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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for As She Climbed Across the Table.
Setting labels used: university campus, physics laboratory, academic environment, California, contemporary setting
Focused on “contemporary” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A short sci-fi experiment with time travel spirals into paradoxes, repeated revisions, and a race to contain the fallout.
Why this is here
Setting labels: research facility · science lab · contemporary · time travel universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2277
A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experiment that transforms his mind, then forces him to face the cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · school · workplace · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2104
A college freshman trapped in a time loop teams up with her physics rival as friendship turns romantic.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college campus · university setting · dorm life · physics class · college newspaper · fraternity party · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2408
A grieving college senior must sell 200 stolen orgasm pills in 48 hours or die, with help from her campus drug dealer.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college town · university campus · San Francisco · adult contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2248
A teen gets a magical do-over after cheating on her boyfriend, but changing one mistake scrambles everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2637
An artificial consciousness must help save humanity when the sun starts dying far too soon.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university lab · college campus · Boston university · lab environment · dying Earth · solar apocalypse · scientific research setting · simulated living space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2351
A brilliant autistic inventor’s sound-recreating device draws government and criminal forces into a deadly chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · government facility · institutional setting · secret research setting · urban chase · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2687
A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university town · academic setting · small town · academic community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2505
An aging poet accepts a lucrative corporate challenge to co-write a poem with an AI and is changed by the collaboration.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · San Francisco · New York · tech headquarters · corporate campus · modern day · contemporary · realist setting · speculative setting · poetry world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2806
Two teens enter a brutal truth-only contest where every lie costs them, and every loss reveals a deeper secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · high-tech · experimental setting · competition venue · everyday life · family home · workplace
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2814
A kidnapped physics professor wakes in a different life and must fight to return to the family he knows.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · small college · urban · contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · lab setting · warehouse setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2819
A disgraced scientist chases a mysterious deep-space signal that could mean alien life, a hoax, or a coverup.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · Earth · space science · government lockdown · research facilities · astronomy · science classroom · labs · bureaucratic state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2837
