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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic, dystopian, near future, far future, space habitat, generation ship, walled society, ruined world, collapsed civilization, catastrophic future, alternate future, isolated communities
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A flood-ravaged teen is reassigned inside a rigid survival society and uncovers dangerous secrets about how it really works.
Why this is here
Setting labels: flooded future · post-apocalyptic world · walled enclave · strict society · resource-scarce settlement · climate disaster · isolated community · sector-based society · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0686
A hidden woman on a ruined Earth is rescued by an alien king seeking a mate to save his dying race.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian Earth · alien homeworld · space travel · ruined civilization · scarce women · hostile society · apocalyptic future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0749
A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.
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Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0777
A young man in a far-future post-apocalypse leaves his isolated community seeking love, truth, and sainthood.
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Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · post-collapse society · isolated communities · ruined civilization · low-tech future · tribal society · pastoral future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0782
An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · utopian · near-future · future worlds · spacefaring · virtual reality · alternative reality · Earth-bound · off-world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0805
A scribe hunts a vanished boy who can unlock lost technology, uncovering a fractured world shaped by catastrophe and secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ruined civilization · collapsed empire · wasteland · dead city · rural settlement · technology-scarce society · city ruins · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0828
A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.
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Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0839
A family enters a supposedly perfect company town where safety, privilege, and belonging come with eerie rules.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · climate collapse · post-apocalyptic · corporate town · sealed community · walled-off enclave · dying world · polluted world · suburban setting · American suburbia · nuclear threat · underground shelter
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0863
In a future with no girls for 50 years, one sheltered teen must choose between duty to humanity and forbidden love.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · tower · dome · isolated enclave · flooded world · ruined earth · real world / tower contrast · artificial environment · technological future
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Distance: 0.0863
On a polluted Earth, a government investigator on a new colony uncovers a hidden alien truth tied to his missing wife.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · Earth · off-world colony · terraforming · underground society · polluted Earth · exoplanet · space colony
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Distance: 0.0883
A scavenging teen and her robot pony race aliens and outlaws across a post-tech future Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · pre-electrical society · nomadic society · mobile caravan · ruined landscape · hot zones · technology-scarce world · mixed-tech and primitive culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0888
Exiled teen criminals are sent from a failing space colony to test whether a ruined Earth can sustain human life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space colony · spaceship society · post-apocalyptic Earth · radioactive Earth · future Earth · future dystopia · sealed habitat · outer space · futuristic society · ruined planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0897
