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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Parable of the Talents.
Setting labels used: near future, 2030s, California, western United States, post-apocalyptic, dystopian America, rural commune, societal collapse, apocalypse aftermath, authoritarian regime
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A family enforcer confronts terror and identity doubts while a displaced waste family races toward a life-changing selection.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic USA · western United States · Los Angeles · Denver · Montana · Wyoming · feudal society · corporate rule · resource scarcity · ruined landscape
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Distance: 0.0752
A scientist and a teen genius fight a technocratic regime that rules a shattered world with unbreakable force-field weapons.
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Setting labels: post apocalyptic Earth · California · near future · post war society · dystopian future · collapsed civilization · regressed technology · Cold War era future · authoritarian state · semi anarchic society
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Distance: 0.0898
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0967
In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · California · San Francisco Bay Area · ecological collapse · fascist theocracy · alternative future · resource-scarce world
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Distance: 0.1022
In a virus-ravaged near-future America, a Buddhist caretaker crosses the West with animal companions to deliver a possible cure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · American West · Colorado · California · American Midwest · road trip setting · collapsed infrastructure · lawless roads · reclaimed wilderness · dystopian future · pandemic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1036
A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.
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Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1056
In a collapsing near-future America, a flashback-addicted ex-cop is hired to reopen a long-unsolved murder.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · collapsed America · Denver · Los Angeles · Japanese-dominated world order · global caliphate · alternative future
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Distance: 0.1085
After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age
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Distance: 0.1094
In a surveillance-heavy alternate California, a truth-detecting investigator probes a suspicious death—and the system he serves.
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Setting labels: near-future · alternate California · Los Angeles · dystopian society · post-apocalyptic America · surveillance state · closed society · walled state · underground archives · unknown outside world
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Distance: 0.1126
In post-nuclear Los Angeles, a former cult deprogrammer-musician must infiltrate a sinister sect to rescue his lost love.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic California · nuclear-ravaged landscape · future Los Angeles · twenty-second century · dystopian future · ruined civilization · semi-medieval technology · radiation-scarred wasteland · neo-Californian civilization
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Distance: 0.1140
In a climate-ravaged near future, a storm-chasing crew hunts a legendary super-tornado before it hits.
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Setting labels: near future · Texas · Oklahoma · Mexico · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · megadrought · climate-ravaged · American heartland · collapsed government · uninhabitable land · disaster zone · virtual reality · technological future
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Distance: 0.1146
In a bee-less future, a beekeeper’s daughter returns home for answers and finds a fragile new family, a secret, and hope.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · rural farm · countryside · farmhouse · agricultural collapse · food scarcity · state care system · juvenile care system · prison state · environmental collapse
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Distance: 0.1198
