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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Core of the Sun.
Setting labels used: alternate present, dystopian Finland, eusistocracy, alternative history, highly controlled society, closed borders, low-tech society
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In an alternate-racial order, old allies and a new generation are swept into murder, kidnapping, and political crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · dystopian society · racially divided society · political present · contemporary parallels
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1288
In a water-starved future, a tea apprentice inherits a dangerous secret that could save her village or doom her.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · climate-changed world · Scandinavia · Finland · border province · occupied territory · militarized state · desertified landscape · future Europe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1322
In a near-future totalitarian state, multiple queer and feminist voices struggle to survive, resist, and imagine freedom.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · closed society · border regime · authoritarian state · city-state · oppressive present · alternative commune
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1370
In a near-future Sweden, a health party turns anti-obesity policy into a terrifying system of control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Sweden · near future · contemporary future · dystopian state · totalitarian society
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Distance: 0.1406
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
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Distance: 0.1411
In a society where a lottery decides motherhood or freedom, a blue-ticket woman risks everything to claim a forbidden future.
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Setting labels: dystopian society · near future · unnamed country · border crossing · urban-rural journey · authoritarian regime · controlled reproduction
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Distance: 0.1444
An alternate-history war story where a child holds launch codes in her body, forcing leaders to confront the cost of power.
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Setting labels: alternate history · war-torn nation · nuclear age · near-future feel · dystopian society · political court
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Distance: 0.1453
A memory-wiped former rebel races to reunite his old crew and expose a reality-controlled dystopia.
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Setting labels: alternate present · dystopian future · whitewashed reality · controlled society · gang-ridden world · urban wasteland · retro-futurism · technicolor world
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Distance: 0.1483
A faithful graphic retelling of Orwell’s dystopia, following one man’s forbidden awakening under total surveillance.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · London · Oceania · alternate future · war state · controlled society
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Distance: 0.1533
A teenage Dream Traveler labeled defective uncovers a hidden conspiracy in her seemingly perfect, tightly controlled town.
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Setting labels: dystopian society · isolated community · controlled town · alternate reality · dream travel world
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Distance: 0.1538
In a reversed-race society, a forbidden friendship between two teens turns into a dangerous love story.
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Setting labels: alternate history · dystopian society · near future · British society · segregated school · racially divided world · reversed power structure · post-slavery world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1550
In a tightly controlled future, one woman confronts a system that decides who may bear children—and who may only borrow them.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · alternate future · not-so-distant future · bureaucratic society · government-regulated society · library setting · patriarchal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1556
