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Setting labels used: Saudi Arabia, Middle East, America, college campus, contemporary, cross-cultural, political unrest, royal court, road trip
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A wounded black-ops operative returns to stop a secret cabal weaponizing plague, terror, and chaos worldwide.
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Setting labels: London · England · Scotland · Canada · South America · Nevada · Pennsylvania · Philadelphia · Washington · real world · contemporary · post-9/11
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2323
A small-town Iowa deputy and a CIA analyst uncover a bioweapon plot tangled in government bureaucracy during the Gulf War.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Midwest · Iowa · Washington, DC · Gulf War era · First Gulf War · 1990s · university town · college town · government offices · Middle East · US home front · America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2361
A final trilogy installment blends history, quantum ideas, and parallel selves as one man races to uncover his truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · past and present · past and future · Mamluk Egypt · medieval Islamic world · Saudi Arabia · Cairo · Jeddah · Riyadh · Tunis · Bukhara · Samarkand · Baghdad · Damascus · Alamut · America · parallel worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2412
A time-bending historical mystery follows a Saudi surgeon into Mongol-era Bukhara, where truth, memory, and power collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Saudi Arabia · Jeddah · Riyadh · Bukhara · Khwarezm · Mongol era · historical Middle East · multi-era setting · cross-temporal setting
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Distance: 0.2432
A college podcaster investigates a forgotten violinist’s murder and uncovers a supernatural killer erasing people from memory.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Los Angeles · Hollywood Bowl · college setting · road trip · 1990s · contemporary Earth · alternate-world crossover
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2445
A found-manuscript theory-horror where oil, war, and occult geopolitics converge in a paranoid vision of the Middle East.
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Setting labels: Istanbul · Middle East · desert · oil fields · War on Terror era · contemporary geopolitics · occult Earth · cosmic reality
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Distance: 0.2445
A global anthology of stories and poems reimagining djinn through fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and folklore.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · historical · future · futuristic · post-apocalyptic · space · Mars · Pakistan · Middle East · America · New York City · American West · sultan's court · mosque · flying drone surveillance
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2485
A college freshman resists a persistent player, only to uncover a time-traveling secret linking them across centuries.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college campus · dorms · present day · ancient Egypt · past and present · fantasy reality · war-torn past
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Distance: 0.2599
A genius private investigator with hallucinatory experts tackles strange cases, while his mind starts to unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · United States · contemporary setting · real world · global travel · religious stakes
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Distance: 0.2624
A Kurdish refugee’s encounter with an alien pulls her into a world-ending, morally fraught struggle over fate and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Central Park · Kurdistan · United States · Earth · 2010s · Obama era · contemporary setting · global conflict · war zone
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2635
A medically retired ex-SEAL in college stumbles into terrorist plots, then barrels into extreme violence, sex, and revenge.
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Setting labels: university campus · Georgia · Florida Keys · Syria · Russia · Amsterdam · Middle East · international · contemporary · real-world setting · war zone · terrorist hideout · strip club
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2665
Two students share a strange dorm room and discover it may be tied to jinn, fear, and a worsening supernatural threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university dorm · campus setting · Saudi Arabia · Eastern Province · 1990s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2701
