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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction!.
Setting labels used: near future, far future, underwater, deep sea, space travel, space opera, post-apocalyptic, dystopian, alternate history, steampunk, Regency-inspired, urban future, submarine setting, colonized future, off-world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A hard-SF short story collection where alien POVs, AI, faith, and bleak futures probe what makes us human.
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Setting labels: outer space · Antarctica · deep sea · undersea habitat · near future · dystopian future · alternate reality · religious future · spacefaring civilization · Dyson sphere · post-human future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1168
A queer-and-trans speculative anthology imagines futures of resistance, desire, survival, and uneasy hope.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · alternate future · near-future America · space station · spaceships · cyberpunk city · futuristic city · Appalachian forests · underwater city · high school · fictional future
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Distance: 0.1174
As Earth drowns, a selected crew undertakes a desperate starship mission to preserve humanity.
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Setting labels: near-future Earth · flooded world · space travel · long-duration voyage · planetary colonization · dystopian future · apocalyptic future · beyond Earth
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Distance: 0.1199
Six linked futures trace how genetic engineering and body modification reshape humanity, morality, and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · alternate future · our world · futuristic Earth · global society · undersea setting · asteroid belt
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Distance: 0.1220
Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future
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Distance: 0.1238
Philip K. Dick’s final collected stories volume gathers late-era SF tales of reality, faith, paranoia, and damaged futures.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian future · spacefaring setting · Earth colonies · Mars · off-world · fictional future
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Distance: 0.1242
A drafted human nurse must resist bonding with the alien warrior who’s already been linked to her by dreams.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · alien mothership · space station · futuristic setting · orbiting ship · war-torn future · alternate future · offworld captivity
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Distance: 0.1257
A salvage crewman is murdered, re-bodies, and uncovers a conspiracy tied to immortal body-swapping and AI.
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Setting labels: far future · solar system · space habitats · derelict ships · space opera setting · cyberpunk space · transhuman future
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Distance: 0.1266
A cat-loving space trader inherits a godlike seedship and uses it to solve—or worsen—problems on distant worlds.
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Setting labels: far future · interstellar · multiple planets · space travel · space opera setting · colonized worlds · ecological crisis · hostile alien life · old empire · space station
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Distance: 0.1289
A misfit girl learns she was engineered to live underwater and must cross a dangerous ocean to reach safety.
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Setting labels: futuristic Earth · undersea colony · ocean world · dystopian California · flooded coast · post-climate-change · authoritarian future · underwater setting
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Distance: 0.1302
A runaway space princess teams with a notorious outlaw to escape capture, politics, and an unwanted marriage.
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Setting labels: far future · deep space · space stations · multiple planets · interstellar travel · futuristic universe · feudal space empire · distant future Earth · spaceships · colonized galaxy
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Distance: 0.1311
An annual best-of anthology of 20 speculative stories chosen by R.F. Kuang from the previous year's SF and fantasy.
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Setting labels: near future · future world · modern day · contemporary · suburban · apocalyptic · cyberpunk · interstellar · space travel · fantasy world
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Distance: 0.1337
