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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Twilight Watch.
Setting labels used: modern Russia, Moscow, Russian countryside, post-Soviet Russia, alternate supernatural world, parallel twilight realm
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In contemporary Moscow, a Light magician becomes entangled in a fragile supernatural balance between opposing Watches.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Moscow · post-Soviet Russia · modern Russia · urban setting · metro/subway setting · Twilight realm · parallel reality · secret world beneath ordinary life
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1032
A man is erased from his own life, then drawn into a hidden bureaucracy governing gateways between parallel worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Moscow · urban setting · parallel worlds · alternate Earths · multiverse · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1288
Two siblings travel through a post-catastrophe Russia filled with frozen dead children, tracing an anomaly and its human cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Russia · southern Russia · post-apocalyptic Russia · contemporary Russia · near-future Russia · countrywide catastrophe · borderland setting · rural regions · cities and provinces · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1538
An overpowered healer is thrust into a weaker body in a strange modern-magic world and turns healing into a weapon.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate modern Russia · medieval-modern blend · magic and technology coexist · parallel world · urban fantasy setting · alternate history setting · prison/dungeon opening · nobility-driven society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1687
A doctor and his driver battle a blizzard, a plague, and bizarre reality itself to reach a remote village in time.
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Setting labels: 19th century Russia · near-future Russia · post-apocalyptic world · snowbound countryside · rural village · frozen landscape · imperial Russia atmosphere · anachronistic setting · alternating past and future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1695
A newly turned vampire is initiated into a secret elite that feeds on human society through glamour, discourse, and control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Moscow · Russia in the 2000s · alternate reality · secret society · urban contemporary · vampire society · elite world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1699
A resurrected rebel must uncover hidden clues, outwit a tyrannical Council, and bring freedom and shalom to her world.
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Setting labels: dystopian world · futuristic world · global travel · Russia · Paris · contained society · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1764
In Cold War Soviet Russia, a teen psychic is forced into a KGB spy program and must protect her family and freedom.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Soviet Union · Russia · Communist Russia · Cold War · 1960s · Space Race · Moscow · historical reality with paranormal elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1772
A kidnapped father and a goblin-tech conspiracy force a young criminal genius and his fairy enemies into an uneasy alliance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: arctic · Russia · underground world · subterranean world · human world · fairy world · hidden society · urban fantasy world
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Distance: 0.1777
A psychic vampire hunter follows a secret Soviet portal into the vampires’ homeworld to stop an invasion.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · Soviet Union · Russia · Urals · secret base · parallel dimension · vampire world · alternate Earth · multi-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1789
In a ruined post-nuclear Moscow, a copyist’s love of books pulls him into a satirical world of censorship, mutation, and power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Moscow · feudal future · nuclear aftermath · ruined urban society · isolated commune · wilderness threat · post-Soviet allegory
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1805
A memory-stricken young man wakes in a ruined world overrun by demons and must rebuild his past and future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · rural village · world without technology · impulse-driven collapse · epidemic aftermath · demons in the open · contemporary-to-ruined future · slavic folklore setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1821
