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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Timescape.
Setting labels used: 1998, 1962, 1963, Cambridge, La Jolla, UC San Diego, university setting, academic setting, near-future Earth, California, England, oceanic crisis
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A chaotic detective mystery links ghosts, quantum weirdness, a missing cat, and time travel through one grand interconnected puzzle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · present day · 1980s · London · Cambridge · university setting · cross-dimensional · time travel · alternate reality · contemporary fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2557
A 1950s Asimov collection of earthbound sci-fi shorts, where future tech, humor, and social puzzles collide on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · 1950s imagined future · mid-century sf future · domestic future · academic settings · technological society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2596
A giant comet threatens Earth, and a sprawling cast struggles through warning, impact, and survival after civilization falls.
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Setting labels: late 1970s · California · Southern California · United States · post-catastrophe Earth · Cold War era · space mission
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2607
Scientists race to understand a mysterious cloud heading for the Sun before its arrival transforms life on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · Solar System · mid-20th century future · observatories · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2629
When benevolent aliens impose peace on Earth, humanity gains utopia—at a mysterious cost to its future.
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Setting labels: Earth · mid-20th century future · global scale · spacefaring era · postwar context · futuristic Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2648
After a doomsday-obsessed mother vanishes, her triplet daughters uncover a guide that sends them searching for the truth.
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Setting labels: California · England · United Kingdom · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · near future · climate disaster setting · collapsed society · New Pacific
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2650
A near-future American epic where climate crisis and political breakdown pull a vast cast toward collapse and hard choices.
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Setting labels: near future · 2013-2040 · 2013-2039 · 2013-2040s · early 21st century · American setting · United States · California · Wyoming · Gulf Coast · Los Angeles · Midwest · Washington, DC · climate-ravaged world · post-collapse future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2660
A brief companion epilogue revisits a long-awaited reunion through Day’s memory-frayed, deeply emotional perspective.
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Setting labels: Antarctica · United States · Los Angeles · postwar world · near-future · dystopian future · series world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2674
When Earth faces mysterious alien omens and contradictory visitors, scientists and leaders race toward an apparently unavoidable apocalypse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · Jupiter system · Death Valley · Australia · 1990s future · contemporary Earth · global crisis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2695
A posthumous collection of Lewis fragments and stories exploring time, myth, space travel, and unsettling other worlds.
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Setting labels: Oxford · Cambridge · Mars · Moon · ancient Greece · Troy · Othertime · alternate reality · space-age future · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2697
A wealthy young clone wakes accused of murder and races to uncover the truth about his memory gaps and family trauma.
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Setting labels: near future · Los Angeles · southern California · Salton Sea · dystopian future · climate-altered future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2709
A doctor stranded in a death-worshipping future must survive a society that outlawed healing and time itself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future society · distant future · post-crash future · 16th century California · Mars · American West Coast
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2714
