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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Long Tomorrow.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic America, post-nuclear future, small towns, agrarian society, religious theocracy, forbidden cities, rural America
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a caste-divided future, a village harvester is pulled into rebellion while torn between loyalty, love, and survival.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · future America · divided society · technologically advanced cities · Lesser village · capital city · orchard setting · plague aftermath · class-segregated world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1079
In an EMP-ravaged America, a rebuilt town faces a new government, an old friend, and a threat to everything it has regained.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · small town · North Carolina · rural community · military-controlled state · near-future · collapsed infrastructure · rebuilding society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1100
A lone survivor uses a dead postman’s uniform to survive, and accidentally sparks hope of rebuilding civilization.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear war · collapsed society · wilderness travel · small settlements · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1151
In a stratified future America, a young labor-colony diver leaves home to search for a vanished loved one.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future America · post-collapse America · walled communities · labor colonies · lawless countryside · abandoned cities · charter villages · post-apocalyptic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1172
Eight years after civilization’s collapse, survivors face an evolved mutant threat that could restart extinction.
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Setting labels: post apocalyptic America · Allied States of America · outposts · collapsed cities · frontier · near future · rebuilding society · military zones
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1182
Linked post-apocalyptic stories follow survivors in a Mormon-led Utah rebuilding civilization after war and collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear future · post-biological collapse · desert reclamation · Rocky Mountains · Utah · Salt Lake City · Great Salt Lake · flooded city · alternate future · theocratic state
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Distance: 0.1185
A hard-trained teen guards her family’s water source in a dry, violent world, then must survive when her life changes.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near-future · rural Ohio · isolated farmhouse · wilderness · resource-scarce society · city vs countryside
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Distance: 0.1189
In a future where religion is outlawed, a government enforcer is forced into an underground faith conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic United States · future America · post-World War III · one-world government · underground religion
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Distance: 0.1204
After a man-made supervirus collapses society, a U.S. marshal fights to protect a survivor town from violent chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · rural town · wasteland · collapsed government · pandemic aftermath · survivalist cabin · lawless frontier · small-town survival · post-collapse civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1219
A former librarian becomes a post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior and faces rivals, raiders, and absurd survival in the wasteland.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · wasteland · small town · rural survival · collapsed society · post-collapse communities
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Distance: 0.1244
A cybernetically enhanced smuggler and a mercenary join forces to fight orbital corporations controlling a broken Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · orbital habitats · balkanized America · dystopian future · Earth-dominated by corporations · urban and rural zones · post-war world
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Distance: 0.1318
An autistic teen in a virus-ravaged, time-travel-policed society uncovers a conspiracy that could cost her brother’s life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic United States · walled cities · future America · Reno, Nevada · dystopian society · time travel future · quarantined cities · controlled state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1319
