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Jean Hegland

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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

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Cover of California by Edan Lepucki

California

Edan Lepucki · 2014

In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.

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Distance: 0.0906

Cover of The Wild Dead by Carrie Vaughn

The Wild Dead

Carrie Vaughn · 2018 · The Bannerless Saga

A frontier investigator in a resource-rationed future must solve a murder that reaches beyond her community’s rules.

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Distance: 0.1246

Cover of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler · 1998 · Earthseed

A near-future California community and its founder are tested by collapse, extremism, and a shattered family.

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Distance: 0.1372

Cover of The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele

The Lightest Object in the Universe

Kimi Eisele · 2019

After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.

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Distance: 0.1380

Cover of The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Starhawk · 1993 · Maya Greenwood

In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.

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Distance: 0.1402

Cover of The Way by Cary Groner

The Way

Cary Groner · 2024

In a virus-ravaged near-future America, a Buddhist caretaker crosses the West with animal companions to deliver a possible cure.

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Distance: 0.1433

Cover of Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods by Jeff Lemire

Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods

Jeff Lemire · 2010 · Sweet Tooth

A sheltered hybrid boy leaves the woods with a dangerous guardian in a bleak post-plague world.

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Distance: 0.1455

Cover of Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

Always Coming Home

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2001 · Library of America

A future valley society is revealed through songs, stories, notes, and one woman’s life in a post-collapse world.

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Distance: 0.1502