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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for This Monstrous Thing.
Setting labels used: 1818 Geneva, early 19th century, 19th century Europe, alternate history, steampunk world, industrial atmosphere, wintry setting, Gothic setting, lab and castle setting, European cities
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Mary Shelley’s supernatural stories explore immortality, love, loss, and the curse of outliving everyone you know.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 19th century · Gothic setting · historical past · alchemical laboratory · isolated places · medieval atmosphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1913
An orphaned girl enters the Frankenstein household and learns survival may depend on controlling the boy she’s meant to serve.
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Setting labels: 18th century Europe · historical setting · Ingolstadt · Lake Geneva · manor house · orphanage · laboratory · gothic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2012
In a magical reimagining of early 1800s London, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace create a living boy and chase adventure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: early 1800s · 19th century · London · historical fantasy world · alternate history · fae world · industrial era · gothic atmosphere · scientific world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2049
In Victorian London, a public-facing scientist builds a haven for “rogue” minds while a dangerous secret and new arrivals threaten it.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian London · 19th-century London · alternate history · gothic world · steampunk London · scientific society · laboratory setting · historical fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2076
A scientist creates life from dead matter, then faces the human and moral consequences of abandoning his creation.
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Setting labels: Arctic · Swiss Alps · Geneva · Scotland · Europe · early 19th century · Romantic era · Gothic landscape · isolated frontier · natural world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2114
A gifted teen must cross into an alternate Italy to rescue her kidnapped mother and stop a world-altering conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate Victorian Italy · 19th century Italy · historical Italy · Italy · Earth · alternate history · multiverse · world within world · sentient house · steampunk setting · alternative realities · late 1800s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2264
In an alternate 1887 London, two private detectives chase impossible crimes and a kidnapping through a chaotic steampunk city.
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Setting labels: 1887 · alternate history · Victorian London · urban sprawl · large-scale engineered city · late 19th century · Britain · lower England · steampunk world · technological dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2321
A graphic retelling of Frankenstein follows a scientist, his creation, and the tragic fallout of bringing life to the dead.
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Setting labels: North Pole · frozen sea · Europe · Geneva · university setting · scientific setting · Gothic setting · 19th century · historical setting · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2329
A boy and his engineer father chase a missing mother's aether trail into a 1869 Bavarian space-race conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1869 · 19th century · alternate past · Bavaria · Germany · Europe · castle setting · industrializing era · space travel by balloon · retrofuture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2331
A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 19th century · laboratory · isolated landscapes · gothic setting · scientific setting · epistolary frame
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2338
Captured amid a war over time itself, a queer crew must choose between love, freedom, and catastrophic sacrifice.
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Setting labels: Victorian era · mid-19th century · London · Prague · Austria · India · airship · steampunk world · alternate history · clockwork world · global travel · fictionalized history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2354
In an ice-age alternate Europe, a student is forced into a magical marriage and pulled into secrets that could upend her world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate Europe · early 19th century · Victorian-era feel · ice age world · industrializing society · parallel spirit world · mage houses · college setting · frozen countryside · alternate Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2398
