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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time.
Setting labels used: contemporary, late 20th century, Earth, science-fictional reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
When Earth fractures after an alien war, kidnapped child strategists and a hidden power broker race for global control.
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Setting labels: Earth · near future · postwar · global politics · military world · fictionalized future history
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Distance: 0.1371
An alien hive mind hijacks a desolate drunk and tries to turn humanity into one collective consciousness.
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Setting labels: Earth · urban setting · planetary scale · intergalactic · multi-galaxy · mid-20th century · 1950s · science fictional reality
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Distance: 0.1392
A modern dark romance entwines a fractured doctor-patient past, a murder mystery, and escalating psychological danger.
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Setting labels: modern world
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Distance: 0.1439
A man who fully wakes from hypnosis sees hidden manipulators controlling society and must decide how to respond.
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Setting labels: contemporary society · urban public spaces · media-saturated world · Earth · present-day realism · alien-in-disguise reality
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Distance: 0.1574
A bartender's conversation with a troubled patron unfolds into a compact, twisty time-paradox about identity and origin.
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Setting labels: bar · time travel · mid-20th century · science fictional reality · temporal agency
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Distance: 0.1626
Asimov’s robot short stories return with new cases, new dilemmas, and fresh twists on the Three Laws of Robotics.
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Setting labels: future science fiction · robotic future · Earth · Moon · Jupiter · mid-20th century future
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Distance: 0.1630
A genetically engineered teen and her flock race to survive a shattered Earth and uncover who caused the apocalypse.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Earth · dystopian future · global disaster zone · lab-created fictional reality
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Distance: 0.1637
When benevolent aliens impose peace on Earth, humanity gains utopia—at a mysterious cost to its future.
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Setting labels: Earth · mid-20th century future · global scale · spacefaring era · postwar context · futuristic Earth
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Distance: 0.1653
A scientist uncovers a free-energy breakthrough from a parallel universe and races to stop the hidden cost.
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Setting labels: Earth · Moon · parallel universe · twenty-second century · future Earth · lunar colony · alternate physics · fictional universe
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Distance: 0.1654
Seventeen Latinx YA stories span space, magic, and myth, blending queer love, folklore, and speculative worlds.
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Setting labels: space · future · present day · contemporary setting · post-apocalyptic · urban fantasy · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1663
A massive, themed anthology of time travel stories and essays spanning classics, contemporary pieces, and many eras.
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Setting labels: past and future · across historical eras · time-displaced reality · multiple fictional worlds
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Distance: 0.1705
A burned-out comic artist is pulled into a quirky alien invasion and must help stop Earth’s destruction.
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Setting labels: modern day · Earth · city setting · apocalypse · alien invasion · contemporary reality · fictional aliens · extraterrestrial setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1705
