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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for A Wind in the Door.
Setting labels used: contemporary Earth, school setting, home setting, subcellular setting, inner body, cosmic setting, alternate reality, space and time, microcosmic world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A naive alien uses time travel to try to save a bullied fourth grader, but each fix deepens a tragic spiral.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · school setting · home setting · elementary school · childhood world · alien world · dystopian atmosphere · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0970
A superpowered teen alien hunter follows a deadly list of targets while chasing the alien who killed his parents.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · home planet · alien world · school setting · urban travel · small-town cover identity · contemporary setting · outer-space travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1252
In a modern alternate universe, mutant youths gather under Xavier while Magneto and the government push the world toward war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate universe · modern America · Earth-like world · secret-government world · school setting · global setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1280
A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1316
A boy with unstable powers must stop a revenge-driven villain from destroying realities before the universe collapses.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate realities · parallel worlds · science-fantasy world · space and time · home setting · schooling at home · nonexistent place
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1382
A teen secretly linked to a parasite is pulled into escalating danger as other parasites infiltrate society and politics.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary Earth · urban society · human society · political sphere · school setting · social infiltration setting · scientific/observational reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1405
A three-book time-travel fantasy following the Murray family through cosmic quests, spiritual battles, and big ideas.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space and time · other planets · Earth · microscopic world · inside the body · cosmic setting · small-town school setting · fictional universe · 1960s context
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1414
An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1419
An alien bored with her life steals a madness coat and wakes in a hated Earth teen's body, where school and identity turn surreal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: planet Meta · Earth · high school · hospital · alien world · contemporary setting · space travel · teen social world · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1447
A nervous boy moving to a futuristic planet must adjust to a strange new home, school, and friends.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · new planet · space travel · future setting · year 2120 · school setting · home setting · fictional planet · space-age setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1449
A disgraced physicist is thrust into a bizarre multiverse quest after an inheritance unlocks reality-bending secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · multiverse · parallel realities · urban setting · scientific setting · hotel setting · alternate worlds · near-future science
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1456
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1460
