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Ian McEwan

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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Machines like Me.

Setting labels used: 1980s London, alternative history, parallel universe, alternate Britain, counterfactual history, technologically advanced past, Thatcher-era Britain, alternate 20th century

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Cover of Walking on Glass by Iain Banks

Walking on Glass

Iain Banks · 2012

Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.1667

Cover of Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks by Eric Saward

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Eric Saward · 1989 · Doctor Who Target Books (Numerical Order)

The Doctor is trapped in a time corridor as Daleks, Davros, and old enmities collide in a grim race for power.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2028

Cover of The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison

The Course of the Heart

M. John Harrison · 2006

Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2029

Cover of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams · 2002 · Dirk Gently

A chaotic detective mystery links ghosts, quantum weirdness, a missing cat, and time travel through one grand interconnected puzzle.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2061

Cover of La lega degli straordinari gentlemen: Century by Alan Moore

La lega degli straordinari gentlemen: Century

Alan Moore · 2013 · The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Across 1910, 1969, and 2009, the League hunts an occult apocalypse plot while time, culture, and identity unravel.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2090

Cover of A River Called Time by Courttia Newland

A River Called Time

Courttia Newland · 2021

A young man enters an elite ark-city and discovers a secret power that pulls him through parallel worlds and hidden truths.

Semantic match: ranked by setting

Distance: 0.2125