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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Time Was.
Setting labels used: Oregon, rural cabin, remote cabin, wooded area, Pacific Northwest, 1980s, 20th century, 23rd century, future society, isolated setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A time-traveling man arrives to retrieve his brother, but snowbound chemistry with a fiery woman reroutes his plans.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · 20th century · future · time displacement · winter cabin · remote cabin · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · snowstorm · contemporary Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1496
Two future brothers land in the past and fall for two sisters while trying to decide whether to return home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future to present · 20th century · 23rd century · rural cabin · remote mountains · isolated house · contemporary America · science fictional future · family cabin
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2074
A lonely boy hires a questionable wizard to help find his kidnapped parents, and the quest gets stranger from there.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oregon · Portland, Oregon · forest cabin · isolated cabin · wilderness · small town · school setting · contemporary setting · real-world setting · middle grade reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2108
After a deadly pandemic, an immune survivor leads a fragile group toward safety while preppers, danger, and loss close in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Washington state · Seattle · cabin in the woods · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · depopulated world · collapsed civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2159
After a global tech collapse, survivors in the Pacific Northwest rebuild through survival skills, clans, and new power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Idaho · contemporary world · post-apocalyptic world · technologically regressed world · medieval-like society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2162
A stranded alien posing as a small-town doctor gets drawn into murders, secrets, and human community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Pacific Northwest · Washington State · Patience · cabin in woods · present day · Earth · human society · rural Americana
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2240
A teen wakes trapped in a mysterious dome with his family, and a later-arriving family turns survival into conflict.
Why this is here
Setting labels: cabin · woods · farm · domed enclosure · isolated rural setting · contained environment · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2244
In post-tech Oregon, rival factions edge toward war as hostage leverage, truce talks, and battlefield choices decide the region’s future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: western Oregon · Willamette Valley · Pacific Northwest · post-collapse world · post-technological society · neo-feudal society · alternate reality · years after the Change · rural survival
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2316
In a post-collapse 2041, a teen must cross borders to rescue her grandparents and find a way home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · 2041 · post-collapse world · Pacific Northwest · Canada · United States · British Columbia · Portland · Portland suburbs · abandoned cities · isolated island · agrarian community · rural setting · urban decay · border crossing · post-oil society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2360
A family’s cabin getaway turns deadly when a long-buried legend and a monstrous assailant close in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: remote cabin · cabin in the woods · isolated wilderness · lake community · western Canada · Pacific Northwest · abandoned cabin · forest setting · nighttime siege
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2400
Two heirs split a fortune and build rival cities in America—one utopian, one militarized—until their visions collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 19th century · Pacific Northwest · Oregon · United States · industrial city · planned city · model community · fictional near-future · scientific conference · transnational setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2401
A glacier expedition in a cursed wilderness unravels into vanishing bodies, warped time, and a second investigation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: wilderness · forest · mountain · glacier · Pacific Northwest · western United States · remote wilderness · isolated cabin · academic field site · liminal space · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2411
