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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Electric Church.
Setting labels used: near future, dystopian future, cyberpunk future, unified world, ruined city, New York, crapsack world, post-collapse society
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · urban decay · media-saturated future · political future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0643
A lone surviving Turtle in a ruined future NYC fights for revenge, justice, and his lost family’s legacy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future New York City · post-apocalyptic city · dystopian future · fortress city · cyberpunk future · underground city · ruined metropolis · technological future · alternate universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0737
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0738
A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society
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Distance: 0.0795
A grim hitman with a code hunts a runaway girl in bombed-out future New York split between streets and virtual escape.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future New York · post-apocalyptic city · dirty bomb aftermath · localized apocalypse · urban ruin · virtual reality world · cyberspace · limnosphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0801
A genetically enhanced assassin gets an unexpected protection job in a brutal cyberpunk future full of secrets and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: cyberpunk world · dystopian future · near-future · megacity · immortal society · corporate-controlled world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0819
In a near-future VR dystopia, two students/soldiers on separate missions uncover a conspiracy that could collapse both worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · virtual reality · real world · cyberpunk city · academy setting · militarized society · corporate state · climate-ravaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0829
In a near-future crime underworld, a weary anti-hero chases a dangerous, addictive substance and a missing artist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 21st century · near future · future New York City · Paris · dystopian city · crumbling cities · urban underworld · retrofuture · cyberpunk future · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0840
A future street thief discovers she is the next Slayer and must save a broken city from demons and vampires.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · Manhattan · urban slum · future New York · cyberpunk city · monster-filled city · radiation-damaged world
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Distance: 0.0842
An ex-cop junkie in a vertical cyberpunk city rescues human clones and is dragged back into his own buried past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · city-sized mall · vertical city · cloning farm · corporate state · alternate dimension · surreal otherworld
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Distance: 0.0852
A data courier with a brain implant must outrun criminals and recover stolen secrets before the information destroys him.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future Japan · Beijing · United States · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · high-tech wasteland · urban future · twenty-first century · globalized future
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Distance: 0.0857
A censored gonzo journalist takes on a newly elected president, chasing corruption through a violent, media-saturated city.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · urban sprawl · corrupt city · near-future politics · high-tech society · media-saturated world · grim future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0864
A poisoned spy infiltrates a powerful enhanced super-soldier’s circle and falls for the one man she can’t kill.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-dystopian · 2040 · London · New York City · near-future America · cyberpunk aesthetic · corporate-controlled society · technologically advanced world
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Distance: 0.0868
A cyborg writer posing as AI races against debt, deadlines, and a draining battery in a corporate dystopia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future city · cyberpunk city · dystopian future · corporate dystopia · late capitalism · megacorp control · working-class precarity · slums
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0885
An annual best-of anthology of 20 speculative stories chosen by R.F. Kuang from the previous year's SF and fantasy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future world · modern day · contemporary · suburban · apocalyptic · cyberpunk · interstellar · space travel · fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0902
Two ghosts drift through a collapsing future, watching humanity’s appetite for sex, violence, and spectacle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future New York City · dystopian future · afterlife · post-apocalyptic · world in collapse · limbo · earthbound ghosts · futuristic city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0916
Ultron conquers the world, and the surviving heroes risk time itself to stop him before history breaks.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · New York City · Manhattan · Savage Land · future timeline · past timeline · alternate reality · multiverse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0917
A cyborg special agent hunts cybercriminals in a near-future Japan where minds, bodies, and identity are under siege.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · 21st century · mid-21st century · futuristic Japan · dystopian future · cyberpunk world · networked society · technologically advanced world
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Distance: 0.0927
An elite boy in a sealed futuristic city shelters a fugitive, triggering a conspiracy and a bond that could change everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic city · walled city · dystopian society · authoritarian city · near future · controlled city · post-collapse world
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Distance: 0.0944
A hardboiled detective probes the murder of a gigantic elite Titan in a near-future society built on life-extending biotech.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · fictional city · urban noir · corporate dystopia · rich enclave · class-stratified society · posthuman society · cyberpunk-like setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0952
In a near-future New York, three interwoven love stories unfold amid sex work, art, and everyday struggle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future New York · Manhattan · 2038 · near future · urban dystopia · recognizable city · cyberpunk city · grimy future · commercialized intimacy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0961
A silent wanderer crosses a vast vertical megastructure searching for a gene that may restore humanity’s link to the Net.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · vertical city · megacity · megastructure · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · industrial wasteland · post-human setting · cybernetic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0969
A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
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Distance: 0.0973
In 2075 New York, a Filipino American corporate hacker is sent to probe a billionaire’s secrets and falls into doomed desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 2075 · near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · capitalist society · late-stage capitalism · fractured nation · post-war society · technological future · corporate city · futuristic Americas
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0982
