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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Void Star.
Setting labels used: near future, post-climate-change world, flooded world, San Francisco, Los Angeles, global city network, dystopian urban future, high-tech low-life, drowned cities
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A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
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Distance: 0.0839
A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0901
A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society
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Distance: 0.0996
A hitman is forced to target a rising cyborg religion in a grim near-future city ruled by a brutal police state.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · unified world · ruined city · New York · crapsack world · post-collapse society
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Distance: 0.1011
Nineteen genre-bending stories mix queer relationships, speculative premises, humor, and political bite across many futures.
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Setting labels: near-future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space · San Francisco · California · divided nation · imaginary societies · alternate reality · future worlds · climate-changed future
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Distance: 0.1015
In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.
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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: 0.1027
In a flooded dystopian city, a courtesan faces a friend's impossible return from death and a revolt against power.
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Setting labels: far future · dystopian city · flooded city · canals · high surveillance · post-collapse society · futuristic city · lawless society
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Distance: 0.1027
A man whose dreams rewrite reality is used by an ambitious psychiatrist to try remaking the world.
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Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · Portland, Oregon · environmental collapse · climate change · alternate realities · near future · high-tech future
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Distance: 0.1047
Three teens from climate-destroyed Nubia uncover inherited powers in a divided future New York and must choose their loyalties.
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Setting labels: near-future · future New York City · flooded city · sky city · lower Manhattan · post-climate disaster · alternate future · African utopia
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Distance: 0.1052
A fragmented near-future dystopia where pollution, corruption, and disease push America toward ecological collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · global environmental crisis · urban dystopia · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · polluted earth
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Distance: 0.1059
A sprawling cyberpunk ensemble in near-future Los Angeles, where brain-linked media tech and corporate greed push reality to the brink.
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Setting labels: near future · future Los Angeles · corporate dystopia · networked society · virtual world · media-saturated world · urban future
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Distance: 0.1063
An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.
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Setting labels: near-future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · urban decay · media-saturated future · political future
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Distance: 0.1084
