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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Sheep Look Up.
Setting labels used: near future, future United States, global environmental crisis, urban dystopia, post-apocalyptic atmosphere, polluted earth
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
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: 0.0855
In a polluted near-future, a matched couple joins an elite healthcare program that offers longevity at a disturbing cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · polluted world · toxic environment · climate-damaged world · corporate society · private healthcare regime · domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0890
A sick girl and her mother join a wilderness experiment in a climate-ravaged future, testing survival, rules, and bonds.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate crisis · overcrowded city · polluted city · protected wilderness · nomadic camp life · wilderness reserve
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0931
A troubled waitress in a near-future city of bombs and activism is pulled toward choices between escape, resistance, and collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate present · alternate reality · post-industrial city · urban decay · war-torn America · apocalyptic atmosphere
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Distance: 0.0997
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: 0.1001
In a fractured future America, a reluctant teen is sent on a surreal cross-country mission with a talking goat.
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Setting labels: 2080s · near future · post-apocalyptic America · fractured United States · corporate states · lawless wasteland · environmental collapse · climate disaster · radioactive landscape · post-dissolution future · alternate America · tech-dystopia
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Distance: 0.1012
In a near-future extinction economy, two unlikely allies hunt a possibly intelligent fish after a cyberattack upends everything.
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Setting labels: near future · 2030s · dystopian future · post-climate-crisis · totalitarian state · floating city · toxic wasteland · oceanic setting · Europe · global
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Distance: 0.1019
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate change · corporate compound · warehouse city · company town · closed ecosystem · desert landscape · ravaged America · uninhabitable outside world · surveilled workplace · live-work community
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Distance: 0.1038
A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · alternate America · climate-affected future · surveillance state · dystopian society · utopian elements · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.1054
After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · overpopulated world · wildlife extinction · chimp reserve · hospital · school · urban civilization · conservation setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1059
In a climate-changed near future, three disparate lives collide around AI, memory implants, and a hidden struggle for power.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate-change world · flooded world · San Francisco · Los Angeles · global city network · dystopian urban future · high-tech low-life · drowned cities
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Distance: 0.1059
A family enters a supposedly perfect company town where safety, privilege, and belonging come with eerie rules.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · climate collapse · post-apocalyptic · corporate town · sealed community · walled-off enclave · dying world · polluted world · suburban setting · American suburbia · nuclear threat · underground shelter
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Distance: 0.1072
