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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Homeland.
Setting labels used: near-future, San Francisco, California, Burning Man, recession-era, post-terror-attack society, surveillance-heavy society
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In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · California · San Francisco Bay Area · ecological collapse · fascist theocracy · alternative future · resource-scarce world
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Distance: 0.1611
A hardboiled private eye navigates a drugged, karma-policed future where evolved animals and a murder case collide.
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Setting labels: near-future Oakland · future California · dystopian future · urban noir · socially controlled society · state surveillance · alternate future · postmodern future
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Distance: 0.1687
A bike messenger and a fired security man are drawn into a near-future California chase over high-tech glasses.
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Setting labels: near future · California · San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles · Bay Bridge community · post-earthquake · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1710
In a near-future where public gatherings are banned, two women chase music, freedom, and connection through live and virtual worlds.
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Setting labels: near-future United States · post-pandemic society · post-terror society · virtual reality society · rural isolation · underground venues · Hoodspace · corporate-dominated future · quasi-post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.1758
A gifted hacker for surveillance firms must choose between lucrative complicity and helping the dissidents her tech targets.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate world · surveillance society · post-Soviet state · United States · San Francisco Bay Area · Iraq · authoritarian regime · police state · cyberwar
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Distance: 0.1778
An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.
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Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · near-future · future past · post-plague world · ruined urban landscape · tribal society · post-collapse wilderness
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Distance: 0.1780
In a surveillance-heavy alternate California, a truth-detecting investigator probes a suspicious death—and the system he serves.
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Setting labels: near-future · alternate California · Los Angeles · dystopian society · post-apocalyptic America · surveillance state · closed society · walled state · underground archives · unknown outside world
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Distance: 0.1786
Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.
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Setting labels: near-future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space · San Francisco · California · divided nation · imaginary societies · alternate reality · future worlds · climate-changed future
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Distance: 0.1821
A wealthy American family is forced to survive after the dollar collapses and the economy unravels.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · New York City · Washington, D.C. · Paris · Nevada · economic dystopia · post-collapse society · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1840
A near-future California community and its founder are tested by collapse, extremism, and a shattered family.
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Setting labels: near future · 2030s · California · western United States · post-apocalyptic · dystopian America · rural commune · societal collapse · apocalypse aftermath · authoritarian regime
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Distance: 0.1853
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
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Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
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Distance: 0.1870
A desperate teen rents her body to survive, then wakes up trapped inside a wealthy renter’s dangerous life.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · United States · Los Angeles · Beverly Hills · ruined urban spaces · wealth gap society · biowarfare aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1873
