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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Riot Baby.
Setting labels used: United States, Los Angeles, Harlem, Compton, Rikers Island, near future, dystopian future, contemporary America, 1990s, post-riot setting
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A wealthy American family is forced to survive after the dollar collapses and the economy unravels.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · New York City · Washington, D.C. · Paris · Nevada · economic dystopia · post-collapse society · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1469
A wide-ranging collection of speculative short stories centered on Black futures, social justice, and inventive worlds.
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Setting labels: contemporary world · alternate universe · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic · utopian society · New York City · New Orleans · Jim Crow South · space colony · alien planet · historical setting
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Distance: 0.1592
A privileged New York girl’s diary records her family’s fall as a near-future city and country unravel around her.
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Setting labels: near-future Manhattan · New York City · alternate reality · urban dystopia · civil unrest · economic collapse
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Distance: 0.1685
A desperate teen rents her body to survive, then wakes up trapped inside a wealthy renter’s dangerous life.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · United States · Los Angeles · Beverly Hills · ruined urban spaces · wealth gap society · biowarfare aftermath
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Distance: 0.1689
A genetically engineered young woman in a dystopian lab breaks free and unleashes a fiery, mythic revolt.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · future America · New York · tower setting · Africa · transatlantic setting · climate-changed world · flooded cities
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Distance: 0.1740
A future oral history of how collapse, revolt, and mutual aid built a post-capitalist New York commune.
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Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · future New York City · post-capitalist world · post-revolutionary world · global collapse · climate catastrophe · civil war · commune society · post-apocalyptic setting
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Distance: 0.1745
Deckard is pulled back into Blade Runner’s world to hunt a new replicant, forcing him to confront identity and truth.
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Setting labels: Los Angeles · California · near-future · 2020 · dystopian future · high-tech urban · noir future
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Distance: 0.1806
In a dying future, a self-taught reader, a rebel woman, and a suicidal android collide in a robot-run world.
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Setting labels: future America · New York City · 25th century · far future · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · decaying city · robot-managed society · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1810
A first-person barrage of absurd, hyper-referential vignettes where plot yields to wordplay, satire, and manic invention.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · 1990s culture · American setting · media-saturated world · cyberpunk world · futuristic world · alternate reality · semi-scientific reality · dystopian future · urban America
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Distance: 0.1814
A military prodigy and a wanted slum criminal are forced into a deadly pursuit that exposes their nation’s darkest secrets.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · future America · western United States · Los Angeles · military state · wartime setting · slums and elite districts · quarantined plague zones · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1815
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
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Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
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Distance: 0.1820
A womanizing English academic is swept into a violent, apocalyptic America and remade into a new self.
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Setting labels: apocalyptic America · New York City · desert · California · post-apocalyptic future · civil war · near-future · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1846
