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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre.
Setting labels used: Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Mount Rainier, wilderness, isolated settlement, eco-community, smart homes, off-grid living, post-eruption landscape, forest setting, national park setting, near Seattle
Focused on “post-collapse” 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.
After a deadly pandemic, an immune survivor leads a fragile group toward safety while preppers, danger, and loss close in.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Washington state · Seattle · cabin in the woods · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · depopulated world · collapsed civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1680
After a meteor-scarred drought ends, an estranged detective and biologist uncover an alien fungal outbreak tied to a child’s disappearance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Seattle · Pacific Northwest · Puget Sound · rainforest · woods · forest · near future · post-apocalyptic world · shared universe · meteor-shifted ecology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1900
A boy follows his obsessed father into a Bigfoot hunt near Mount St. Helens and discovers bigger dangers than he expected.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Mount Saint Helens · Portland · volcanic setting · woods · caves · cabin
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1999
A freelance writer chasing her brother’s disappearance uncovers a forest-bound fungal terror in an Oregon town.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Clackamas National Forest · Mt. Hood · small town · ruined hotel · abandoned mines · forest edge · mining town · wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2017
A glacier expedition in a cursed wilderness unravels into vanishing bodies, warped time, and a second investigation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: wilderness · forest · mountain · glacier · Pacific Northwest · western United States · remote wilderness · isolated cabin · academic field site · liminal space · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2209
After a global tech collapse, survivors in the Pacific Northwest rebuild through survival skills, clans, and new power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Idaho · contemporary world · post-apocalyptic world · technologically regressed world · medieval-like society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2370
A foul-mouthed crow protects the last human child while the post-apocalyptic animal world grows stranger and deadlier.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Seattle · Alaska · North America · post-apocalyptic world · near future · wilderness · urban ruins · marine environments · changed earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2380
After moving away from her best friend, Vega goes to camp to make new ones and uncovers a bizarre mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Portland, Oregon · Seattle, Washington · summer camp · woods · space station · outer space · contemporary setting · Pacific Northwest
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2394
A foul-mouthed pet crow navigates a Seattle zombie apocalypse, trying to save humans and trapped animals alike.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Seattle · Washington · post-apocalyptic · urban · Pacific Northwest · human-extinction future · nature-ruled world · suburban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2400
A wilderness camping trip turns into a desperate hunt after a woman is taken by a mysterious creature.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Northwest Idaho · Pacific Northwest · wilderness · forest · woods · mountains · cabin · resort · small town · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2405
Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Vancouver Island · British Columbia · Canada · West Coast Canada · Pacific Northwest · Cowichan Valley · near future · late 21st century · early 22nd century · post-pandemic · post-collapse · isolated community · small town · suburb · flooded infrastructure · climate-ravaged future · partially globalized future · space-age backdrop
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2735
A grieving alchemist and his runaway nephew chase a madmaking salamander across the nineteenth-century Northwest.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 19th century · late 1800s · post-Civil War · American frontier · Northwest · Pacific Northwest · Washington state · frontier town · wilderness · temperate rainforest · early American empire · frontier West · manifest destiny era · historical alternate-feeling world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2576
