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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for A Boy and His Dog.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, war-torn United States, nuclear wasteland, underground civilization, surface ruins, alternate history, near future, dystopian future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust
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Distance: 0.0822
A snarky mercenary and an energy-wielding arcanist team up in alien-ravaged Earth to recover what they’ve lost.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · alien-occupied world · dystopian future · apocalyptic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0844
A gruff food-truck cook and a mysterious hungry girl outrun soldiers across a post-apocalyptic desert.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · desert wasteland · dystopian future · war-torn setting · scarce water · ruined civilization · roadside travel · futuristic wasteland
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Distance: 0.0849
An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · radiated wasteland · underground community · ruined city · toxic environment · nuclear aftermath · futuristic dystopia
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Distance: 0.0858
Five survivors are trapped by a sentient supercomputer that keeps them alive for endless, personalized torment.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground refuge · future world · war-damaged civilization · technological hellscape · near-immortal captivity · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0933
A sheltered teen leaves his bunker after disaster and must survive a monster-haunted wasteland and a spreading virus.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground bunker · wasteland · ruined earth · desolate landscape · surface survival · near-future · earth after impact
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0940
A themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories exploring many versions of life after collapse, from bleak to hopeful.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · far future · ruins · wasteland · collapsed civilization · deserted civilization · quarantined colony · tunnels · outposts
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1002
In a dystopian underground city, one girl must survive a ritual that decides who gets magic, love, and exile.
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Setting labels: underground city · post-apocalyptic · surface wasteland · toxic surface · dystopian world · ancient war backdrop
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1028
Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)
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Distance: 0.1039
A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-nuclear war · radioactive world · futuristic city · future America · future New York · dystopian world · tech-dominated society · fringe cult · fringe society · corporate future · neon city · wasteland · robotic body
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1042
After escaping prison, Khalani and her crew cross a deadly wasteland toward another city, where danger and desire collide.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · underground prison · underground city · desert traversal · surface world · corrupt city · radiation fallout · nuclear aftermath · wasteland · dystopian society
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Distance: 0.1046
In a poisoned future Earth, three survivors leave an underground refuge on a surface mission that exposes buried sins.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground enclave · surface wasteland · Sweden · Scandinavia · alternate history · dystopian future · institutional interior · liminal spaces · ruins and ash · dead world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1046
