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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Don't Turn Around.
Setting labels used: Boston, warehouse, off the grid, urban contemporary, online spaces
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An anxious app creator and a singer-songwriter test whether AI can measure love before it starts to take over their lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · contemporary setting · digital age · AI-driven world · online dating culture · workplace tech
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2086
A reporter investigates a string of murders and uncovers a terrifying secret behind lifelike AI companions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Boston · Chicago · contemporary · near-future · futuristic · tech industry · newsroom · murder scene · wealthy households · high-tech world · real-world plausibility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2095
In a near-future New York, a dictionary editor’s disappearance coincides with a language virus and a fight over words.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · New York City · alternate present · library spaces · dictionary office · subterranean spaces · digital future · post-print world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2113
An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · urban decay · media-saturated future · political future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2115
A future New York detective hunts killers using online romance, rare drugs, and a deadly dating game.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic New York · near-future · 2059 · cyberspace · online chatrooms · urban police setting · household setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2168
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: 0.2210
A woman everyone forgets becomes a thief and gets pulled into a battle against a manipulative self-optimization app.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · global · international · urban · digital society · technologically mediated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2223
A group of roommates becomes entangled with a forbidden dark-web game that exposes trauma, desire, and violence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Barcelona · deep web · online space · shared apartment · contemporary · digital culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2238
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: 0.2238
A tech worker uses alternate-reality software to explore a different love choice, then gets trapped between two lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Boston · tech company · office setting · corporate setting · contemporary setting · alternate universe · parallel reality · quantum simulation · virtual reality · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2256
A poetry collection uses cyborgs and Turing tests to probe queer Asian American identity, language, and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · technological world · violent world · cyborg reality · liminal space · digital space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2265
An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2274
