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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Hollow Places.
Setting labels used: contemporary, North Carolina, museum setting, coffee shop, alternate dimension, interdimensional space, isolated small town, weird reality
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A failed comedian on a cross-country drive gets a magical tattoo that reveals three possible lives he can choose from.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · cross-country · North Carolina · road trip · small town · tattoo parlor · California · alternate realities · parallel universes
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1874
An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1909
Nine strange, self-contained stories blend ordinary lives with ghosts, superheroes, dolls, and other uncanny disruptions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · rural North Carolina · Florida · Florida Keys · New York City · small town · hotel conventions · spaceship · deep space · pocket universes · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2166
A milk run becomes a wildly absurd time-travel adventure when a dad returns with an unbelievable explanation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary home · corner shop · space-time continuum · outer space · pirate ship · time travel · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2283
A small-town horror finale sends a ragtag group across realities to confront a multiversal evil and its mystery barn.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · rural setting · parallel universes · multiple timelines · alternate realities · interdimensional reality · cosmic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2315
A secret affair becomes public in a strange city where adulterous couples can live openly, until paradise starts to crack.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed city · alternate reality · liminal space · dreamscape · faux-utopia · secret city · hotel rooms · real world · surreal city · claustrophobic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2323
A snarky barista gains elemental powers from a spiked latte and is pursued by secret agencies and a deadly-hot agent.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · coffee shop · secret government · covert agency · paranormal world · urban setting · hidden supernatural society · science-and-magic blend
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2365
A genre-bending short story collection where portals, marriages, and identity crises expose the costs of escape and desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · domestic sphere · boarding school · space · alternate reality · speculative reality · near future · mythic realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2388
A mind-bending horror comic where parallel Gideon Falls, a sinister machine, and a relentless evil collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · big city · alternate realities · parallel worlds · multiverse · nightmarish reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2390
A father and daughter use a mysterious device to cross parallel worlds while shadowy forces hunt them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · small town · parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate Earths · contemporary setting · dystopian worlds · familiar-and-bizarre realities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2407
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A magical innkeeper in small-town Texas must protect her neutral haven when a vicious creature threatens her guests and neighbors.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small Texas town · Bed and Breakfast · inn grounds · orchard · portal travel · interdimensional market · Earth as neutral ground · spacefaring reality · urban fantasy setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2414
A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2447
