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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Kiln People.
Setting labels used: near future, Earth, urban future, technologically transformed society, political-economic future, street-level future
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An outlaw journalist races to expose a corrupt president in a profane, darkly funny near-future political satire.
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Setting labels: Near future · Dystopian future · Hyper-urban city · Decaying metropolis · Political future · Technological future
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Distance: 0.0749
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
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Distance: 0.0855
An exiled gonzo journalist keeps fighting a corrupt president while uncovering the city’s darkest social truths.
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Setting labels: near-future · cyberpunk city · dystopian city · urban decay · media-saturated future · political future
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Distance: 0.0950
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
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Distance: 0.0972
A robot collection centered on sentience, freedom, and humanity, anchored by the title story of Andrew’s long quest for personhood.
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Setting labels: future Earth · near future · space exploration · futuristic society
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Distance: 0.0994
A household robot develops self-awareness and fights to be recognized as human, body and all.
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Setting labels: future Earth · twenty-first century · far future · robotic society · outer space · Moon · colonies · near-future extrapolation · technological future
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Distance: 0.1014
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
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Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
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Distance: 0.1063
An astronaut returns to an Earth transformed by time and a peace-driven social experiment, and struggles to belong.
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Setting labels: Earth future · space travel · post-scarcity society · post-violence society · technological utopia · dystopian utopia · spacefaring civilization
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Distance: 0.1079
An amnesiac man with brain implants can read minds and surf the web by thought, while assassins hunt him for answers.
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Setting labels: near future · technological future · digital society · wired world · not too distant future · contemporary future
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Distance: 0.1086
In a perfected future, two teens must live ancient hardships for class and discover what their world lacks.
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Setting labels: future Earth · utopian society · near future · high-tech future · teleportation · headspace · solar system travel · school setting
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Distance: 0.1088
A fix-up of linked stories about proving psychic powers are real and building an institution to protect Talented people.
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Setting labels: near future · future Earth · alternate Earth · bureaucratic future · overcrowded city · urban setting · late 20th century · scientific future
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Distance: 0.1089
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: 0.1091
