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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Absolute Promethea, Book One.
Setting labels used: futuristic New York, alternate reality, near-future, metaphysical realm, afterlife, collective unconscious, mythic reality
Focused on “global cities” 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.
Two strangers receive a 24-hour death warning and use a friend-finding app to spend their final day together.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · alternate world · New York · urban setting · speculative reality · technology-mediated
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0848
New York’s living avatars must unite other cities to stop a multiversal threat and a very human political takeover.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern day · contemporary urban setting · global cities · multiverse · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1228
A themed best-of anthology of Harlan Ellison’s short fiction, mixing iconic SF, horror, and surreal, unsettling tales.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternative reality · mythic space · afterlife · city life · time-bending
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0939
Two ghosts drift through a collapsing future, watching humanity’s appetite for sex, violence, and spectacle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future New York City · dystopian future · afterlife · post-apocalyptic · world in collapse · limbo · earthbound ghosts · futuristic city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1152
A superpowered teen team faces a new deadly villain and a reality-shaking truth in the final Monster installment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · New York City · Las Vegas · return to prior setting · superhuman reality · simulation reality · alternate dimension · scientific-fantasy hybrid
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1207
A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · New York City · 1990s · early 2000s · near future · contemporary realism · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1234
Six linked sci-fi stories in shifting realities slowly reveal a hidden pattern, forcing readers to solve the puzzle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate reality · dark future · post-apocalyptic world · surreal reality · multiple worlds · time-bent setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1291
Ultron conquers the world, and the surviving heroes risk time itself to stop him before history breaks.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · New York City · Manhattan · Savage Land · future timeline · past timeline · alternate reality · multiverse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1305
A journalist chasing a serial killer across nearly identical realities gets pulled into the multiverse herself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · subway · open house · parallel universes · alternate realities · multiverse · slightly altered worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1322
A college student researching a mythic heroine becomes the next avatar of imagination in a futuristic New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: weirdly futuristic New York · alternate timeline · 1999 · near-future city · Immateria · world of imagination · material vs immaterial worlds · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1335
A rogue internet intelligence and a Holmes-like detective collide in a grotesque, occult-laced mystery in modern New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern New York · internet age · contemporary setting · urban setting · occult reality · technological uncanny · global system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1340
A linked collection of dark short fiction where modern gods, human cruelty, and myth collide in bleak, shocking tales.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1970s · urban America · future America · liminal reality · mythic reality · fantasy world · parallel realities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1362
