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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Wild Seed.

Setting labels used: West Africa, Africa to the New World, colonial America, colonial New York, New York, New Orleans, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, historical fantasy, far past

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.

Cover of The Vorrh by Brian Catling

The Vorrh

Brian Catling · 2012 · The Vorrh Trilogy

A colonial-era expedition, rival forces, and strange figures orbit a sentient forest that bends memory, time, and identity.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1726

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Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu · 2023 · University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series

A Zimbabwe-centered short story collection where Black women, folklore, and speculative forms confront power, memory, and survival.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1816

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Time Quake

Linda Buckley-Archer · 2009 · The Gideon Trilogy

A time-traveling trio must stop a power-hungry enemy from rewriting the American Revolution and unraveling reality.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1948

Cover of The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

The Confusion

Neal Stephenson · 2005 · The Baroque Cycle 3-volume

Two interwoven 17th-century adventures span courts, oceans, science, and money as lovers, rogues, and thinkers race through upheaval.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1974

Cover of Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler

Seed to Harvest

Octavia E. Butler · 2007 · Patternist

Four linked Butler novels trace telepathy, mutation, and power struggles across centuries in a bleak, visionary saga.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1982

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Red Prophet

Orson Scott Card · 1992 · Tales of Alvin Maker

An alternate-history frontier tale where a gifted boy enters Native-led संघर्ष to stop war, empire, and land destruction.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2004

Cover of Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs

Cities of the Red Night

William S. Burroughs · 1982 · The Red Night Trilogy

A virus-ridden, time-slipping Burroughs novel entwines pirate utopia and a hardboiled missing-person case.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2102

Cover of Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Passenger

Alexandra Bracken · 2016 · Passenger

A violin prodigy is pulled into a time-travel quest across centuries, hunted for a hidden object and a way home.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2114

Cover of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James · 2020 · The Dark Star Trilogy

A mercenary hunter with a supernatural nose joins a dangerous search for a missing child across a mythic Africa.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2125

Cover of The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs

The Place of Dead Roads

William S. Burroughs · 2001 · The Red Night Trilogy

A nonlinear cowboy sci-fi odyssey follows a gay gunslinger outlaw through violence, rebellion, and cosmic escape routes.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2125