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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Skullcrack City.
Setting labels used: near future, urban setting, corporate America, banking workplace, dystopian city, surveillance state, alternative reality, cosmic horror world, techno-dystopia, dark alleys
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A betrayed heroine fights a corrupt corporation, battles trust issues, and risks everything to win back love and freedom.
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Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · corporate regime · underground prison · high-tech surveillance · Australia (source publication) · global scope · futuristic city
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Distance: 0.1109
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression
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Distance: 0.1167
In a near-future insomnia epidemic, a recruiter must confront the ethics of harvesting sleep and the cost of saving lives.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · major US cities · night worlds · dystopian future · sleep-deprived world · pandemic society · black market underworld
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Distance: 0.1192
An ex-cop junkie in a vertical cyberpunk city rescues human clones and is dragged back into his own buried past.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · city-sized mall · vertical city · cloning farm · corporate state · alternate dimension · surreal otherworld
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Distance: 0.1198
In a future where every word and gesture costs money, a fifteen-year-old’s silence sparks rebellion.
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Setting labels: futuristic America · dystopian future · highly monitored society · corporate control · legalistic state · advanced surveillance · 3D-printed city · near-future
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Distance: 0.1212
A hardboiled detective probes the murder of a gigantic elite Titan in a near-future society built on life-extending biotech.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · fictional city · urban noir · corporate dystopia · rich enclave · class-stratified society · posthuman society · cyberpunk-like setting
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Distance: 0.1217
A debut collection of darkly comic near-future stories about workers, outsiders, and survival in a collapsing America.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate present · dystopian America · run-down theme park · amusement park · workplace settings · corporate setting
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Distance: 0.1255
In a corporate dystopia, a memory seller and a law enforcer are forced together when she loses her memories.
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Setting labels: near future · futuristic city · dystopian future · corporate state · privatized society · hypercapitalist world · metro city · wilderness · no-man's-land
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Distance: 0.1288
A mistreated orphan escapes a brutal future institution and joins teens who hunt invisible life-draining parasites.
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Setting labels: future city · dystopian city · polluted future · industrial future · surveillance state · satellite-controlled city · cyberpunk city · orphanage · prison-like institution · nighttime cityscape · bleak future
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Distance: 0.1298
In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
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Distance: 0.1304
A scientist’s failed Alzheimer’s experiment creates body-swapping tech that reshapes society and exposes its dark uses.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · realistic future · Ann Arbor · Michigan · global · urban future · black market underworld · corporate future · regulated technology
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Distance: 0.1314
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1317
