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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare.
Setting labels used: present day, historical past, time travel, Limbo, afterlife-adjacent, multiple eras, 1920s Chicago, Jamestown, World's Fair, 1960s
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A time-shifted novella follows Kiernan as he searches for a vanished Kate and uncovers hidden truths in the timeline.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate timeline · historical setting · Chicago · World's Fair Hotel · subway · time travel world · 1900s · future timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1721
A teen time traveler races to recover keys across shifting timelines while family, romance, and history collide.
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Setting labels: contemporary · historical periods · alternate timeline · time travel world · United States · Georgia · Chicago · school setting · past and present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1833
Four women invent time travel, then a future murder and a buried past force their world to confront its rules.
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Setting labels: 1960s · 2010s · alternate history · time travel society · regulated time-travel industry · present day · future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2044
Frozen WWII hero Captain America wakes in the 21st century and must decide where he belongs.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · 1940s · 21st century · modern America · New York City · suspended animation · time travel · alternate continuity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2068
Four teens scattered across eras must navigate a tangled time war and decide what to keep when the adventure ends.
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Setting labels: 1980s · past present future · Cleveland · multiple eras · alternate timelines · time travel reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2100
A survivor hunts a time-traveling serial killer who stalks women across decades from a mysterious Chicago house.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · Depression era · 1930s · 1980s · 1990s · 20th century · historical Chicago · alternate time access · magical house · urban decay
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2112
A 19th-century local working a future-run time-tourism city uncovers smuggling, secrets, and a risky cross-time romance.
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Setting labels: near future · late 19th century · 1870s · post-Civil War America · Ohio · Illinois · San Francisco · alternate history · parallel universe · multiverse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2118
Framed as public enemies, magic-powered fugitives race to clear their names while a world-ending threat closes in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · 1930s America · early 1930s · post-WWI world · magic-enabled reality · urban setting · global setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2124
On the run from future killers, the TimeRiders flee to Victorian London and uncover game-changing truths about themselves.
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Setting labels: Victorian London · 1888 · New York · Boston · future · past · present · alternate history · time travel setting · historical setting
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Distance: 0.2136
A teen intern in Hell steals a time device to undo his death, but his friends and the paradoxes of time intervene.
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Setting labels: Hell · Underworld · afterlife · working Hell · bureaucratic afterlife · modernized Hell · historical time periods · 17th century London · 1960s San Francisco · Viking age · modern New York · time travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2145
Newly graduated Time Police officers face a dangerous timeline conspiracy, family loyalties, and unexpected romance.
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Setting labels: time travel · alternate history · historical periods · 1902 Paris · ancient Athens · late twentieth century · timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2149
An undead 17-year-old gangster narrates his long, grisly journey through American history, hunting for meaning and redemption.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 19th century · 1896 · 20th century · American history · Chicago · Lake Michigan · World War I · Depression-era New York City · Hollywood · traveling medicine show · trench warfare · alternate history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2153
