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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Girlfriend in a Coma.
Setting labels used: Vancouver, late 1970s, 1990s, near-future apocalypse, end of the world, contemporary Canada
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
When almost everyone stops sleeping, one rare sleeper watches society unravel into madness and cultlike violence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Vancouver · Canada · contemporary world · post-apocalyptic world · urban setting · global setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1357
Two uploaded groups—astronauts and prisoners—wake centuries later on ruined Earth and must cooperate to survive.
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Setting labels: 2059 · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · Waterloo, Ontario · Canada · interstellar travel era · virtual reality · quantum simulation · cryostasis · ruined future world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1968
After world-shaking earthquakes, four teens race to survive as ordinary people become murderous, rage-filled hunters.
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Setting labels: contemporary · apocalypse onset · Earth · North America · United States · Canada · Seattle · Vancouver · small town · cities · rural areas · post-earthquake devastation · collapsed society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2095
Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.
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Setting labels: Vancouver Island · British Columbia · Canada · West Coast Canada · Pacific Northwest · Cowichan Valley · near future · late 21st century · early 22nd century · post-pandemic · post-collapse · isolated community · small town · suburb · flooded infrastructure · climate-ravaged future · partially globalized future · space-age backdrop
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2176
Three strangers follow separate covert trails through art, spycraft, and addiction toward a hidden global scheme.
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Setting labels: post-9/11 · contemporary present · near-future · alternate present · United States · New York City · Los Angeles · Vancouver · Canada · globalized world · intelligence world · art world
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Distance: 0.2180
In a post-fauna world, two young women navigate grief, love, and absurd survival as a billionaire promises a time machine.
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Setting labels: pre-apocalyptic world · post-apocalyptic world · post-fauna world · lockdown · contemporary setting · internet age · social media era · college-age milieu · Canada · Montreal · California
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Distance: 0.2197
A wounded gunslinger crosses portals into New York to recruit three fated companions for his quest.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · parallel worlds · contemporary New York · 1980s New York · 1960s New York · 1970s New York · beach setting · deserted beach · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.2203
A lonely young man joins a near-future compatibility group and discovers a new social order that could remake society.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · present-day adjacent · social media age · Canada · urban contemporary · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2235
Three teens immune to a rain-born plant invasion may hold the key to stopping an eco-horror apocalypse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Canada · Salt Spring Island · Vancouver · remote island · contemporary setting · global outbreak · near-future feel · earthbound
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2241
A survivor’s revenge hunt collides with cannibal gangs, zombies, and brutal winter chaos in apocalyptic Halifax.
Why this is here
Setting labels: cold climate · frozen city · urban ruins · sewer systems · post-outbreak world · Canada · Halifax
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2291
A hybrid essay-and-novella response to Orwell that critiques 1984 and imagines a harsher, union-dominated Britain.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Britain · London · 1970s Britain · near-future · postwar Britain · alternate future · urban unrest
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2314
After a plague kills every male mammal on Earth, one young man and his monkey must survive a fractured world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · global crisis · United States · Washington DC · San Francisco · Australia · international setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2330
