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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for This is the Way the World Ends: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
Setting labels used: global scale, post-apocalyptic future, alternate future, worldwide outbreak, international setting, Siberia, United States, India, Britain, Japan, Ireland, Russia, Mongolia
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Survivor interviews reconstruct a worldwide zombie war, tracing humanity's collapse, response, and uneasy recovery.
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Setting labels: global · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic setting · worldwide outbreak · United States · China · South Africa · Israel · Japan · Russia · India · France · Antarctica · Canada · oceanic setting · underground setting
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Distance: 0.1397
Sentient bamboo on future Earth must stay hidden, then help humans survive war, robots, and a deadly plague.
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Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · global scale · Bayonne, France · Nigeria · Siberia · Spain · France
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Distance: 0.1418
An interconnected future-history of a global plague unleashed by melting permafrost, tracing grief, survival, and hope.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · Arctic Circle · Siberia · melting permafrost · global setting · future Earth · outer space
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Distance: 0.1437
After a plague kills every male mammal on Earth, one young man and his monkey must survive a fractured world.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · global crisis · United States · Washington DC · San Francisco · Australia · international setting · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1668
A grief-stricken biologist unleashes an engineered plague that kills women, forcing governments and survivors into crisis.
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Setting labels: Ireland · global crisis · near future · 1980s · Cold War era · post-apocalyptic · worldwide outbreak · Middle East · England · Libya · North Africa
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Distance: 0.1685
A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary · global · international · post-pandemic world · Arctic · Australia · United States · Berlin · virtual world · alternate reality · human genome
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Distance: 0.1688
A global ensemble of lives shifts in the silent shadow of giant alien structures that changed Earth without explaining why.
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Setting labels: near future · global setting · worldwide · China · Italy · Somalia · Arctic · Norway · Svalbard · North America · urban settings · border zones · special cultural zone · post-contact world · dystopian world
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Distance: 0.1694
A teen runaway’s strange gift draws her into a hidden war that echoes across decades, lives, and futures.
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Setting labels: England · British countryside · Cambridge · Switzerland · Iraq · Ireland · New York · Shanghai · Australia · near future · 1980s · 2043 · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · global setting
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Distance: 0.1719
After a robot war, surviving humans and machines face a darker conflict as rival AIs reshape what life can be.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · war-torn world · global scale · near future · deserted towns · scattered survivors · technological collapse · deep ocean · Alaska · Russia
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Distance: 0.1784
A scientist is pulled into a global kaiju apocalypse that wipes out civilization and forces a fight for survival and family.
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Setting labels: Iceland · Europe · Scotland · Norway · Russia · Northern Hemisphere · post-apocalyptic world · global disaster · new Ice Age · radioactive ash cloud · evolved world
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Distance: 0.1816
In a collapsing 2080, an elderly teacher joins a retrocausal mission to steal a future for humanity.
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Setting labels: Arctic Circle · Russia · 2080 · 2028 · post-collapse future · near future · global extinction crisis · single timeline
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Distance: 0.1833
A dark prequel-sequel reveals the Ronin’s lost years while introducing the next generation of turtles.
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Setting labels: New York City · Japan · Asia · Europe · global travel · post-apocalyptic · future timeline · present timeline · alternate continuity · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1834
