacefaring aliens · dystopian future · biotech habitat · colonized planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1137
A teen resistance fighter infiltrates an alien city through deadly games to uncover how the invaders rule Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · occupied Earth · alien city · domed city · underground refuge · dystopian future · harsh artificial environment · post-collapse society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1152
Human colonists on an alien world confront sentient plants, survival pressures, and shifting generations.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alien planet · space colony · future Earth · post-Earth disaster · ecological collapse · war-torn Earth · lush alien ecosystem · high-gravity world · older-than-Earth biosphere · spacefaring future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1155
In a climate-ravaged future, Jenny searches for bee DNA aboard a roaming community to imagine a livable tomorrow.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · desertified world · mobile settlements · motorized village · monadic society · eco-dystopia · climate-ravaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1164
A human teen hiding among alien occupiers risks everything when military tests and first love threaten her secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · post-apocalyptic · alien-occupied world · colonized planet · futuristic society · militarized society · school setting · beach setting · ocean setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1181
On a future Earth split by fever-worshippers and tech survivors, a soldier is swept into a prophecy, war, and fated love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic Earth · dystopian Earth · post-dystopian · space station colony · off-planet colony · future history · war-torn world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1182
