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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Cities of the Red Night.
Setting labels used: 18th century, 20th century, global setting, Central America, Panama, South America, Old West, dystopian future, alternate reality, fictional cities, colonial era
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A genre-bending story collection traces Central American lives across past, present, and future through migration, memory, and uncanny change.
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Setting labels: Central America · El Salvador · United States · past present future · alternate history · near future · dystopian future · Mars · heaven · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1707
A foul-mouthed vampire leader builds her power and allies while hunting revenge for a brutal personal loss.
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Setting labels: contemporary world · global travel · South America · Central America · South of the Border · United States · urban fantasy world · science-fantasy world · military setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1735
Four linked Butler novels trace telepathy, mutation, and power struggles across centuries in a bleak, visionary saga.
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Setting labels: ancient Africa · colonial America · modern-day Los Angeles · near future · distant future · postapocalyptic · dystopian future · alternate history · speculative future · cosmic invasion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1751
A retired temporal agent turned costume maker must track a deadly time-travel plague across history to save travelers.
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Setting labels: Toronto · near-future · alternate future · alternate history · time travel world · 14th century Mali · 12th century Scotland · pre-Columbian North America · pre-Columbian Maine · ancient history · Canada · future Canada · alternate Earth · dystopian United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1829
A chronological graphic anthology of zombie outbreaks across history, told as recorded incidents and survival accounts.
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Setting labels: historical setting · global setting · prehistoric · ancient world · modern era · alternate history · near-present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1846
Elijah Snow’s buried past surfaces as Planetary confronts a secretive enemy and the hidden history of the 20th century.
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Setting labels: 20th century · early 20th century · historical fantasy · alternate history · secret history · Earth · global settings · pulp-era world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1846
An immortal cyborg and a literary specialist spend centuries hunting a missing friend and uncovering a vast Company conspiracy.
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Setting labels: past and future · centuries-spanning · California · Hollywood · late 20th century · 24th century · near-future · alternate history · dystopian future · global scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1851
A legacy hero and allies race to stop worldwide disasters while untangling politics, powers, and an old enemy.
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Setting labels: future setting · global setting · international · worldwide · fictional future world · political world
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Distance: 0.1865
Sixteen YA speculative stories center Black girls and Black women across fantasy, sci-fi, myth, and magic.
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Setting labels: past · present · future · historical settings · fantastical worlds · near-future · dystopian · urban fantasy · high fantasy · old west · New Mexico · sea/coastal settings · island setting · sugar plantation · space · postapocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1870
A drafted physicist in a near-future war uncovers mind-link tech and a science project that could remake humanity.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · 2040s · mid-21st century · global war · Central America · South America · Africa · post-scarcity society · terrestrial SF
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1872
A mixed-genre story collection of humane, humorous speculative tales about AI, magic, family, and survival.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary Earth · alternate present · historical fantasy · World War II era · Holocaust-era Prague · pandemic setting · war zone · colonial North America · outer space immigrants
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1874
A rainforest boy becomes an eco-avenger whose war on exploitation forces readers to question violence, justice, and survival.
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Setting labels: rainforest setting · Amazonia · Latin America · global scope · near-contemporary setting · fictionalized South America · political reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1886
