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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale.
Setting labels used: 1950s, Cold War era, post-nuclear Earth, post-apocalyptic future, radioactive wasteland, small-town America, outer space, interplanetary travel, alternate realities, pulp-era future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A mid-1950s PKD story collection of paranoia, mutations, robots, and reality-bending ideas in compact form.
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Setting labels: 1950s · post-nuclear world · post-apocalyptic wasteland · Earth · Moon · planetary colonies · US-centric settings · future society
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Distance: 0.1031
Ten Philip K. Dick short stories collected as the source material for Electric Dreams, built around reality, tech, and human anxiety.
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Setting labels: near-future · future America · 1950s America · Cold War era · spacefaring future · dystopian future · alternate reality · post-apocalyptic future · authoritarian society
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Distance: 0.1057
A chronological anthology of classic sci-fi stories by women, tracing the genre from pulp-era invention to New Wave experimentation.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · space · alien worlds · post-apocalyptic · atomic age · pulp era · mid-20th century · interplanetary · Earth
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Distance: 0.1214
A survival-minded family rides out nuclear war in a bunker, then discovers a radically altered future society.
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Setting labels: Cold War · future world · post-apocalyptic world · alternate future · nuclear war era · American family home · wilderness survival
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Distance: 0.1223
A small American town is hurled into the far future by a nuclear blast and must survive on a dying Earth.
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Setting labels: small-town America · Midwest · 1950s · far future · dead Earth · domed city · alien world · post-nuclear future · Cold War era
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Distance: 0.1272
Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust
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Distance: 0.1300
A moon-obsessed teen wins a space suit, then gets swept into a far stranger adventure that tests science and nerve.
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Setting labels: near future · 1950s future · small-town America · Moon · Pluto · deep space · intergalactic · lunar base · space station
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Distance: 0.1377
An astronaut is remade into a cyborg to survive Mars, while the project’s human, political, and hidden costs mount.
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Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · Cold War era · nuclear brinkmanship · post-crisis world · United States · Oklahoma · space program · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1398
A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.
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Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · post-apocalyptic · Antarctica · nuclear war · alternative reality · surreal future
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Distance: 0.1421
A 100-story, author-selected anthology tracing Bradbury’s career across sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and nostalgic human drama.
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Setting labels: Mars · Venus · small-town America · suburbia · mid-20th century · future · post-apocalyptic · nuclear age · outer space · otherworldly
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Distance: 0.1428
A 1970s short-fiction collection of eerie, layered tales where reality, memory, and storybooks keep slipping apart.
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Setting labels: island · space travel · spaceship · post-apocalyptic America · frozen wasteland · alien world · dilapidated future city · posthuman world · near future · alternate reality · deserted ruins · liminal landscape
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Distance: 0.1483
A vintage SF collection of sharp, funny, idea-driven stories about alien encounters, warped futures, and reality-bending twists.
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Setting labels: spacefaring · far future · 1950s-era future · suburbia · small town · alien planet · parallel dimension · time-bending reality · postwar future
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Distance: 0.1503