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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Book of Strange New Things.
Setting labels used: near future, outer space, distant planet, alien world, Earth collapse, interstellar colony, corporate base, apocalyptic Earth, climate collapse, civilizational breakdown
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An elderly architect on a dying Earth must choose between a lasting Martian monument and the lives it could help save.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dying Earth · Mars · post-apocalyptic world · failing civilization · abandoned colony · remote technology · space colonization · climate disaster
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0858
On a polluted Earth, a government investigator on a new colony uncovers a hidden alien truth tied to his missing wife.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · Earth · off-world colony · terraforming · underground society · polluted Earth · exoplanet · space colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0914
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: 0.0928
A future narrator recounts humanity’s rise, mutations, wars, and extinctions across billions of years.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · near future · alternate future · Earth · Mars · Venus · Neptune · solar system · deep time · post-apocalyptic · interplanetary · world state · climate collapse · spacefaring civilization · future Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0938
A clone warrior wakes on a far-future Earth and sets out to restore a lost empire amid alien worlds and surreal chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · distant future Earth · posthuman Earth · alien-infested Earth · interstellar empire · spacefaring civilization · multiple planets · cosmic scale · ruined Earth · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0953
Exiled teen criminals are sent from a failing space colony to test whether a ruined Earth can sustain human life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space colony · spaceship society · post-apocalyptic Earth · radioactive Earth · future Earth · future dystopia · sealed habitat · outer space · futuristic society · ruined planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0966
A secret sleeper program races to save a select few from an extinction-level comet and wakes into a changed world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Earth · underground shelters · secret facility · post-apocalyptic world · radiation crisis · dystopian future · apocalyptic Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1022
Nineteen YA short stories imagine what survives after collapse, from plague and war to monsters, walls, and strange new orders.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · near future · far future · space habitat · generation ship · walled society · ruined world · collapsed civilization · catastrophic future · alternate future · isolated communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1052
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1064
A mission to a supposedly ruined Earth exposes a future society’s lies, prejudice, and unexpected possibility.
Why this is here
Setting labels: distant future · Earth · off-world colony · post-climate catastrophe · near-future science fiction · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1071
A hidden woman on a ruined Earth is rescued by an alien king seeking a mate to save his dying race.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian Earth · alien homeworld · space travel · ruined civilization · scarce women · hostile society · apocalyptic future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1083
A devastated man learns Earth faces a rogue star, an ice age, and a hidden alien threat as his family races to survive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future Earth · solar system · United States · Texas · Mars · underground bunker · compound · apocalyptic future · cold climate · post-collapse world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1090
