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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Ghosts of Heaven.
Setting labels used: prehistoric era, Paleolithic era, seventeenth century, Puritan village, 1920s asylum, mental hospital, space future, spaceship, Earth-to-new-planet voyage, outer space
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Women authors reimagine Lovecraftian horror through female-centered retellings, experiments, and new mythos riffs.
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Setting labels: modern era · ancient history · Roman Britain · ancient Egypt · American South · Australia · space age · outer space · European laboratories · libraries and archives · asylums · gothic ruins
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2126
A one-way time machine exiles political prisoners to the Cambrian past, where a suspicious newcomer upends their colony.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambrian period · late Cambrian · future United States · alternate future · prison camp · penal colony · barren Earth · marine environment · one-way time travel world · authoritarian state · post-revolution future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2223
An authorized sequel sends Wells’s Time Traveller back through a shattered multiverse to rescue Weena and confront altered history.
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Setting labels: Victorian era · 1891 London · far future · prehistoric past · alternate history · multiverse · deep time · spacefaring future · distant Earth · cosmic scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2263
A rogue gambler is stranded on a backward world and must outwit slavery, zealotry, and social collapse to escape.
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Setting labels: alien planet · primitive society · technological regression · post-crash colony · tribal society · slave economy · bronze age · machine age · spacefaring future · planetary adventure
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2352
Spider-Man and Wolverine are thrown through time and forced into an odd-couple adventure full of chaos, banter, and reveals.
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Setting labels: prehistoric past · Cretaceous period · future · alternate future · time stream · Marvel Universe · middle ages · old west · galactic setting · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2371
A time-traveling patrol must protect history from meddling while solving missions across vivid, dangerous past eras.
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Setting labels: future organization · multiple historical eras · ancient history · prehistoric era · Pleistocene · classical antiquity · late 19th century · 20th century · alternate history · Earthbound
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Distance: 0.2373
A chemist is dropped onto a human alien world and must learn its ways while using modern knowledge to survive.
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Setting labels: alien planet · human colony world · preindustrial society · 17th century level technology · island society
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Distance: 0.2391
A Mars-raised human returns to Earth, where his alien worldview and powers ignite culture clash, philosophy, and controversy.
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Setting labels: Mars · Earth · near future · undisclosed future · space travel · 1960s America · counterculture era · institutional setting · hospital setting
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Distance: 0.2402
Immortal humans drift through 2,000 years of history, then face a future of utopia, space travel, and alien contact.
Why this is here
Setting labels: ancient history · modern era · far future · global settings · historical eras · human history · space travel · interstellar
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2402
A decadent immortal man at the end of time pursues a Victorian time traveler in a comic, satirical romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future Earth · end of the universe · Victorian England · prehistory · late 19th century · posthuman society · dying earth · time-slip world · pseudo-historical recreation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2407
A time-travel mission goes badly wrong, leaving Liam stranded in dinosaur territory and forcing the team to fix history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: prehistoric past · Cretaceous period · dinosaurs · future world · New York · historical time travel · alternate timeline · secret base · present day · deep time
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2411
A fractured enforcer’s mind and body are pulled across the Moon, Io, and 1920s Earth amid spiders, gang wars, and dread.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1920s · alternate history · retro-futurism · Earth · Moon · Jupiter moon · Io · Brooklyn · Red Hook · flooded ruins · haunted ruins · gothic cathedral ship · space travel · cathedral in space · lunar asylum · offworld
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2422
