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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Trouble and Her Friends.
Setting labels used: near future, United States, cyberspace, virtual reality, dystopia, digital frontier, online underworld, post-regulation internet, real world and net
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A sequel-length techno-thriller where a distributed AI and its followers battle corporations over the future of society.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · Midwest · corporate dystopia · digital world · augmented reality · darknet · virtual reality · post-collapse society · globalized world
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Distance: 0.0871
A desperate teen enters a VR game contest to save his mother, then discovers a hidden demon-summoning class.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · corporate dystopia · virtual reality · MMO game world · dungeon setting · online streaming culture · real world / virtual world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0914
A coerced teen coder unleashes a virus that evolves into an AI civilization, collapsing the world’s systems.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · United States · digital infrastructure · networked society · computer-dependent world · post-collapse · military context · online systems · physical and virtual worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0928
A satirical dystopia follows a violent American revolution that splits society into separate nations by identity.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · alternate society · dystopian future · internet age
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Distance: 0.0999
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
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Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1043
In a virtual dystopia, a teen risks everything to cross back into the real world and reunite with her family.
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Setting labels: near-future · virtual world · real world · dystopian future · technology-dependent society · domestic surveillance culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1043
In a near-future VR dystopia, two students/soldiers on separate missions uncover a conspiracy that could collapse both worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · virtual reality · real world · cyberpunk city · academy setting · militarized society · corporate state · climate-ravaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1059
A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · simulated current world · Silicon Valley · internet culture · social media world · tech industry · virtual world · online society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1073
A diver navigates a seductive virtual world and a dangerous rescue mission where freedom, identity, and reality blur.
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Setting labels: virtual reality · cyberspace · digital city · near future · 90s computing · internet culture · online game world · computer network society · dual reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1092
A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.
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Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1094
A near-future short story collection where technology, power, and survival collide in sharp, idea-driven sci-fi tales.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary future · post-apocalyptic · cyberspace · internet culture · global catastrophe · war zone · siege · online game worlds · robotic future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1105
A sprawling cyberpunk ensemble in near-future Los Angeles, where brain-linked media tech and corporate greed push reality to the brink.
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Setting labels: near future · future Los Angeles · corporate dystopia · networked society · virtual world · media-saturated world · urban future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1149
