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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Downward to the Earth. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: return to alien world, colonial return, redemption quest, postcolonial encounter, alien intelligences
Setting labels used: alien planet, jungle planet, future Earth, former colony, decolonized world, mystical wilderness, industrial remnants
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
On a distant colony world, an engineer’s buried secret and worsening anxiety surface when a stranger arrives.
Why this is here
Premise labels: colonization · alien planet · lost truth · secret colony · religious quest · mystery
Setting labels: alien planet · space colony · future setting · isolated colony · alien structure · post-Earth civilization · habitable planet
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1440
A memory-wiped teen leader and her group land on an alien world, only to face survival, betrayal, and war.
Why this is here
Premise labels: survival quest · memory loss · leadership struggle · alien world · fight or die · colonization conflict · coming-of-age under pressure · resource scarcity
Setting labels: alien planet · spacecraft · ruined city · jungle · tunnels · post-apocalyptic world · isolated colony · far-future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1454
Trapped on an alien world, a teen crew must mine a priceless resource while navigating lies from both humans and natives.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien planet · resource extraction · corporate control · survival quest · two-sided conflict · indigenous contact · teen crew · promised reward · trust dilemma · colonization conflict
Setting labels: alien planet · new world · space journey · futuristic · two moons · mining colony · planetary exploration · indigenous civilization · hostile landscape · offworld base
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1506
An alien colony leader learns their species is short-lived and sets out to outmaneuver human colonizers for a longer future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: first contact · colonial exploitation · alien perspective · lifespan quest · species survival · power imbalance · long-term planning
Setting labels: far-off colony · colonized planet · spacefaring future · alien world · off-world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1520
On a lethal ocean world, reanimated outcasts, war drones, hive minds, and monsters collide on a resurrection voyage.
Why this is here
Premise labels: resurrection quest · immortal world · ocean voyage · hive mind conflict · alien ecology · ancient war
Setting labels: ocean world · alien planet · far-future · spacefaring setting · Polity Universe
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1539
Crash-stranded survivors and their children struggle to preserve humanity on a hostile alien world.
Why this is here
Premise labels: survival · crash landing · hostile planet · lost colony · return home · civilization vs wilderness
Setting labels: alien planet · remote planet · forest world · icy climate · long winter · post-crash colony · spacefaring future · isolated settlement
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1554
In a thought-broadcasting colony world, a teen boy and a stranded girl are pulled into war, secrets, and uneasy alliances.
Why this is here
Premise labels: telepathy · thought-reading · alien encounter · human colony · survival quest · war and power · fleeing protagonists · moral conflict · coming of age · peace negotiation
Setting labels: alien planet · new colony · dystopian future · frontier settlement · war zone · post-Earth migration · speculative world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1557
A young colonist follows a forbidden road across a strange world to uncover the secrets behind his society.
Why this is here
Premise labels: colonized planet · road journey · planetary mystery · resource scarcity · coming of age · quest · colonial society
Setting labels: alien planet · human colony · isolated settlement · post-contact colony · frontier world · long-established colony · post apocalyptic feel · near-future space colonization
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1564
A misfit Australian teen wakes on an alien world, uncovering dangerous powers, hidden origins, and rival claims on her fate.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien world · plane crash · hidden heritage · special powers · political intrigue · survival story · identity quest · love triangle · homecoming
Setting labels: Australia · alien planet · alternate world · outback · jungle · forest · interstellar · multi-species society · parallel world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1572
A class-bound human laborer on a hostile colony planet helps free a captured alien—and becomes part of his escape.
Why this is here
Premise labels: colonization mission · class oppression · captured alien · forced proximity · enemy species · caretaker romance · hostage escape · planetary discovery · sentient outsider
Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian future · colonized planet · hostile planet · new colony · space colonization · alien planet · extraterrestrial society · wildlife reserve
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1588
On a fear-shaping alien world, a priest joins an uneasy party to reclaim a sorceress’s stolen mind and power.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien planet · memory loss · power restoration · forced alliance · demon hunt · quest · anti-hero teamup · humanity on world
Setting labels: alien planet · far future · colonized world · post-collapse · medieval level society · earth colony · seismically active world · fantasy world · dark forest · gothic atmosphere · unusual ecology · planetary magic
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1598
A stranded human colony on a sunless alien world faces collapse when a restless teen challenges its myths and limits.
Why this is here
Premise labels: lost colony · sunless planet · generation ship aftermath · accidental colony · survival society · return to Earth · rebel youth · cultural drift
Setting labels: sunless planet · alien world · perpetual night · geothermal world · bioluminescent ecology · remote colony · post-crash colony · hunter-gatherer settlement
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1627
