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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for That Hideous Strength.
Setting labels used: Earth, England, university setting, college setting, academic setting, fantastic realism, mythic reality
Focused on “magic-as-normal world” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A traumatized graduate student in magical psychiatry confronts an abusive mentor, mind reading, and a split self.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university setting · graduate school · academic institution · England · United States · contemporary setting · alternate world · magic-as-normal world · academic magic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1824
Discworld wizards accidentally create a universe, while science chapters explain how our real one works.
Why this is here
Setting labels: fantasy world · imaginary place · academic setting · university setting · cosmic scale · Earth history · modern world · deep time
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1539
A philologist is swept into cosmic journeys that turn science fiction into Christian allegory, philosophy, and moral conflict.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · Venus · Earth · English university town · rural English college town · academic setting · other worlds · cosmic cosmology · pre-spaceflight imagination · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1666
Adult Lyra and her daemon are torn apart by doubt, then drawn into a dangerous international quest.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oxford · Europe · Asia · alternate world · parallel worlds · fantasy world · college setting · Middle East
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1894
A posthumous collection of Lewis fragments and stories exploring time, myth, space travel, and unsettling other worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oxford · Cambridge · Mars · Moon · ancient Greece · Troy · Othertime · alternate reality · space-age future · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1954
Nix must navigate shifting trust, desire, and danger as a dark why-choose power game and mystery deepen.
Why this is here
Setting labels: prestigious university · club setting · planetary setting · other planets · fictional universe · sci-fi world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1983
A queer college freshman facing suicide gets nine days to choose life as an asteroid heads for Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college campus · college dorm · family home · apocalypse setting · modern-day · contemporary setting · asteroid impact · end-times reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1994
Two short, ambiguous Wells stories explore a hidden doorway and an exam slip-up through regret, choice, and conscience.
Why this is here
Setting labels: school · university · academia · real world · slightly fantastical world · portal fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2016
A determined transfer student hunts answers about his cousin’s death and gets pulled into a dangerous, possessive poly romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university · college · academy · another planet · intergalactic world · futuristic setting · elite society · secret society · high-tech campus · planetary government
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2075
A 28-story collection of eerie, high-concept weird fiction where ordinary worlds are warped by impossible intrusions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary reality · near-future · alternate reality · urban setting · London · Europe · England · coastal setting · island setting · isolated enclave · medical setting · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2120
A teen blogger hosts an alien exchange student, and first contact turns into romance amid prejudice and sabotage.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · modern Earth · alien planet · interplanetary reality · contemporary setting · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2120
In a near-future Oxford, an anti-aging drug deepens inequality and a group of activists tries to fight back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Oxford · near future · late 21st century · dystopian future · English setting · college town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2123
