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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Shadow of the Torturer.
Setting labels used: far future, dying sun, post-apocalyptic Earth, medievalized future, declining civilization, city-state, tower setting, gothic landscape, ancient ruins, feudal society, underworld-like atmosphere
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An exiled executioner continues through a far-future, myth-laced world with a mysterious relic and a story full of hidden clues.
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Setting labels: far future · dying earth · decadent civilization · post-apocalyptic world · city-state · subterranean spaces · ruined city · ancient world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0930
A torturer’s far-future journey through a dying world leads toward war, revelation, and a destiny that may reshape Urth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · dying sun · ruined civilization · medieval veneer · post-apocalyptic Earth · Urth · high-tech ruins · battlefields · wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0933
A dying telepathic ruler’s sons battle for succession in a brutal future where power, slavery, and mutation shape society.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic future · collapsed civilization · ruined cities · non-industrial society · feudal society · Earth · wilderness · mutant-infested hills
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1055
An all-star anthology of original stories honoring Jack Vance’s Dying Earth world, blending homage, wit, and weirdness.
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Setting labels: far future · dying sun · post-apocalyptic world · ancient Earth · imaginary places · shared fictional universe · decadent civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1123
When a hyper-advanced utopia collapses overnight, one smith in a surviving village becomes key to rebuilding and defending civilization.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-technological · preindustrial world · collapsed civilization · utopian future · Earth · small village · wilderness · medievalized future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1144
A decaying far-future city is revisited through shifting stories, where memory, technology, and reality keep breaking apart.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · dying Earth · post-apocalyptic · decaying city · ruined empire · ancient ruins · wasteland · blasted landscape · industrial detritus · medieval future · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1176
An alien youth on a post-human Earth quests through myth, music, and ruin to recover a lost love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · post-human Earth · ruins of civilization · alien-inhabited Earth · underworld · labyrinth · city · village · radiated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1177
Three centuries after society falls, survivors in a ruined dark age battle infection, power, and cruelty to endure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-collapse society · ruins of ancient cities · medieval conditions · dark age · forest wilderness · townships · ruined civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1209
In a brutal far-future kingdom, two mismatched fugitives flee into mutant-haunted wilderness after a mysterious infection upends their lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · totalitarian kingdom · walled city · capital city · wilderness · outlands · mutant-infested landscape · alternate future · collapsed society
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Distance: 0.1213
A far-future Earth’s last magicians and rogues scheme, quest, and betray each other beneath a dying red sun.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future Earth · dying sun · moonless sky · post-apocalyptic world · ancient ruins · decadent civilization · magic-saturated world · science and magic intertwined · rural backwaters · remote cities · other aeons · end-times setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1252
In a post-apocalyptic future, mobile cities hunt and eat smaller settlements, trapping two teens in a deadly chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · dried-out wasteland · mobile cities · traction cities · ruined landscape · European continent · London · out-county · airships · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1300
An aging Watcher crosses a far-future Earth of guilds and ruins as an expected alien invasion reshapes his life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future Earth · dying earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · ruined civilization · guild society · city-states · alien tourist destination · ancient cities renamed · time-slashed future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1301
