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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver.
Setting labels used: 1970s, 2016, high school, small town, middle America, analog era, nostalgic past, contemporary frame, multiple timelines
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A bullied teen in the 1970s discovers nicotine-fueled powers and a death ray, then grapples with what to do with them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · high school · suburbia · small town · city streets · United States · post-nuclear family · contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1865
A mother and teenage daughter discover a restored vintage camper that sends them into different decades and family mysteries.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · vintage camper · 1930s · 1960s · earlier twentieth century · multiple eras · contemporary frame · historical periods · American history · home town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2050
Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · teen ensemble · present day · future selves · multiple timelines
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2071
A regretful middle-aged man gets one brief chance to revisit 1986 and try to rewrite the life that followed.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1986 · 2016 · 1980s nostalgia · contemporary era · England · teen years · midlife
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2077
A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · alternate universe · multiverse · high school aftermath · young adult life · small town roots · California · parallel timeline · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2093
A telepath in middle age watches his mind-reading power fade, forcing a reckoning with loneliness, guilt, and selfhood.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1970s · 1960s · late 1960s · early 1970s · mid-century America · postwar childhood · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2106
Four teens scattered across eras must navigate a tangled time war and decide what to keep when the adventure ends.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · past present future · Cleveland · multiple eras · alternate timelines · time travel reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2125
A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · New Jersey · alternate dimension · alternate universe · past and present · high school · teen world · suburban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2181
A shy teen receives a letter from her future self and joins friends in trying to change a painful fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · teen life · present day · future timeline · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2192
Teen Dana Scully investigates strange deaths in 1979 Maryland and uncovers a supernatural conspiracy that reshapes her beliefs.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1979 · spring 1979 · 1970s · Maryland · small town · high school · new town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2199
Four paper girls land in 2016 and search for a missing friend while confronting older selves, rivals, and time-travel chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1988 · 2016 · future · time travel · alternate reality · suburban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2207
A bullied small-town teen musician chases escape and stardom while family secrets and crime pull him back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · 1984 · small town · Hawkins · high school · teen subculture · record-store world · dive bar · music scene · pre-show timeline · mid-1980s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2307
