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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for The Food of the Gods. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: science gone wrong, growth experiment, giants, contaminated food, agricultural innovation, uncontrolled spread, human-animal size change
Setting labels used: Edwardian England, British countryside, rural farm, early 20th century
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A reclusive scientist makes himself invisible, only to spiral into fear, crime, and violent ruin.
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Premise labels: invisibility · mad scientist · science experiment gone wrong · power corrupts · wanted criminal
Setting labels: English countryside · rural inn · village life · England · late 19th century · winter · small town · British countryside
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Distance: 0.2335
A crop-killing virus triggers famine and social collapse, forcing one family to fight through a brutal England to survive.
Why this is here
Premise labels: crop failure · food crisis · global famine · civilizational collapse · survival trek · government secrecy
Setting labels: Britain · London · rural England · northern valley · post-collapse world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2356
A farm animal uprising for equality turns into a chilling study of propaganda, power, and betrayal.
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Premise labels: animal uprising · revolution gone wrong · power corruption · farm rebellion · utopian promise · political allegory · totalitarian takeover
Setting labels: farm setting · English countryside · alternate political reality · allegorical setting · animal society · 20th century setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2369
A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.
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Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · ambition · forbidden knowledge · unnatural life · ethical experiment · created being · abandoned creation · responsibility
Setting labels: Swiss scenery · England · London · Oxford · 19th century · romantic era · gothic atmosphere · fictionalized reality · laboratory · mountains
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Distance: 0.2671
A Russian zoologist’s accidental scientific breakthrough is commandeered by the state, with disastrous results.
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Premise labels: scientific discovery · government interference · bureaucratic misuse · food shortage · experiment gone wrong · catastrophic consequence · state appropriation · science and power
Setting labels: 1920s Moscow · Soviet Russia · post-revolutionary Russia · near future · laboratory setting · rural countryside · state bureaucracy
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2707
A themed anthology of classic botanical horror tales where killer plants, fungi, and nature’s revenge take center stage.
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Premise labels: killer plants · botanical horror · man-eating plant · dangerous fungi · nature fights back
Setting labels: 19th century · early 20th century · Victorian era · Edwardian era · rural setting · country house · estate grounds · tropical jungle · Western frontier · nautical setting · island setting · historical fiction
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2721
A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.
Why this is here
Premise labels: sterile humanity · last generation · world without children · nuclear accident · civilizational collapse · nature reclaims world · aging population
Setting labels: near future · England · Oxford · Thames valley · post-apocalyptic world · river journey · quasi-medieval society · rural countryside · flooded landscape · reclaimed nature
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Distance: 0.2736
A quiet English village wakes to find all its women pregnant after a mysterious blackout, and the children are not ordinary.
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Premise labels: alien invasion · brood parasitism · mass impregnation · hidden threat · small village
Setting labels: English village · rural England · 1950s England · post-war Britain · small-town setting · contained setting · Cold War context
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2756
A scientist raises a dog with human intelligence, and his lonely life exposes the limits of belonging, love, and humanity.
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Premise labels: genetically engineered animal · uplifted animal · super-intelligent dog · outsider protagonist · human-animal boundary · created being · non-human consciousness · thought experiment
Setting labels: Britain · North Wales · Cambridge · East End of London · interwar period · World War II · farm setting · Welsh countryside · sheep country · 20th century
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Distance: 0.2807
An original 1818 Gothic classic where a scientist creates life, then faces the human cost of abandonment.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · scientific ambition · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral responsibility · playing god · monstrous outsider · unchecked progress
Setting labels: 18th century · Europe · Arctic · North Pole · natural landscapes · laboratory · gothic setting · travel narrative
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2825
Two classic Wells novellas: one sends a scientist into a distant human future; the other unleashes a dangerous invisibility experiment.
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Premise labels: time travel · invisibility · future civilization · mad scientist · social decline · class divide · scientific experiment · scientific hubris
Setting labels: late Victorian era · far future · small English town · English countryside · subterranean society · dying earth · industrial age
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2851
Five years after a rat outbreak, survivors regroup in a forest, where a ratcatcher faces a deadlier return.
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Premise labels: mutant animals · rampaging vermin · human prey · rat infestation · recurring outbreak · containment failure · survival struggle · vengeance quest
Setting labels: Epping Forest · London outskirts · rural forest · woodland preserve · urban-to-rural shift · 1970s · contemporary-to-public-health crisis · British countryside
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Distance: 0.2930
