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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Ornamento.
Setting labels used: Colombia, unnamed city, lab setting, urban dystopia, near-future, alternate reality, slightly distopic present, class-divided city, art world, pharmaceutical milieu, decaying modernity, global south
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A resurrected rebel must uncover hidden clues, outwit a tyrannical Council, and bring freedom and shalom to her world.
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Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · global travel · Russia · Paris · contained society · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2097
In a perfection-obsessed dystopia, one compassionate mistake marks a model teen as a social outcast.
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Setting labels: dystopian society · near future · unnamed country · unnamed city · contemporary-like world · familiar setting · authoritarian state · social segregation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2131
In a controlled dystopian city, a girl numbered Eight begins to question her identity and the world that forbids it.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · controlled society · sterile world · enclosed city · training regime · dreamlike reality · overseas hierarchy
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Distance: 0.2151
A varied collection of short speculative stories, from satirical thought experiments to dark, moving tales of power, language, and perspective.
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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: 0.2151
A gonzo journalist battles a corrupt president, police violence, and censorship in a filthy future city.
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Setting labels: Futuristic city · Dystopian city · Urban setting · Political future · Retro-future · Noir cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2160
A cat-speaking boy and his lion allies flee across Europe, chase his missing parents, and outrun powerful enemies.
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Setting labels: Venice · Paris · Morocco · Gibraltar · Africa · future world · dystopian world · post-climate change world · city-state
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Distance: 0.2164
A secret affair becomes public in a strange city where adulterous couples can live openly, until paradise starts to crack.
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Setting labels: unnamed city · alternate reality · liminal space · dreamscape · faux-utopia · secret city · hotel rooms · real world · surreal city · claustrophobic setting
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Distance: 0.2197
A 28-story collection of eerie, high-concept weird fiction where ordinary worlds are warped by impossible intrusions.
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Setting labels: contemporary reality · near-future · alternate reality · urban setting · London · Europe · England · coastal setting · island setting · isolated enclave · medical setting · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2213
In a city where being remembered keeps you alive, an introverted woman must fight for attention to survive.
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Setting labels: dystopian city · tentacular city · urban sprawl · future world · public-space signage · social-media-like world · endless city
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Distance: 0.2249
In a collapsing city, an unnamed woman shelters a girl and survives by watching both the streets and a strange world beyond her walls.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed city · near future · post collapse · urban ruin · apartment block · parallel world · interior world · unnamed country
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Distance: 0.2253
A young believer is dropped into a baffling experimental city and rises through its chaos as its hidden logic unravels.
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Setting labels: artificial city · isolated city · possibly other planet · alternate reality · 20th century transplants · twentieth-century historical cross-section · surreal cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2268
In a near-future totalitarian state, multiple queer and feminist voices struggle to survive, resist, and imagine freedom.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · closed society · border regime · authoritarian state · city-state · oppressive present · alternative commune
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2275
