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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for Against the Fall of Night.
Premise labels used: last city, distant future, immortal society, curious protagonist, forbidden exploration, lost history, human stagnation, civilization decline, utopian decay, truth quest, exploration of unknown, two societies, future humanity, alien aftermath, memory loss
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In a billion-years-later domed city, a restless outsider seeks the truth beyond a stagnant, immortal society.
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Premise labels: far future humanity · last city · domed city · sealed world · curious outsider · forbidden outside · lost history · human stagnation · isolated civilization · quest for truth · post-collapse humanity
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Distance: 0.1025
In a far-future, post-technological Earth, a young scholar follows a legend of the stars and gathers unlikely companions.
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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · lost knowledge · civilizational collapse · mythic journey · humanity's heritage · search for origin
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Distance: 0.1616
In a plague-ravaged future, immune scavengers race to keep humanity alive when the alien space elevator protecting Darwin starts to fail.
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Premise labels: last city · space elevator · alien plague · immunity · resource survival · failing alien tech · mystery escalation · humanity survival
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1638
A decaying far-future city is revisited through shifting stories, where memory, technology, and reality keep breaking apart.
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Premise labels: dying world · decaying city · lost civilization · civilizational ruin · post-apocalyptic fantasy · ancient technology · fantasy city · world transformation · invasion threat · genre blending
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Distance: 0.1648
A lone explorer enters a nameless desert ruin and descends into a buried history older than humanity.
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Premise labels: lost city · ancient ruin · desert expedition · forbidden ruins · archaeological discovery · ancient civilization · subterranean exploration · forbidden knowledge · pre-human civilization
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Distance: 0.1666
A stranded detective must solve a murder in a future where a few hundred humans struggle to restart humanity after extinction.
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Premise labels: future survival · murder mystery · human remnant · civilization restart · future investigation · stasis travel · lost humanity · high-stakes survival · end-of-humanity
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Distance: 0.1688
After a toxic air catastrophe kills nearly everyone, one immune survivor uncovers hidden factions and a buried truth.
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Premise labels: last survivor · toxic air · mass extinction · immune protagonist · survival mystery · hidden society · underground civilization · truth-seeking · post-collapse world · end-of-humanity
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Distance: 0.1693
A Victorian inventor journeys to the far future and discovers a disturbing vision of humanity's fate.
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Premise labels: time travel · future exploration · far future · distant future · future Earth · dying Earth · social allegory · class divide · civilizational decline · human evolution · scientific speculation · cautionary tale
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Distance: 0.1706
An aging poet-warrior is drawn from retirement to defend a ruined future city with salvaged tech and old loyalties.
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Premise labels: dying earth · post-apocalyptic quest · salvaged technology · fallen civilization · war for a city · quest to save the realm · ancient machine threat · sword and science fantasy · scavenger culture · civilization in decline
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Distance: 0.1708
Hari Seldon’s final decades unfold as he builds psychohistory while the Galactic Empire decays around him.
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Premise labels: psychohistory · predictive science · galactic decline · civilizational collapse · saving humanity · political intrigue · succession struggle · legacy project · future planning · scientific theory
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Distance: 0.1736
A hidden human teen on an alien space station is thrust into a galaxy-spanning chase that tests intelligence, freedom, and identity.
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Premise labels: last human · hidden identity · galactic exile · alien society · bounty hunter pursuit · identity quest · human survival · lost species · find your people · cosmic power game · free will
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Distance: 0.1745
On a deadly new planet, the last human survivors race to uncover the truth behind the Grid and their own reality.
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Premise labels: last survivors · new world · survival quest · mystery revelation · civilization collapse · colony survival · planetary settlement · apocalyptic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1760
