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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Illusive.
Setting labels used: near future, future America, post-pandemic, dystopian society, real world, underground crime, government surveillance, urban setting, post-apocalyptic, pandemic aftermath
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In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0740
A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic setting · US setting · civil conflict · trans community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0834
A guarded security consultant follows a dead woman's cryptic trail into wildlife smuggling, paranoia, and eco-collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · contemporary world · dystopian future · climate collapse · pandemic world · surveillance state · digital society · urban thriller · international conspiracy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0939
In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.
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Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living
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Distance: 0.0961
In a post-pandemic future where touch is outlawed, a rule-following nurse and a rebel uncover dangerous secrets.
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Setting labels: post-pandemic future · alternate world · dystopian society · technologically advanced society · sterile environment · virtual reality · care facility · lab conception · controlled city
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Distance: 0.0964
A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath · corporate America · New York City · high-tech society · neo-industrial future · smog-choked city · biotech future
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Distance: 0.0980
In a near-future where public gatherings are banned, two women chase music, freedom, and connection through live and virtual worlds.
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Setting labels: near-future United States · post-pandemic society · post-terror society · virtual reality society · rural isolation · underground venues · Hoodspace · corporate-dominated future · quasi-post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.0991
A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.0992
A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting
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Distance: 0.1017
A Sleepless journalist probes his boss’s death in a near-future world where sleeplessness reshapes power, work, and memory.
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Setting labels: 2043 · Near future · New York City · Post-pandemic world · Corporate media world · Speculative future · Cyberpunk cityscape · Global pandemic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1053
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
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Distance: 0.1064
A plague-ravaged world forces two survivors into separate paths of grief, survival, and a slow-burn connection.
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Setting labels: near future · post-pandemic world · apocalyptic world · city survival · government collapse · survivor camp · military homefront · broadcast studio
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1120
