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Setting labels used: dystopian future, near future, Mars, part-terraformed Mars, advanced technology, riot-plagued society, scientific future, speculative future
Focused on “near future” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
On a polluted Earth, a government investigator on a new colony uncovers a hidden alien truth tied to his missing wife.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · Earth · off-world colony · terraforming · underground society · polluted Earth · exoplanet · space colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0882
Philip K. Dick’s final collected stories volume gathers late-era SF tales of reality, faith, paranoia, and damaged futures.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian future · spacefaring setting · Earth colonies · Mars · off-world · fictional future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0965
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0966
An outlaw journalist races to expose a corrupt president in a profane, darkly funny near-future political satire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Near future · Dystopian future · Hyper-urban city · Decaying metropolis · Political future · Technological future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1070
A girl who dreams of storytelling must save human memory after Earth’s fall and a shipboard regime erases the past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · space travel · generation ship · new planet · post-Earth · near future · stasis sleep · colonization · future colony · desert imagery
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1136
In a deathless future run by AI, two teens are trained to choose who dies and must decide what justice means.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic world · post-mortal era · near future · dystopian future · utopian veneer · global society · planetary scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1159
A cheerful Mars weatherman with missing memories becomes the galaxy’s most wanted man after a deadly conspiracy resurfaces.
Why this is here
Setting labels: terraformed Mars · far future · solar system · post-apocalyptic Earth · colonized planets · futuristic society · dystopian future · spacefaring setting · neon cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0861
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An oppressed miner on Mars infiltrates an elite caste and academy to dismantle the society that enslaved his people.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · future society · mining society · terraformed planet · color-coded hierarchy · dystopian world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0939
A scholar, future machines, and far-future humans collide in a Mars-set Trojan War reenactment driven by gods.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · terraformed Mars · Jupiter moons · Earth future · solar system · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate history · mythic future · spacefaring civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0965
Seventeen queer YA sci-fi stories imagine future worlds of love, struggle, survival, and identity across the galaxy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future · space · Mars · space station · planetary airport · dystopian future · cyberpunk world · alternate universe · time loop · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0966
A cut-up sci-fi satire where a police agent battles a language-virus conspiracy and systems of control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · science fictional world · earth · outer space · interstellar · media-saturated world · cityscape · paranoid reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0969
A short-story anthology returns to the Scythedom across its past, present, and future, revealing backstories and new angles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-death society · immortal society · Scythedom · Mars · space settlement · multiple continents · multiple regions · future timeline · world-building
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0970
