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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.
Setting labels used: near-future, future America, 1950s America, Cold War era, spacefaring future, dystopian future, alternate reality, post-apocalyptic future, authoritarian society
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Early Philip K. Dick stories of warped reality, war, precognition, and mind-bending ideas in a classic SF collection.
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Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · spacefaring future · near future · dystopian future · alternate reality · interplanetary setting · Cold War era future · America · technological society · classic SF future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0985
A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic future · utopian future · dystopian future · deep time · Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0994
A 27-story Philip K. Dick collection of early SF tales about warped reality, postwar dread, robots, and what makes us human.
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Setting labels: 1950s · Cold War era · post-nuclear Earth · post-apocalyptic future · radioactive wasteland · small-town America · outer space · interplanetary travel · alternate realities · pulp-era future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1057
In a future where memories are bought, edited, and banned, a son risks everything to share his mother’s forbidden past.
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Setting labels: future China · authoritarian state · dystopian future · postwar future · global superpower · occupied America · near future · shared-memory society · surveilled society · alternate history · global war aftermath · reeducation state
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Distance: 0.1102
Twin fugitives return from Canada to challenge a brutal one-child regime and rally a growing rebellion.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · future United States · Texas · Canada · Dallas · dystopian future · authoritarian state · near-future America
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Distance: 0.1107
Teens race to expose a hidden plan and stop unwinding before a violent uprising and power grab consume the country.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · United States · political dystopia · corporate-controlled society · post-crisis society · militarized state
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Distance: 0.1119
An astronaut is remade into a cyborg to survive Mars, while the project’s human, political, and hidden costs mount.
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Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · Cold War era · nuclear brinkmanship · post-crisis world · United States · Oklahoma · space program · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1128
A WWI veteran wakes 500 years in the future and joins a resistance fighting to reclaim occupied America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 25th century · far future · Earth-bound future · occupied America · dystopian future · postwar future · alternative future · military future
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Distance: 0.1139
In a segregated near-future, a Black woman at a time-travel company uncovers a history-warping secret.
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Setting labels: near future · 2030 · alternate history · dystopian future · United States · segregated society · time travel present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1142
In a genetically engineered near-future America, rival castes fight over work, power, and who should control advanced technology.
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Setting labels: future America · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · orbital habitat · island retreat · near-future · technologically degraded society · genetically altered world · class-divided society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1156
A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · alternate America · climate-affected future · surveillance state · dystopian society · utopian elements · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1166
A varied anthology of Vonnegut short fiction blending satire, dystopia, romance, war, and strange speculative ideas.
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Setting labels: midcentury America · postwar era · future dystopia · Cold War era · small-town settings · overcrowded future · wartime settings
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1174
