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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Into the Forest.
Setting labels used: near future, Northern California, redwood forest, rural isolation, off-grid home, post-collapse world, post-electricity, forest homestead, sparsely populated, American apocalypse
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0906
A frontier investigator in a resource-rationed future must solve a murder that reaches beyond her community’s rules.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-collapse · future California · coastal frontier · isolated communities · marshland · estuary · outskirts · low-tech future · agrarian society · nomadic fringe · ruins · isolated settlement · ecological scarcity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1246
A near-future California community and its founder are tested by collapse, extremism, and a shattered family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · 2030s · California · western United States · post-apocalyptic · dystopian America · rural commune · societal collapse · apocalypse aftermath · authoritarian regime
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1372
After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1380
In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · California · San Francisco Bay Area · ecological collapse · fascist theocracy · alternative future · resource-scarce world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1402
An orphan girl in a ruined future city sets out to uncover the truth about her family and the world that survived collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future North America · mobile cities · wilderness · depleted world · high-tech remnant world · post-industrial collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1432
In a virus-ravaged near-future America, a Buddhist caretaker crosses the West with animal companions to deliver a possible cure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · American West · Colorado · California · American Midwest · road trip setting · collapsed infrastructure · lawless roads · reclaimed wilderness · dystopian future · pandemic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1433
In a ruined near-future world, two community leaders on a fortified farm must confront hidden feelings as survival grows personal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near future · rural Kentucky · self-sufficient farm · safe haven · collapsed civilization · off-grid community · same world continuity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1453
A sheltered hybrid boy leaves the woods with a dangerous guardian in a bleak post-plague world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · isolated woods · ravaged America · near future · devastated landscape · rural setting · forest cabin · post-pandemic world · American heartland
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1455
When California’s water supply suddenly fails, a teen and her family must survive a desperate scramble for water.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Southern California · California · suburban neighborhood · near future · present-day adjacent · dystopian future · apocalypse · resource-scarce world · real-world setting · urban breakdown
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1472
A future valley society is revealed through songs, stories, notes, and one woman’s life in a post-collapse world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic · Northern California · Napa Valley · San Francisco Bay area · Pacific coast · indeterminate future · Earth after collapse · low-tech future · fictional valley · archival future · recovered future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1502
When all people with Y chromosomes vanish, one grieving woman navigates a remade world, a political movement, and a baffling mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California woods · contemporary world · global setting · post-apocalyptic world · near-future world · surreal landscape · United States · worldwide crisis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1507
