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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Three Moments of an Explosion.
Setting labels used: contemporary reality, near-future, alternate reality, urban setting, London, Europe, England, coastal setting, island setting, isolated enclave, medical setting, academic setting
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A varied collection of short speculative stories, from satirical thought experiments to dark, moving tales of power, language, and perspective.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternate history · Antarctica · South Pole · urban · colonial setting · other planet · alien world · intellectual and academic settings · Orsinia · contemporary world · isolated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1547
Five brilliant specialists unleash an experiment that warps reality, and must face the strange fallout years later.
Why this is here
Setting labels: British setting · contemporary setting · near future · urban present · alternate reality · haunted present · technological reality · mythic Britain · modern world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1350
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1386
A grieving man writes his life as fiction, only to find his autobiography splitting into rival realities.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · country cottage · Dream Archipelago · imagined world · alternate reality · fictional archipelago · island यात्रा · Britain · psychological interiority · contemporary-like world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1526
An underqueen fights to hold a fractured clairvoyant underworld together as a deadly detection tech closes in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · England · Manchester · Edinburgh · Britain · near-future · dystopian society · urban setting · underground world · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1540
A woman who dreams of her perfect man discovers he died a year ago—and time travel may be her only chance to change fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · London · bridge setting · dream reality · alternate reality · time travel world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1559
In a beauty-obsessed world, an STD grants perfection to those infected—until deadly consequences spark a conspiracy chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern society · contemporary setting · near-present world · pandemic setting · urban setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1643
A memory-wiped teen must survive a controlled new life while eerie flashes of her past suggest the government is lying.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian England · closed UK · future London · futuristic UK · surveillance state · school setting · hospital setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1645
A terminally ill woman becomes a TV spectacle while a reporter with camera eyes follows her, testing privacy, consent, and empathy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · future Britain · future England · medically altered society · post-disease world · media-saturated society · uncanny present-day mirror · urban and rural contrast
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1649
A teen girl’s journals reveal life as a human pet under alien colonizers and her growing resistance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future Earth · dystopian future · colonized planet · London · North London · Highbury · school setting · captivity setting · totalitarian regime · alternative Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1671
A troubled teen who sees death dates in people’s eyes is swept into a run from police after a bombing.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · England · urban London · British setting · inner-city · countryside · seaside town · contemporary setting · slightly alternate reality · post-attack
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1675
In a collapsing future London, a sheltered teen boards her father’s survival ship and questions its promised utopia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future London · dystopian London · post collapse · post apocalyptic world · ship setting · open sea · near future · alternate future · ruined city · contained community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1679
