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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Glitch in Sleep.
Setting labels used: Highland Park, New Jersey, parallel world, alternate dimension, secret workplace, bureaucratic fantasy, world behind the world, industrialized fantasy realm, corporate fantasy
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Bullied library kid Nita finds a wizard manual and joins another novice in a secret, science-inflected quest to save reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Long Island · library · alternate New York · parallel world · urban contemporary · cosmic fantasy · secret wizard world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1646
A magical company’s side characters take over the narration as Skeeve leads delegated jobs in a changing, comedic fantasy world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate dimensions · fantasy world · corporate setting · bureaucratic setting · magical workplace · demon dimension · high fantasy setting · fictional place
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1912
A slacker from Earth is recruited into a magical city where dreams, banter, and casework reshape his life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: parallel world · magical city · urban fantasy setting · dream world · alternate reality · fictional kingdom · bureaucratic magic · daily magic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1914
A kidnapped programmer and an eccentric mage must cross worlds to stop a hidden force tearing reality apart.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate world · parallel worlds · interdimensional · magic world · industrializing society · preindustrial society · contemporary Earth · 1980s technology · urban setting · fantasy realm
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1990
A transhuman engineer’s rescue of a falling man ignites a slow-burn web of secret agencies, aliens, and hidden power.
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Setting labels: New York City · parallel Earth · alternate universe · near future · shadow government world · spacefaring setting · secret world · corporate future · covert operations · post-90s rebooted continuity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2070
A young apprentice magician lands an impossible court job and must outwit an invading army with help from a sarcastic mentor and odd allies.
Why this is here
Setting labels: fantasy world · alternate dimension · inter-dimensional travel · kingdom · courtly setting · bazaar setting · imaginary place · multiple worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2086
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A rookie firefighter uncovers his force’s hidden agenda while a conspiracy around human combustions erupts into faction conflict.
Why this is here
Setting labels: industrial fantasy · firefighter organization · church-adjacent institution · militarized hierarchy · urban setting · alternate world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2109
A hardboiled fixer faces a cosmic enemy, a doomed world, and one last chance to save a child.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban fantasy world · covert supernatural reality · cosmic conflict backdrop · Long Island · New Jersey · series mythology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2111
An 11-year-old from New York is pulled into an underground world of prophecies, creatures, and war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban fantasy · underworld · under-city · New York City · underground realm · alternate world · surface world · fantasy ecosystem
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2116
Franks is framed by his own government, forcing a bloody run-and-gun battle to expose a secret monster-making project.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban fantasy world · contemporary United States · secret government agency · hidden monster society · secret facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2136
In a world where wealth determines literal size, two tiny siblings fight to survive and rise in a system built against them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate reality · parallel world · urban setting · shared dreamworld · life-and-death world · contemporary America analogue · USA analogue
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2141
A human-raised woman discovers she's a powerful seer tied to an oncoming war, and a dangerous guardian.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Earth · alternate Earth · parallel world · dystopian future · urban setting · San Francisco · hidden society · interdimensional realm · nonphysical realm · psychic realm · alternative history · modern-day fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2149
