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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.
Setting labels used: Ilium, New York, Caribbean island, dictatorship, Cold War, atomic age, postwar America, fictional island
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A writer chasing the story of Hiroshima uncovers a deadly invention and a fake religion on a Caribbean island.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Caribbean island · fictional island · banana republic · Cold War era · postwar America · Hiroshima aftermath · nuclear age · dystopian setting · alternative reality · fictional dictatorship
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1441
A meticulously researched secret-history tale in which Oppenheimer and fellow scientists race to avert a hidden solar catastrophe.
Why this is here
Setting labels: World War II · postwar United States · Los Alamos · Manhattan Project · Cold War era · historical realism · near-future apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2037
Batman and Superman meet in the 1950s, where Cold War intrigue and Lex Luthor force them into an uneasy alliance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1950s · late 1950s · Cold War · United States · Gotham City · Metropolis · Siberia · Area 51 · Caribbean island · alternate history · comic-book reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2105
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2197
A survival-minded family rides out nuclear war in a bunker, then discovers a radically altered future society.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cold War · future world · post-apocalyptic world · alternate future · nuclear war era · American family home · wilderness survival
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2295
A postwar scientist’s search for giant monsters uncovers the origins of Godzilla and Monarch.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Hiroshima · Japan · postwar era · 1940s · 1950s · 1980s · atomic age · prehistoric past · eastern Pacific · island communities · historical fiction
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2305
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As the world nears annihilation, former enemies form a fragile alliance to stop a once-ally turned destroyer.
Why this is here
Setting labels: postapocalyptic world · walled city · military state · island nation · wartime · global battlefield · fictional dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2319
A tiny Alpine duchy tries to lose a war with the U.S. for money, but an absurd chain of events changes everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cold War · 1950s · Alps · European microstate · New York City · United States · nuclear age · mid-20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2330
A retro-styled DC epic follows heroes and newcomers as the Silver Age dawns amid Cold War paranoia and a growing threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-WWII · Cold War · 1950s · early 1960s · Silver Age · mid-century America · global conflict · space age · historical-fiction overlay · alternate-history feel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2332
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2332
A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · post-apocalyptic · Antarctica · nuclear war · alternative reality · surreal future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2336
A murdered masked hero pulls a retired vigilante into a paranoid investigation in a dark alternate-history superhero world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · Cold War · 1980s · New York City · nuclear tension · superhero world · dystopian atmosphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2341
