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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
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Three apparently separate lives in London and a surreal castle edge toward a strange, unsettling convergence.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s London · London · contemporary city · surreal castle · alternate reality · fantasy realm · space-time oddity · prison setting · book castle · bioluminescent fish · urban realism · speculative landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1667
A teen math prodigy with leukemia and a D&D friend group gets pulled into a time-travel mystery that could save a girl.
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Setting labels: 1980s · 1986 · London · South London · urban setting · British setting · 1980s teen life · pre-digital era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1789
A literary detective enters the BookWorld to rescue her erased husband while a dangerous corporate plot threatens reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate England · 1980s · BookWorld · library setting · fictional reality · inside books · real world and fiction · parallel universe · time travel setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1844
A hybrid essay-and-novella response to Orwell that critiques 1984 and imagines a harsher, union-dominated Britain.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Britain · London · 1970s Britain · near-future · postwar Britain · alternate future · urban unrest
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1973
A boy's family is drawn into a bizarre struggle with seven town-bound wizard siblings over 2,000 missing words.
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Setting labels: small English town · contemporary world · urban setting · Britain · 1980s UK · city-as-system · constrained town · alternate-real world · time-bent reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2026
The Doctor is trapped in a time corridor as Daleks, Davros, and old enmities collide in a grim race for power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 20th century Earth · 1980s London · derelict docklands · TARDIS · interstellar war · future prison ship · time corridor
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2028
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
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Setting labels: Cambridge · England · 1980s England · 1990s England · university years · middle age · Europe · Eastern Europe · pre-war Europe · alternate Europe · contemporary realism · liminal reality
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Distance: 0.2029
A chaotic detective mystery links ghosts, quantum weirdness, a missing cat, and time travel through one grand interconnected puzzle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · present day · 1980s · London · Cambridge · university setting · cross-dimensional · time travel · alternate reality · contemporary fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2061
Across 1910, 1969, and 2009, the League hunts an occult apocalypse plot while time, culture, and identity unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 20th century · early 21st century · 1910 · 1969 · 2009 · London · Britain · occult alternate history · shared fictional reality · multi-era setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2090
In a fascist future Britain, a masked rebel draws a young woman into a dangerous campaign against the regime.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate future · post-nuclear world · dystopian Britain · futuristic London · late 1990s · police state · concentration camps · Orwellian setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2092
Back to the Future is reimagined as a Shakespearean play in verse, complete with rhymes, stagecraft, and Easter eggs.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · 1950s · 16th century framing · New World frame · time travel · theatrical world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2115
A young man enters an elite ark-city and discovers a secret power that pulls him through parallel worlds and hidden truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate London · dystopian city · post-apocalyptic · parallel world · inner city megastructure · controlled enclave · wasteland · decolonized reality · alternate history · future London
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2125
