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Premise labels used: besieged city, god-rules, demigod politics, mortal champion, dragon imprisonment, military defense, misfit soldier, clash of powers, city siege, intrigue and betrayal

Setting labels used: single city, besieged city, walled city, rule by gods, demigod hierarchy, military city, post-civil-war world, limited habitable space, multiple worlds (hinted)

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The Sword Saint

C.F. Iggulden · 2019 · Empire of Salt

A besieged city must rally old allies and unlikely heroes when diplomacy turns into invasion and war.

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Premise labels: city defense · siege · protect the city · foreign invasion · political conflict · trade deal as cover · ragtag team · last stand · clash of armies · internal betrayal

Setting labels: city-state · fortified city · besieged city · one-city focus · low-magic world · world of relics and artifacts · multiple nations

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Distance: 0.1635

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Citadel

C.M. Alongi · 2023

A nonverbal autistic outcast in a walled theocracy discovers the “demons” beyond the forest may be people.

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Premise labels: walled city · false enemy · sentient monsters · oppressive theocracy · outcast protagonist · truth quest · peace broker · forbidden knowledge

Setting labels: walled city · flooded forest · alien planet · low-tech future · theocratic society · dystopian future · isolated civilization

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Distance: 0.1787

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Elantris

Brandon Sanderson · 2006 · Elantris

A cursed fallen city, a political marriage, and a religious takeover collide as three lives fight to save a kingdom.

Why this is here

Premise labels: fallen city · cursed city · magic collapse · political intrigue · religious conflict · state marriage · forced exile · rebuild society · conversion campaign · crisis of faith · mystery curse · oppressed city

Setting labels: city-state · capital city · medieval-like · dying city · ruined city · post-fall setting · political capital · religious empire · fictional world · mystical city · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1851

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Pretenders to the Throne of God

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026 · The Tyrant Philosophers

A besieged crab-city becomes the latest battleground in a long war between magic, faith, and an empire of “Perfection.”

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Premise labels: city under siege · imperial conquest · resistance alliance · colonial occupation · ideological empire · demon bargain · lost power · multiple factions

Setting labels: city under siege · dead god-city · winter setting · secondary world · fantasy world · city-state · urban warfare · occupied city · brothel setting · field hospital setting

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Distance: 0.1942

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進撃の巨人 17 [Shingeki no Kyojin 17]

Hajime Isayama, 諫山創 · 2015 · 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin]

A turning-point volume of titans, politics, and revelations as new power shifts reshape the fight for survival.

Why this is here

Premise labels: giants · titans · siege warfare · political upheaval · wall defense · inheritance of power · secret origins

Setting labels: fictional walled world · inside the Walls · outside the Walls · siege setting · dystopian world · post-apocalyptic world

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Distance: 0.2009

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進撃の巨人 24 [Shingeki no Kyojin 24]

Hajime Isayama, 諫山創 · 2017 · 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin]

A flashback-heavy volume shifts to the enemy side, deepening war, trauma, and politics before a major cliffhanger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: giant-ruled world · humanity under siege · infiltration mission · warrior candidates · enemy perspective · political conflict · titan power struggle

Setting labels: walled city · outside world · Marley · Paradis · wartime society · militarized world · fictional world

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Distance: 0.2030

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Necropolis

Dan Abnett · 2005 · Gaunt's Ghosts

A massive hive city faces a Chaos-backed assault, forcing Gaunt and his unit into a brutal siege and political struggle.

Why this is here

Premise labels: siege · city defense · civil war · hive city · overwhelming invasion · last stand · factional conflict · imperial reinforcement · urban warfare · wartime politics

Setting labels: hive city · hive world · industrial world · alien world · planetary siege · far future · fortress city · Sabbat Worlds · imperial warzone · urban battlefield

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Distance: 0.2034

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Steamborn

Eric R. Asher · 2015 · Steamborn

A teen tinker’s apprentice survives a monster assault on his walled city and uncovers a dark secret beneath it.

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Premise labels: walled city · monster siege · class divide · tinker apprentice · hidden conspiracy · survival quest · coming of age · fleeing home · post-war society · investigation

Setting labels: walled city · mountain city · post-apocalyptic world · post-war world · deadlands · highlands · lowlands · fractured society · industrial fantasy · steam-powered society · city-state world · monster-filled wasteland

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Distance: 0.2074

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Shiang

C.F. Iggulden · 2018 · Empire of Salt

Two distant cities collide as warriors, traitors, and ancient magic set off a brutal war for power.

Why this is here

Premise labels: city-state conflict · cross-city journey · traitor retrieval · power struggle · ancient magic · resurrection · possession · artifact magic · war outbreak

Setting labels: two-city setting · distant city-states · east-west divide · snow-swept landscape · feudal society · militarized society · warrior culture · ancient empire · fantasy world

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Distance: 0.2083

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The Lost and the Damned

Guy Haley · 2019 · The Siege of Terra

As Terra comes under siege, conscripts, primarchs, and traitors each fight to decide humanity’s fate.

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Premise labels: siege warfare · planetary invasion · defensive stand · war of attrition · last stand · apocalyptic conflict · human-vs-superhuman war · conscript defense

Setting labels: Terra · Imperial Palace · fortified city · trench warfare · orbital bombardment · planetary warzone · far future · science fantasy · warp

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Distance: 0.2084

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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 01

Atsuko Asano · 2013 · No. 6: The Manga

An elite boy in a sealed futuristic city shelters a fugitive, triggering a conspiracy and a bond that could change everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: walled city · hidden corruption · fugitive sheltering · surveillance state · elite student · forbidden alliance · mystery conspiracy

Setting labels: futuristic city · walled city · dystopian society · authoritarian city · near future · controlled city · post-collapse world

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Distance: 0.2090

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Defiance

C.J. Redwine · 2012 · Defiance

A rebellious teen crosses a walled wasteland to find her missing father, guarded by the boy she once loved.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing father · protective escort · forbidden love · escape mission · walled city · monster threat · tyrannical ruler · truth-seeking

Setting labels: walled city · wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian society · fantasy world · medieval-like setting · futuristic setting · hybrid technology · closed society · forest · city-state

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2093

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