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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for This Is The Way The World Ends.
Setting labels used: Cold War, 1980s, post-apocalyptic, Antarctica, nuclear war, alternative reality, surreal future
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After nuclear war forces humanity underground, a crew investigates the robots fighting on the surface and discovers a disturbing truth.
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Setting labels: Cold War · post-nuclear future · underground society · radioactive wasteland · surface war zone · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1085
A survival-minded family rides out nuclear war in a bunker, then discovers a radically altered future society.
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Setting labels: Cold War · future world · post-apocalyptic world · alternate future · nuclear war era · American family home · wilderness survival
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Distance: 0.1109
A murdered masked hero pulls a retired vigilante into a paranoid investigation in a dark alternate-history superhero world.
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Setting labels: alternate history · Cold War · 1980s · New York City · nuclear tension · superhero world · dystopian atmosphere
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Distance: 0.1183
Two journalist-authors cross a post-nuclear America five years after a limited war to document what survived.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · Cold War · 1980s · post-nuclear world · war-torn country · near-future · alternate future · EMP blackout · collapsed infrastructure · United States
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Distance: 0.1237
A 27-story Philip K. Dick collection of early SF tales about warped reality, postwar dread, robots, and what makes us human.
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Setting labels: 1950s · Cold War era · post-nuclear Earth · post-apocalyptic future · radioactive wasteland · small-town America · outer space · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · pulp-era future
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Distance: 0.1421
A near-future alien invasion turns Earth into a global war zone, forcing humans and a deeply alien foe to misread each other.
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Setting labels: mid-1980s · near future · Cold War · Earth · United States · Soviet Union · space station · mothership · global setting
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Distance: 0.1444
Mad scientists and secret powers clash in an alternate Cold War of conspiracies, violence, and world-scale ambition.
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Setting labels: alternate history · cold war era · 1950s · postwar America · Soviet Union · space program · secret world · surreal reality
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Distance: 0.1482
In an alternate 1980s, retired superheroes investigate a murder as Cold War tensions and hidden conspiracies mount.
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Setting labels: alternate history · Cold War · 1980s · New York · United States · Vietnam War aftermath · nuclear war threat · alternate reality · retired hero era
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Distance: 0.1543
A defense supercomputer meant to prevent war instead claims control of humanity and discovers a rival machine.
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Setting labels: Cold War · near future · alternate future · global geopolitics · military command · high-tech bunker
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Distance: 0.1554
A psychic vampire hunter follows a secret Soviet portal into the vampires’ homeworld to stop an invasion.
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Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · Soviet Union · Russia · Urals · secret base · parallel dimension · vampire world · alternate Earth · multi-world setting
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Distance: 0.1567
A meticulously researched secret-history tale in which Oppenheimer and fellow scientists race to avert a hidden solar catastrophe.
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Setting labels: World War II · postwar United States · Los Alamos · Manhattan Project · Cold War era · historical realism · near-future apocalypse
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Distance: 0.1569
A surreal stick-figure apocalypse unfolds in fragmentary, darkly funny Post-it note scenes that mix dread, absurdity, and pathos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · end times · apocalyptic aftermath · uncertain reality · dreamlike world · surreal world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1582
