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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Tommyknockers.
Setting labels used: small town, rural community, Maine, woods, backyard discovery, isolated town, post-Cold War era, 1980s
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A Maine town is trapped under an invisible barrier, and isolation turns neighbors into rivals in a fight for control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Maine · rural town · isolated community · contemporary world · contained setting · pressure-cooker setting · dystopian setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1639
A Maine town is suddenly sealed inside an invisible dome, forcing its people into a deadly struggle for power and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Maine · contemporary setting · isolated community · sealed-off town · limited area
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1656
In 1945 Maine, a teen boy and his friends confront a truth-spewing craze that hides a far stranger alien danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1940s America · 1945 · small town · wartime home front · Maine · Second World War · alternate Earth · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1764
A small town becomes the test site for a subliminal mind-control scheme that turns fear, greed, and violence loose.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · isolated town · rural setting · mill town · logging town · forest setting · Maine · 1970s · real-world setting · American small town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1772
In an 1980s small town, grieving parents uncover a secret genetic project tied to missing and endangered children.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Massachusetts · 1980s · New England · contemporary 1980s setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1800
In a Maine farm community after technology stops working, a writer’s past returns in a strange nuclear-powered vehicle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Maine · coastal Maine · peninsula community · post-collapse America · near future · small fictional town · fragmented United States · post-technological world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1843
A sister must protect her mentally ill brother as a townwide outbreak turns sanity into a weapon and forces an impossible choice.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Maine · Seattle · quarantine zone · contemporary · pandemic era feel · rural community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1887
A man born knowing the exact day the world ends must decide what still matters in a life on countdown.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rural Maine · 20th century · Atari era · contemporary America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1909
A bored Maine man is pulled into a history-spanning chase for the literal American Dream with a mysterious traveler.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Maine small town · American history · United States · contemporary/historical mix · roadside America · cross-country
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1917
After nuclear war devastates the U.S., a small Florida town must improvise survival, order, and hope from ruin.
Why this is here
Setting labels: central Florida · small town · rural town · Cold War era · 1950s America · post-nuclear aftermath · isolated community · wartime America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1931
A horror writer in a Maine seaside town faces a crab-like monster invasion, only to learn the beasts fear something worse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: coastal Maine · small town · seaside village · isolated town · ocean depths · storm · winter setting · late 1990s · pre-2000s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2020
A North Carolina town rebuilding after an EMP faces a new government draft and a fight over who controls recovery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · North Carolina · post-EMP · post-collapse America · national breakdown · wartime America · rural community · former United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2031
