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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Beguilement.
Setting labels used: alternate history, frontier setting, rural society, pastoral setting, imaginary places, pre-industrial, nomadic culture
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A schoolteacher turned outlaw and a sentient gun uncover the truth behind a frontier world locked in endless war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: frontier town · alternate history · civil-war analogue · multiverse · parallel worlds · desert setting · industrializing society · low-tech society · post-collapse world · far-future setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1439
A repaired robot is sent to work on a farm, where homesickness sparks an escape plan back to her island family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: farm · remote island · civilization · city · rural setting · future earth · animal world · human society · contested environment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1482
A chronological graphic anthology of zombie outbreaks across history, told as recorded incidents and survival accounts.
Why this is here
Setting labels: historical setting · global setting · prehistoric · ancient world · modern era · alternate history · near-present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1490
A stubborn human and a grumpy alien warrior repair a farm, and slowly each other, in a sweet steamy sci-fi romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: farm setting · rural setting · small community · frontier feel · earth-like planet · post-war society · coexistence
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1617
A mage-healer couple travels home through prejudice and danger while trying to build a life that unites two cultures.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · frontier world · imaginary places · alternate America · western frontier · pastoral world · post-apocalyptic elements · road travel setting · Lakewalker camp
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1618
In a far-future abandoned Earth, humans and robots evolve apart while a return from the stars threatens everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · rural setting · pastoral setting · spacefaring future · tribal setting · monastic setting · alien encounter setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1631
A young Saudi man is pulled into a tangled mystery where history, science, faith, and hidden identities collide across time.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · historical past · medieval setting · mongol era · cross-temporal setting · real world · alternate world · parallel worlds · Middle East
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1638
In a time-warped rural manor, a household built on polyamory and duty is disrupted by visitors, gods, and shifting loyalties.
Why this is here
Setting labels: farming village · manor house · quasi-medieval · pre-industrial · alternate world · flat world · east-west gradient · time varies by location · magic varies by location · localized religion · small rural community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1645
A haunted investigator escorts a murder suspect through a tense land of gods, spirits, politics, and forbidden magic.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate medieval world · different country · new region · prequel timeline · earlier era · preindustrial setting · quasi-medieval politics · forest ritual setting · borderland setting · old religion/new religion conflict
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1662
A young Maker faces a life-altering trial while his brother’s path abroad sharpens a sibling rivalry in alternate America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate history · alternate America · 19th century · early 1800s · rural America · frontier · North America · Europe · France · England
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1675
A young runner in a bronze-age human hold must help save her world from the demons stalking its mountains.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alien planet · medieval society · bronze age · pre-industrial world · mountain strongholds · isolated keeps · feudal society · post-apocalyptic world · fantasy-like setting · rural/tribal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1703
Two cavemen are swept into a time-travel showdown with a future corporation and must learn kung fu to save their home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: prehistoric past · future setting · time travel setting · fictionalized prehistory · alternate history · small village · corporate future · ancient world · science fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1708
