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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Dr. Bloodmoney.
Setting labels used: Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area, Marin County, Berkeley, West Marin, post-apocalyptic, nuclear aftermath, near future, ruined civilization, small town, rural, pastoral
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In plague-ravaged San Francisco, artists defend their city from a would-be empire using creativity, not force.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Northern California · post-apocalyptic city · plague aftermath · near future · ruins · ghost-haunted city · post-technological · post-pandemic · American West
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1601
A future valley society is revealed through songs, stories, notes, and one woman’s life in a post-collapse world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic · Northern California · Napa Valley · San Francisco Bay area · Pacific coast · indeterminate future · Earth after collapse · low-tech future · fictional valley · archival future · recovered future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1608
An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · near-future · future past · post-plague world · ruined urban landscape · tribal society · post-collapse wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1849
After civilization collapses, two orphaned sisters in a Northern California forest must learn survival, loss, and change.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Northern California · redwood forest · rural isolation · off-grid home · post-collapse world · post-electricity · forest homestead · sparsely populated · American apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1878
A frontier investigator in a resource-rationed future must solve a murder that reaches beyond her community’s rules.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-collapse · future California · coastal frontier · isolated communities · marshland · estuary · outskirts · low-tech future · agrarian society · nomadic fringe · ruins · isolated settlement · ecological scarcity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1940
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1969
After a family tragedy, a grieving teen and her uncle uncover an ancient cosmic threat lurking beneath a coastal town.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Northern California · California coast · small town · seaside town · new development · subdivision · smart homes · redwood groves · rural community · modern world · contemporary setting · haunted community · Lost Coast · built on ancient land
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1975
A teen in quarantined post-nuclear California is pulled toward rebellion when outsiders arrive with news of the wider world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: southern California · Orange County · coastal village · post-nuclear future · 2047 · isolated communities · alternate history · ruined infrastructure · low-tech society · quarantine
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1996
A pandemic-ravaged Earth faces a second threat from alien invaders as survivors fight, adapt, and resist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · ruined America · New York · Los Angeles · upstate Idaho · Redding, California · Catalina Island · dystopian future · worldwide collapse · survivalist wilderness · ruins of cities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2003
In 1950s California, a socially adrift man moves in with his sister's family and exposes their hidden dysfunction.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1950s California · Northern California · Marin County · San Francisco Bay Area · rural California · suburban setting · small-town setting · postwar America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2013
A bike messenger and a fired security man are drawn into a near-future California chase over high-tech glasses.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles · Bay Bridge community · post-earthquake · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2027
In a post-nuclear world, a compound leader hunts the truth behind undead attacks while grief, magic, and betrayal close in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear war aftermath · radiation altered DNA · Monterey, California · compound community · dystopian future · desolate America · territorial conflict · zombie apocalypse · rebuilding society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2031
