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Setting labels used: late Victorian, Earth, solar system, outer space, cosmic scale
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An authorized sequel sends Wells’s Time Traveller back through a shattered multiverse to rescue Weena and confront altered history.
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Setting labels: Victorian era · 1891 London · far future · prehistoric past · alternate history · multiverse · deep time · spacefaring future · distant Earth · cosmic scale
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Distance: 0.1273
Two gigantic extraterrestrial travelers visit Earth and use the encounter to satirize human pride, knowledge, and belief.
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Setting labels: outer space · Earth · Sirius · Saturn · solar system · 18th century · cosmic reality
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Distance: 0.1519
A new wormhole-based camera ends privacy on Earth, then opens history itself to scrutiny and upheaval.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · global society · quantum physics · time travel · cosmic scale · historical past
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Distance: 0.1560
A set of cosmic fables where an immortal witness turns scientific origins into whimsical, human-scale stories.
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Setting labels: outer space · cosmic prehistory · prehuman earth · moon · sun and stars · galactic scale · deep time · ancient earth · scientific imaginary · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1615
A nameless man’s mind leaves Earth to explore the universe, meeting alien civilizations and a possible creator.
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Setting labels: outer space · galactic scale · multiverse · far future · cosmic time
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Distance: 0.1669
A guilt-haunted brother searches for his missing sister as their trauma collides with a cosmic hunt beyond time.
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Setting labels: solar system · Jupiter · outer space · mountains · contemporary · cosmic scale · outside time
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Distance: 0.1708
A decadent immortal man at the end of time pursues a Victorian time traveler in a comic, satirical romance.
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Setting labels: far future Earth · end of the universe · Victorian England · prehistory · late 19th century · posthuman society · dying earth · time-slip world · pseudo-historical recreation
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Distance: 0.1712
A teen who feels reality’s glitches is pulled into an alien time-travel mission to save Earth from collapse.
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Setting labels: Earth · historical settings · past eras · contemporary Earth · alien world
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Distance: 0.1714
Two aliens debate a shocking discovery about Earth: the intelligent species there is made entirely of meat.
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Setting labels: outer space · the universe · Earth · far-future implied · alien civilization · first-contact setting · cosmic scale
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Distance: 0.1750
When Earth leaves a brain-dampening field, everyone and every animal becomes much smarter—and society starts to unravel.
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Setting labels: Earth · global scale · cosmic field · galactic anomaly · post-change world · rural and urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1770
Scientists race to understand a mysterious cloud heading for the Sun before its arrival transforms life on Earth.
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Setting labels: Earth · Solar System · mid-20th century future · observatories · academic setting
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Distance: 0.1784
Facing a 400-year alien invasion, humanity hides its plans in human minds alone and bets civilization on secret strategists.
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Setting labels: Earth · deep space · future Earth · far future · crisis era · cosmic scale · global setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1804
