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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic, dystopian, utopian, near-future, future worlds, spacefaring, virtual reality, alternative reality, Earth-bound, off-world
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In a ruined future, a world designer investigates deadly glitches inside the virtual realities everyone depends on.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate collapse · virtual reality · dystopian future · capsule life · uninhabitable Earth · computer-simulated worlds · digital worldscape · alternative realities · futuristic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0739
Nineteen YA short stories imagine what survives after collapse, from plague and war to monsters, walls, and strange new orders.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · near future · far future · space habitat · generation ship · walled society · ruined world · collapsed civilization · catastrophic future · alternate future · isolated communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0805
In a far-future world of brain jars, chips, and class control, linked stories probe power, love, and what remains human.
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Setting labels: far future · Earth · post-carbon world · virtual reality · banked-brain society · dystopian future · posthuman world
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Distance: 0.0817
A compact collection of experimental SF stories probing AI, uploads, simulation, and technological dread.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · digital future · spacefaring future · alternate reality · simulated worlds · outer space · interdimensional space · corporate tech world · online culture · AI-mediated setting · posthuman setting · planetary exploration
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Distance: 0.0864
A landmark collection of dark, idea-rich SF stories probing gender, death, alien contact, and human limits.
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Setting labels: spacefaring future · far future · alien worlds · Earth future · colonized worlds · post-apocalyptic world · alternate reality · near-future media world · cold universe · technological society
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Distance: 0.0870
A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society
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Distance: 0.0888
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
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Distance: 0.0890
A sleepless harmonizer tumbles into a new universe each time he nods off, pursued across realities by a blood-hungry enemy.
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Setting labels: multiverse · parallel universes · alternate realities · techno-utopia · dystopia · post-apocalyptic · space stations · fantastical worlds · alien sky · future worlds
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Distance: 0.0892
A themed short-story collection of AI, alien, fantasy, and Silo-related tales, each paired with author notes.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian futures · alien worlds · Earth · virtual worlds · simulation worlds · Silo universe
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Distance: 0.0895
A lone survivor rewinds to an earlier point in the tower apocalypse and races to power up before humanity is wiped out.
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Setting labels: Earth · near future · post-apocalyptic · tower world · real-world-plus-system · dystopian future · fantasy dungeon · game-like reality
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Distance: 0.0897
Philip K. Dick’s final collected stories volume gathers late-era SF tales of reality, faith, paranoia, and damaged futures.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian future · spacefaring setting · Earth colonies · Mars · off-world · fictional future
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Distance: 0.0899
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0906