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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Mad Scientist's Daughter.
Setting labels used: near future, post-apocalyptic, post-disaster, dystopian future, alternate future, climate-changed world, small-town America, isolated house, moon base, robots in daily life
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An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.
Why this is here
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: 0.1105
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1192
Early Judge Dredd adventures, collected in order, mix short sci-fi crime tales with dark satire in Mega-City One.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · post-apocalyptic future · mega-city · urban dystopia · space colony · moonbase · North American setting · totalitarian society · automated society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0993
A themed anthology of short fiction imagining robot uprisings, AI rebellion, and the human cost of future tech gone wrong.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · post-robot rebellion · technological future · household technology · AI-mediated world · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0994
A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1003
A queer speculative story collection uses body horror, myth, and dystopia to explore transness, survival, and belonging.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · mid-apocalyptic · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · moon colony · alternative reality · contemporary setting · city under climate threat · church shelter · science fictional world · fantastical world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1021
A secret sleeper program races to save a select few from an extinction-level comet and wakes into a changed world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Earth · underground shelters · secret facility · post-apocalyptic world · radiation crisis · dystopian future · apocalyptic Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1034
In a woman-scarce future Alaska, one fugitive bride is matched to six husbands and a past that won’t stay buried.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future world · dystopian world · post apocalyptic world · Alaska · safe haven · government compound · near future · alternate universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1063
In a genetically engineered near-future America, rival castes fight over work, power, and who should control advanced technology.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future America · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · orbital habitat · island retreat · near-future · technologically degraded society · genetically altered world · class-divided society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1065
A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic future · utopian future · dystopian future · deep time · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1083
In a dying future, a kidnapped teen bride plots escape from a gilded prison built on genetic failure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic America · isolated mansion · gilded cage · collapsed society · surveillance house · near-future · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1087
After a tech-company plane crash, survivors find a high-tech island house whose secrets turn survival into paranoia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · deserted island · tropical island · isolated mansion · smart home · techno-dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1089
