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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Farnham's Freehold.
Setting labels used: Cold War, future world, post-apocalyptic world, alternate future, nuclear war era, American family home, wilderness survival
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An 11-year-old girl survives a bio-nuclear apocalypse, then seeks others like her in a depopulated world.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · depopulated America · fallout shelter · near-future · Cold War era · worldwide catastrophe · isolated survival setting
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Distance: 0.0982
After nuclear war forces humanity underground, a crew investigates the robots fighting on the surface and discovers a disturbing truth.
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Setting labels: Cold War · post-nuclear future · underground society · radioactive wasteland · surface war zone · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1052
A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.
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Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · post-apocalyptic · Antarctica · nuclear war · alternative reality · surreal future
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Distance: 0.1109
A 27-story Philip K. Dick collection of early SF tales about warped reality, postwar dread, robots, and what makes us human.
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Setting labels: 1950s · Cold War era · post-nuclear Earth · post-apocalyptic future · radioactive wasteland · small-town America · outer space · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · pulp-era future
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Distance: 0.1223
A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.
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Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1276
A telepathic dog and a teenage wastelander struggle to survive in a brutal post-nuclear future where desire and loyalty collide.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · war-torn United States · nuclear wasteland · underground civilization · surface ruins · alternate history · near future · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1284
Two journalist-authors cross a post-nuclear America five years after a limited war to document what survived.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · Cold War · 1980s · post-nuclear world · war-torn country · near-future · alternate future · EMP blackout · collapsed infrastructure · United States
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Distance: 0.1291
Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust
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Distance: 0.1298
In a woman-scarce future Alaska, one fugitive bride is matched to six husbands and a past that won’t stay buried.
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Setting labels: future world · dystopian world · post apocalyptic world · Alaska · safe haven · government compound · near future · alternate universe
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Distance: 0.1301
In a nuclear-ravaged America, survivors travel, regroup, and fight to build safety amid danger, secrets, and power struggles.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · nuclear winter · lawless roads · refugee camp · decaying cities · wasteland · our world · wartime aftermath · survival camp
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Distance: 0.1308
Secrets, alliances, and betrayals tighten the noose as the nations of an apocalyptic America move toward Armageddon.
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Setting labels: alternate history · post-Civil War America · apocalyptic world · dystopian future · multiple nations · machine city · western landscape · mythic reality
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Distance: 0.1319
A lone survivor uses a dead postman’s uniform to survive, and accidentally sparks hope of rebuilding civilization.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear war · collapsed society · wilderness travel · small settlements · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1372
