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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
Setting labels used: late 1960s, Berkeley, California, real-world setting, post-hippie era
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A paranoid writer and his friend confront an alien-divine signal while an increasingly repressive America turns on its own people.
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Setting labels: late 1960s America · Berkeley · California · Orange County · alternate history · Cold War America · police state · surveillance state · dystopian United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1965
A hypnotized suburban husband develops telepathy and ghostly visions, exposing hidden secrets and a deadly mystery.
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Setting labels: 1950s · suburbs · California · postwar housing · working-class suburbia · domestic setting · neighborhood community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2116
A self-divided writer chases a pink-light revelation into Gnostic theology, madness, and the meaning of reality.
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Setting labels: 1970s California · Northern California · contemporary world · mythic reality · historical layering · psychiatric setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2224
After a liver transplant gives him time travel, a Black gay teen is torn between a boy in 1969 and one in the present.
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Setting labels: Boston · 1969 · present day · late 1960s · historical contemporary blend · real-world setting · Black queer teen experience
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2243
A memory-traveling woman builds a secluded California commune, and her family must confront its haunted legacy.
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Setting labels: California · Santa Cruz · Los Angeles · San Francisco · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s · 1990s · turn of the millennium · woods · redwoods · mansion · commune · off-grid
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2340
A fragmented, satirical collage of druggy visions, social critique, and grotesque shocks in Burroughs’s signature style.
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Setting labels: American society · 1960s America · urban underbelly · surreal reality · science-fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2348
An outsider psychologist investigates a closed California valley where consumer goods fail and a strange substance binds everyone together.
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Setting labels: California valley · small town · farm community · present day · 1960s America · isolated community · closed community · contemporary America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2357
A middle-aged violinist and a mysterious hotel resident hunt for her missing daughter amid 1980s computer crime and hidden magic.
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Setting labels: San Francisco · 1980s · early 1980s · Silicon Valley · urban setting · contemporary setting · hotel setting · Bay Area
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Distance: 0.2374
Twelve whimsical, nostalgic stories explore time travel, alternate possibilities, and the lure of better pasts.
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Setting labels: 1950s · 1960s · nostalgic past · late 19th century · small town · urban America · San Francisco Bay Area · Grand Central Station · historical America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2427
A telepath raised inside a centuries-long breeding scheme becomes the first real threat to the immortal who built it.
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Setting labels: 1970s California · contemporary setting · secret society · human society · psychic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2432
A stranded science-fiction writer faces a worldwide Martian nuisance that exposes secrets, wrecks routines, and upends reality.
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Setting labels: Earth · 1950s · 1964 · California desert · Indio, California · Cold War era · near-future future setting · global setting · pulp-era America · mid-century America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2486
As Earth’s days lengthen unpredictably, an 11-year-old girl navigates family strain, first love, and a quietly unfolding apocalypse.
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Setting labels: suburban California · southern California · contemporary Earth · school setting · family home · post-collapse society · global scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2537
