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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Quicker Than the Eye.
Setting labels used: American settings, small-town America, nostalgic past, contemporary pastiche, alternate reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A late Bradbury story collection of lyrical, nostalgic vignettes about love, memory, aging, and strange everyday moments.
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Setting labels: small-town America · nostalgic America · Paris · Mars · space · dreamlike settings
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1212
In an alternate America where calling someone stupid is illegal, one outspoken professor’s life and friendships unravel.
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Setting labels: alternate America · near future · contemporary setting · small-town America · university setting · media world · home and family setting
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Distance: 0.1261
A 100-story Bradbury anthology spanning decades of short fiction, blending sci-fi, horror, fantasy, nostalgia, and wonder.
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Setting labels: American settings · small-town America · Green Town · Mars · Ireland · future settings · mid-20th century to late-20th century
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Distance: 0.1448
The Fantastic Four hide out on a farmhouse and face four self-contained sci-fi mysteries about memory, time, and hope.
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Setting labels: small-town America · rural farmhouse · temporary home · countryside · space-time anomalies · deep space · Earth's core · time travel · ghost story atmosphere
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Distance: 0.1524
Fourteen darkly funny, unsettling stories follow alienated misfits, bodily disgust, and failed attempts at connection.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · urban setting · New York · Los Angeles · small town · working class setting · middle class setting · everyday realism · grounded realism · slightly surreal
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1611
A burned-out woman begins disappearing and must trace her art-wielding father through the houses of her past.
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Setting labels: contemporary · American setting · multiple homes · house-centered · small-scale domestic setting · magical reality
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Distance: 0.1621
An ex-con is pulled into a cross-country struggle between fading old gods and rising new ones in modern America.
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Setting labels: United States · small-town America · cross-country journey · modern America · mythic America · roadside Americana · urban-rural mix · contemporary setting
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Distance: 0.1660
A short story collection using surreal satire to probe consumerism, media, fear, and fragile humanity in American life.
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Setting labels: American settings · suburban America · urban America · near future · alternative reality · consumerist dystopia · media-saturated world · late-capitalist world · contemporary America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1664
An alcoholic reporter investigates a deadly expedition mystery and is drawn into a seductive, shape-shifting conspiracy.
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Setting labels: small-town America · airport setting · Mongolia expedition · ancient prehistory · mid-20th century · noir-inflected reality · urban setting
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Distance: 0.1678
A teen chases his missing parents through time portals that warp history, faith, and his family’s future.
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Setting labels: small-town Minnesota · rural America · future world · alternate reality · historical periods · religious community · postdigital future
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Distance: 0.1687
A varied anthology of Vonnegut short fiction blending satire, dystopia, romance, war, and strange speculative ideas.
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Setting labels: midcentury America · postwar era · future dystopia · Cold War era · small-town settings · overcrowded future · wartime settings
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Distance: 0.1698
A posthumous collection of unpublished Vonnegut short fiction, one essay, and an unfinished sci-fi fragment.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · urban life · suburbia · train journey · theater world · office setting · small town · science fiction future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1743
