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Setting labels used: near-future, modern world, power grid collapse, societal collapse, real-world scenario
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When a brain-linked social network collapses, two survivors must find their missing daughter in a world gone offline.
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Setting labels: near future · post-collapse world · technology-saturated society · isolated survivor camp · ravaged landscape · lawless world · no-technology environment · future Earth
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Distance: 0.1466
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
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Distance: 0.1531
A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.
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Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future
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Distance: 0.1556
When a power-grid genius faces a biblical-apocalypse fanatic, a nationwide blackout becomes a race to stop disaster.
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Setting labels: present day · United States · global crisis · grid-dependent society · power outage · tech-dependent world · government/military setting · biblical apocalypse
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Distance: 0.1594
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
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Distance: 0.1628
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: 0.1637
In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.
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Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath
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Distance: 0.1641
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: 0.1641
In a ruined future, a world designer investigates deadly glitches inside the virtual realities everyone depends on.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate collapse · virtual reality · dystopian future · capsule life · uninhabitable Earth · computer-simulated worlds · digital worldscape · alternative realities · futuristic society
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Distance: 0.1659
A guarded security consultant follows a dead woman's cryptic trail into wildlife smuggling, paranoia, and eco-collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · contemporary world · dystopian future · climate collapse · pandemic world · surveillance state · digital society · urban thriller · international conspiracy
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Distance: 0.1661
A terminally ill man time-travels into a subterranean future utopia and is drawn into a murder mystery and moral reckoning.
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Setting labels: far future · underground world · post-scarcity · utopia-dystopia · Earth future · subterranean society · distant future · advanced technology · climate change aftermath · post-catastrophe
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Distance: 0.1663
A protocol-bound robot valet kills his master and wanders a collapsed future world searching for purpose.
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Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · post-human world · robot-run society · collapsed civilization · manor house · decaying infrastructure
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1666
