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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Denton Little's Deathdate.
Setting labels used: near-present world, alternate reality, high school, senior prom, future society, deathdate culture
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A near-future human and ant revolution unfold in parallel, pushing both species toward uneasy understanding.
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Setting labels: near future · Paris · forest · high school · ant colony · human world · alternate society · contemporary reality
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Distance: 0.1307
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1379
In a dystopian YA finale, Tatum races to uncover her erased past, expose the Program, and reclaim the truth.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · high school · institutional control · medical/clinical setting · memory-alteration reality
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Distance: 0.1392
In a segregated near-future, a Black woman at a time-travel company uncovers a history-warping secret.
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Setting labels: near future · 2030 · alternate history · dystopian future · United States · segregated society · time travel present
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Distance: 0.1398
A themed best-of anthology of Harlan Ellison’s short fiction, mixing iconic SF, horror, and surreal, unsettling tales.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternative reality · mythic space · afterlife · city life · time-bending
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Distance: 0.1451
Two separated twins collide in a future where infertile adults pay teens to have babies—and belief systems clash.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-virus society · highly controlled society · religious enclave · consumerist society · school setting
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Distance: 0.1461
In a world where people have nine lives, a teen who refuses to burn them uncovers a hidden conspiracy.
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Setting labels: alternate world · parallel universe · near-future society · high school · private school · government clinics · rebirth lakes · dystopian society
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Distance: 0.1463
A deadpan hitman takes a time-travel job to kill Hitler, but the mission goes sideways and reshapes his life.
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Setting labels: alternate world · near-present · past and present · time travel · legalized murder · anthropomorphic world
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Distance: 0.1478
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: 0.1488
A teen who sees impossible things fears she's losing her mind, until a secretive boy suggests the danger is real.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · dystopian society · parallel reality · high school setting · mental institution · government-controlled society · anti-religion setting
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Distance: 0.1493
An anthology of ordinary people navigating a world where time fractures, realities collide, and crisis becomes daily life.
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Setting labels: modern society · alternate world · post-apocalyptic world · multiverse · parallel Earths · time-disrupted reality · red-light district · workday life
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Distance: 0.1499
A grief-stricken teen is pulled into a secret, deadly game to fight aliens, with no training and no easy answers.
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Setting labels: contemporary high school · hidden alien war · parallel dimension · video game-like world · time and space travel
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Distance: 0.1501
