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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman.
Setting labels used: future society, dystopian future, clockwork society, regulated society, bureaucratic state, mechanized world
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a tightly controlled future, one woman confronts a system that decides who may bear children—and who may only borrow them.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · alternate future · not-so-distant future · bureaucratic society · government-regulated society · library setting · patriarchal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0759
In a sealed sector facing cyborg annihilation, a teen races against a 15-day countdown to survive and resist.
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Setting labels: future world · sector society · walled community · surveillance state · controlled society · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0814
In a state-run society, a boy’s mandatory intelligence test reveals a terrifying rule about intelligence.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · government-controlled society · school-like system · bureaucratic world · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0825
In a computer-run future of drugged conformity, one uneasy man begins to question a perfect world built to erase freedom.
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Setting labels: future Earth · global society · totalitarian future · computer-controlled society · high-tech dystopia · utopian facade · closed society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0827
In a tightly controlled future, a teen girl’s perfect match is disrupted, pushing her toward forbidden feelings and doubt.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic society · high-tech control · sterile world · regulated everyday life · surveillance state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0889
In a collectivist future where even “I” is forbidden, one man’s curiosity sparks a dangerous quest for selfhood.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · totalitarian state · collectivist society · dark age future · pre-industrial future · low-tech world · controlled society · underground hideout
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0901
In a society ruled by instinct and the collective We, two teens uncover a hidden fracture in the system.
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Setting labels: dystopian society · near-future world · nostalgic 90s tech · bureaucratic state · hierarchical society · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.0906
In a future where children license parenthood, a young inspector’s latest case exposes cracks in the system and his own past.
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Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · utopian veneer · state-controlled society · reproductive regime
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0914
In a female-run dystopia, a young scientist screens imprisoned men for breeding and uncovers a brutal conspiracy.
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Setting labels: near-future · dystopian society · futuristic world · matriarchal world · domes · Arena Dome · clan society · controlled society · highly regulated world
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Distance: 0.0921
A condensed full-cast Audible drama of a surveillance-state classic, driven by voice acting, music, and dread.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · surveillance society · totalitarian state · controlled society · war-time regime · alternate Britain · postwar future · authoritarian world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0943
In a tightly controlled future city, a streetwise fixer uncovers the truth behind an apparently fair social order.
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Setting labels: future society · urban complex · closed city · alternate reality · controlled future · technological society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0946
Fred Fordham’s graphic adaptation of Huxley’s dystopian classic renders a controlled future in vivid color and stark unease.
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Setting labels: future society · speculative future · authoritarian state · controlled society · caste system · laboratory reproduction · urban future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0968
