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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Blindness.
Setting labels used: unnamed city, unnamed country, quarantine institution, mental hospital, apocalyptic world, state of emergency
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a collapsing city, an unnamed woman shelters a girl and survives by watching both the streets and a strange world beyond her walls.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed city · near future · post collapse · urban ruin · apartment block · parallel world · interior world · unnamed country
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1333
A young woman writes from a collapsing city while scavenging to survive and searching for her missing brother.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed city · unnamed country · post-collapse urban setting · resource scarcity · harsh winter · unstable government · anonymous future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1435
When an unnamed capital’s voters cast mostly blank ballots, the government panics and hunts for conspirators.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed city · unnamed capital · unnamed country · election day · rainy day · state of emergency · state of siege · same city · post-crisis setting · near-contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1513
A cancer trial sabotage triggers a fast-spreading zombie outbreak on the first day of human testing.
Why this is here
Setting labels: research facility · hospital · single location · current time · quarantine · post-apocalyptic · apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1560
Two elderly sisters in a walled garden face upheaval when a mysterious boy breaches the boundaries of their secluded world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed place · unknown time · walled garden · isolated estate · boarded-up house · post-apocalyptic world · climate-damaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1613
A city outbreak traps multiple people inside a fast-moving infected apocalypse, forcing survival, rescue, and impossible choices.
Why this is here
Setting labels: city · quarantine zone · post apocalyptic city · during outbreak · lab · homebound lockdown · checkpoints · dead city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1684
When giant butterfly-like creatures swarm her town, an anxious teen must help her siblings and friends survive at home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: single house · school opening · societal collapse · post-apocalyptic · quarantine-like · near-present · worldwide crisis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1705
A woman stays in a coastal city as toxic algae, famine, and disease unravel life, while she clings to fragile bonds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: coastal city · port city · unnamed city · Latin American setting · apocalyptic setting · quarantine · hospitals · fog · red wind
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1738
After a family tragedy leaves a teen girl alone in an ash-covered world, she must survive grief and rediscover hope.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed town · unnamed city · country setting · post-disaster landscape · ash-covered world · lawless setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1742
A sarcastic ex-action star wakes in an asylum as zombies overrun the world, forcing him to survive and uncover the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · mental institution · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · urban survival · research lab · government research · collapsed society · contemporary earth · apocalypse onset
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1776
An unnamed narrator pursues a fragile woman through a collapsing, ice-choked world where reality keeps slipping away.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed country · frozen landscape · post-apocalyptic world · post-nuclear world · war-torn future · glacial epoch · ice age · isolated towns · global conflict · secret regime
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1785
A returning writer finds his hometown transformed by eerie apathy, hanging corpses, and a search for his missing son.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · small town · hometown · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · town under collapse · hospital · roadside crime scene
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1825
