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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Seeds of Time.
Setting labels used: Mars, Earth, future Earth, future Mars, spacecraft, parallel universe, time travel, post-apocalyptic, interplanetary, mid-century future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A future narrator recounts humanity’s rise, mutations, wars, and extinctions across billions of years.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · near future · alternate future · Earth · Mars · Venus · Neptune · solar system · deep time · post-apocalyptic · interplanetary · world state · climate collapse · spacefaring civilization · future Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0784
A Mars colony sends teams through time to learn why Earth’s people vanished—and whether humanity can survive a return.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Mars colony · Earth history · near future · far future · time travel · space travel · multiple time periods · post-apocalyptic Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0785
A prize-driven Mars mission gains a stowaway whose presence upends the crew and their assumptions about machines and humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · Mars · spaceflight · retro-futurist · alternate future · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0791
A landmark anthology of 26 pre-1965 science fiction classics selected by SFWA voters as the era’s best.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future worlds · Mars · space travel · post-nuclear future · distant future · alternate/imagined futures
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0803
An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0844
A lyrical cycle of linked stories follows Earth’s attempts to settle Mars and the human flaws that follow.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · Earth · future · near future · postwar future · colonized planet · fictional Mars · interplanetary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0846
A down-and-out actor is hired to impersonate a kidnapped politician, and his cover-up soon becomes a solar-system crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future solar system · Mars · Earth · interplanetary empire · interplanetary government · political future · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0849
Seventeen queer YA sci-fi stories imagine future worlds of love, struggle, survival, and identity across the galaxy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future · space · Mars · space station · planetary airport · dystopian future · cyberpunk world · alternate universe · time loop · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0852
A time-split Earth faces a new alien doomsday threat as Bisesa Dutt races across worlds for a way to save humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Earth · Mars · Mir · alternate reality · spacefaring future · time-sliced world · solar system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0918
A cyborg-led space station clash and Earth power grab collide as rival survivors fight for Mars, control, and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: solar system · Earth · Mars · space station · orbital setting · near future · dystopian future · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0956
A near-future spacefaring civilization faces cascading crises on Mars and Earth as science, power, and survival collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · Earth · Moon · near-future · spacefaring future · planetary colonies · off-world civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0969
A sprawling sequel where Trojan heroes, future humans, and robot explorers collide as godlike powers and reality itself unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · terraformed Mars · outer solar system · Jupiter moons · asteroid belt · ancient Troy · post-apocalyptic future · multiple universes
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0987
