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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Beauty, Vol. 1.
Setting labels used: modern society, contemporary setting, near-present world, pandemic setting, urban setting, speculative reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A detective questions a murder suspect whose confession points to a far stranger explanation than a simple killing.
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Setting labels: modern day · contemporary · pandemic-era · internet age · connected web · real-world contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1104
A trans woman’s personal vendetta collides with a hormone-crisis future where gender becomes a choice, a weapon, and a reckoning.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic setting · US setting · civil conflict · trans community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1150
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1161
A teen illusionist thief joins superpowered criminals on a dangerous hunt for the vaccine formula that made them outlaws.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future America · post-pandemic · dystopian society · real world · underground crime · government surveillance · urban setting · post-apocalyptic · pandemic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1179
A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.
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Setting labels: contemporary society · urban public spaces · media-saturated world · Earth · present-day realism · alien-in-disguise reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1179
In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1216
A journalist records survivor interviews as dragons erupt worldwide, chasing the truth, her missing son, and a way to stop them.
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Setting labels: modern day · global setting · post-apocalyptic world · Earth · military crisis · urban destruction · widespread collapse · modern society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1221
An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.
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Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1225
In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.
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Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1282
In a post-pandemic future where touch is outlawed, a rule-following nurse and a rebel uncover dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-pandemic future · alternate world · dystopian society · technologically advanced society · sterile environment · virtual reality · care facility · lab conception · controlled city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1282
A Sleepless journalist probes his boss’s death in a near-future world where sleeplessness reshapes power, work, and memory.
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Setting labels: 2043 · Near future · New York City · Post-pandemic world · Corporate media world · Speculative future · Cyberpunk cityscape · Global pandemic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1290
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1297
