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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Setting labels used: Earth, present day, 1980s, London, Cambridge, university setting, cross-dimensional, time travel, alternate reality, contemporary fantasy
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A woman who dreams of her perfect man discovers he died a year ago—and time travel may be her only chance to change fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · London · bridge setting · dream reality · alternate reality · time travel world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1533
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · England · 1980s England · 1990s England · university years · middle age · Europe · Eastern Europe · pre-war Europe · alternate Europe · contemporary realism · liminal reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1568
A secret revolutionary cell battles psychic oppression through occult, time-bending, reality-warping missions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · mid-1990s · contemporary setting · alternate reality · interdimensional · psychedelic reality · historical inset · time travel · urban setting · global scope
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1638
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: 0.1759
A grieving widower gets a chance to save his wife, while the Doctor races to stop the Weeping Angels from rewriting time.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1990s · 2003 · 2011 · present and past · time travel · Earth · British setting · alternate history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1770
A Cambridge poet gets a glimpse of his future from a time traveler and must choose between destiny and his own heart.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cambridge · Cambridge University · early 2000s · 2005 · future · wormhole · parallel universes · alternate universes · time travel tourism · contemporary world · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1771
A teen math prodigy at Cambridge must untangle converging timelines before a paradox destroys his future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · 1986 · Cambridge University · college setting · England · hospital setting · urban setting · 80s nostalgia · alternative realities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1776
A scientist races to stop a deadly virus by mutating it into compassion—until kindness becomes its own danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · global setting · China · United Kingdom · research laboratory · political sphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1796
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: 0.1802
A cryptid hunt pulls two women into a multiverse-spanning crisis of divergent evolution, secret agents, and collapsing worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · London · British moorlands · parallel Earths · alternate timelines · deep time · multiverse · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1817
A Neanderthal stranded in modern London leads the Doctor, Rose, and Jack into a time-travel mystery at humanity’s dawn.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day Earth · London · Bromley · prehistoric Earth · Stone Age · distant future · future colony · time travel setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1866
A teen girl discovers she's the real time-travel heir in a secret family line and is swept into a hidden London intrigue.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · England · Victorian era · historical London · contemporary London · dual timeframe · past and present · British setting · urban fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1868
