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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Relentless Moon.
Setting labels used: alternate 1960s, Moon colony, Earth, Mars mission backdrop, space program, lunar base, post-meteor future, climate catastrophe
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In an alternate 1961, a celebrated woman astronaut joins the first crewed mission to Mars amid politics, prejudice, and peril.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1961 · alternate history · moon colony · Mars mission · space station · Earth crisis · early space age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1092
A cynical space nurse gets pulled into a wild 1969 conspiracy in a JFK-survived alternate America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1960s · 1969 · Moon · space station · moon colony · alternate America · retro-futuristic · historical alternate reality · space race era · New York City · orbit
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1537
An alternate-history NASA saga where JFK survives and America races to send astronauts to Mars in the 1980s.
Why this is here
Setting labels: NASA · United States · post-Apollo era · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · alternate timeline · real-world history blend · space program
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1790
A psychic young man helps humanity expand into space while sabotage, recovery, and destiny link two saga timelines.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space station · Earth orbit · near future · overpopulated Earth · Moon base · Mars base · space colonies · interstellar future · alternate Earth · colonization era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1804
After a meteor strike makes Earth uninhabitable, a brilliant 1950s pilot fights sexism to join the space race.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1950s · 1950s America · alternate timeline · postwar era · Cold War era · post-apocalyptic · space program · moon mission · Mars colonization · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1839
A chronological collection of Heinlein’s interconnected Future History tales, tracing humanity’s path into space and beyond.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · near future · space age · Moon colony · Luna city · outer space · alternative history · 20th century future
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Distance: 0.1864
A wisecracking Moon family buys a spaceship and roams the Solar System, mixing science, schemes, and family chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Luna colony · Moon colony · Mars · asteroid belt · Solar System · near-future SF · 1950s future · space colonies
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1865
A scientist uncovers a free-energy breakthrough from a parallel universe and races to stop the hidden cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · Moon · parallel universe · twenty-second century · future Earth · lunar colony · alternate physics · fictional universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1879
A Mars geologist-artist confronts memory gaps, a false note, and a suspected conspiracy while doubting her own mind.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars colony · Mars base · near future · dystopian future · corporate rule · space travel · research station · alternate future Earth · interplanetary distance
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1885
A debt-ridden psi-security worker finds reality unraveling after a lunar mission, while ads for Ubik intrude everywhere.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · 1992 · lunar colony · Earth · corporate dystopia · cold-pac facility · cryogenic suspension · alternative reality · post-death limbo · American future
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Distance: 0.1894
Birds on the Moon build a quirky socialist utopia until a crash-landed human disrupts their strange, funny world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: moon colony · post-apocalyptic future · terraformed moon · bird utopia · alternate reality · environmental aftermath · futuristic setting · Earth backstory
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1899
A prize-driven Mars mission gains a stowaway whose presence upends the crew and their assumptions about machines and humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · Mars · spaceflight · retro-futurist · alternate future · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1914
