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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Steam Pump Jump.
Setting labels used: 17th century England, historical jump, castle moat, St Mary's, time travel setting, historical mission site, pre-Industrial England
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A rule-breaking time-travel historian’s latest mistake triggers cascading consequences across past and present.
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Setting labels: time travel · historical past · modern day · St Mary's Institute · British history · 6th century Britain · Arthurian Britain · Stonehenge · post-Roman Britain · medieval Britain · historical reality with speculative elements
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Distance: 0.1855
A trainee time-police team tackles illegal temporal tourism, undercover danger, and a widening conspiracy.
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Setting labels: future · time travel setting · historical eras · 17th century London · 17th century · Versailles · Ice Age · Restoration England · future headquarters · Battersea Power Station · alternate future · contemporary future · historical timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1855
A time-traveling engineered teen races to save her dying boyfriend while Diotech hunts the secret buried in her mind.
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Setting labels: 1609 England · 2032 · future setting · historical setting · alternate future · scientific dystopia · time travel setting
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Distance: 0.2007
A restless scholar moves through Restoration-era science, politics, and intrigue as modern thought begins to take shape.
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Setting labels: late 17th century England · early 18th century · London · Cambridge · Boston · Massachusetts Bay Colony · Baroque era · Restoration England · colonial North America · Enlightenment · historical world
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Distance: 0.2075
A shipwrecked woman enters a parallel world, becomes its Empress, and reshapes it through philosophy, power, and imagination.
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Setting labels: 17th century · England · North Pole · parallel world · other world · utopian realm · archipelagic city-state · fantastical kingdom · courtly setting · early modern world · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.2128
A teen time traveler races to expose a centuries-old secret and survive a tangled final mission with her unreliable partner.
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Setting labels: London · past and present · historical periods · 18th century · time travel setting
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Distance: 0.2145
A rogue time-travel team races through Shakespearean history to stop a witch from rewriting magic, technology, and the future.
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Setting labels: Jacobean England · 1606 London · Shakespeare's theatre world · ancient Rome · Renaissance Florence · ancient Sicily · historical time travel · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.2224
A sprawling 17th-century epic of science, finance, espionage, and adventure across Europe’s shifting political landscape.
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Setting labels: 17th century Europe · early 18th century · Restoration England · late Baroque period · Royal Society · Amsterdam · Vienna · France · Holland · Boston · Ottoman Empire · colonial America · early modern Europe · real-history setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2232
A time-displaced American town helps reshape 17th-century Europe as war, diplomacy, and rescue missions collide.
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Setting labels: 17th century Europe · Thirty Years War · Baltic theater · Lübeck · London · Amsterdam · Copenhagen · Germany · alternate history world · time displacement
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Distance: 0.2268
An immortal woman and a time traveler keep finding each other across centuries, risking love, grief, and time itself.
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Setting labels: 16th-century London · 17th-century London · historical England · Venice · Woodstock 1969 · European history · future timeline · 2202 · 2203 · historical time travel · historical fantasy world · England · London · St. Paul’s Cathedral · Shakespeare’s Globe · Carnevale di Venezia · world wars · plague era · Great Fire of London
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Distance: 0.2308
A time-displaced West Virginia town navigates war, diplomacy, and state-building in 17th-century Europe.
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Setting labels: 17th century Europe · Thirty Years' War · central Europe · Germany · England · Holland · France · Amsterdam · London · historical alt-world
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Distance: 0.2331
At Louis XIV’s Versailles, a sheltered young woman tries to save a captive sea creature the king wants for immortality.
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Setting labels: seventeenth-century France · Versailles · Louis XIV court · French monarchy · royal menagerie · historical alternate world · Catholic court · French colony background
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2363
