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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Golden Apples of the Sun.
Setting labels used: near future, distant future, past, present-day America, small towns, rural America, Mars, Venus, lighthouse, spaceships
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A 22-story Bradbury collection blending sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and reflective human dramas across time and place.
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Setting labels: Mars · space travel · small town Americana · middle America · 20th century America · future · past · present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0939
A 100-story, author-selected anthology tracing Bradbury’s career across sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and nostalgic human drama.
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Setting labels: Mars · Venus · small-town America · suburbia · mid-20th century · future · post-apocalyptic · nuclear age · outer space · otherworldly
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Distance: 0.1212
A moon-obsessed teen wins a space suit, then gets swept into a far stranger adventure that tests science and nerve.
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Setting labels: near future · 1950s future · small-town America · Moon · Pluto · deep space · intergalactic · lunar base · space station
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Distance: 0.1341
Interconnected near-future stories trace AI’s spread through daily life, while a shadowy mogul links the collection together.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary · decades-spanning · alternate futures · small rural town · rural America · business world · tech industry · digital world · virtual reality · augmented reality · parallel universes · other space-times
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Distance: 0.1374
A 1970s SF collection of linked futures, from memory transfer and time travel to an unforgettable deaf-blind commune.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · solar system · Mars · Venus · Mercury · Moon · New Mexico · Southwest United States · Native American land · commune · isolated settlement · human-colonized space · alien-influenced future
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Distance: 0.1450
A telepathic explorer returns from a mind-trip to the stars changed, hunted, and carrying alien knowledge too dangerous to hide.
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Setting labels: far future · Earth-centered · small-town America · US Midwest · small-town dystopia · interstellar without starships · alternate future society
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Distance: 0.1478
The Fantastic Four hide out on a farmhouse and face four self-contained sci-fi mysteries about memory, time, and hope.
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Setting labels: small-town America · rural farmhouse · temporary home · countryside · space-time anomalies · deep space · Earth's core · time travel · ghost story atmosphere
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Distance: 0.1479
A chronological omnibus of Arthur C. Clarke’s short fiction, spanning early pulp pieces to late career SF and humor.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · space age · solar system · Earth · Moon · Mars · Venus · undersea · underworld
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Distance: 0.1486
A teen chases his missing parents through time portals that warp history, faith, and his family’s future.
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Setting labels: small-town Minnesota · rural America · future world · alternate reality · historical periods · religious community · postdigital future
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Distance: 0.1564
A doctor stranded in a death-worshipping future must survive a society that outlawed healing and time itself.
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Setting labels: future society · distant future · post-crash future · 16th century California · Mars · American West Coast
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Distance: 0.1569
A hard-SF future history of first contact, cosmic travel, and a grim answer to why the galaxy seems empty.
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Setting labels: near future · solar system · Earth · Moon · Mars · Venus · Mercury · Triton · asteroid belt · interstellar space · galaxy-spanning · alternate universe · future history · cyclical cosmos
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Distance: 0.1571
A genetically engineered bounty hunter is pulled into a violent, politically charged hunt for another rogue variant.
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Setting labels: near future · 22nd century · Mars colony · Earth · fragmented America · post-secession America · dystopian future · space colonization · politically fractured world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1585
