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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Girl One.
Setting labels used: 1990s, 1970s backstory, experimental commune, isolated compound, United States, road trip setting, small-town America, medical school
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A bullied teen in the 1970s discovers nicotine-fueled powers and a death ray, then grapples with what to do with them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · high school · suburbia · small town · city streets · United States · post-nuclear family · contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2284
Four college roommates chase a secret to immortality, only to face a ritual that demands an impossible price.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · college setting · university students · cross-country travel · Arizona desert · road trip across the USA · secret monastery · occult enclave · mystery cult · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2377
Two opposing superheroes hit the road across 1970s America, confronting crime and urgent social problems together.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · early 1970s · America · cross-country road trip · urban America · wilderness · Earth · everyday America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2489
A doctor-to-be and his friends race to stop a strange virus that turns people into something not quite human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · college town · hospital setting · American town · global outbreak · late 1990s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2500
A nonverbal autistic boy and a telepathic golden retriever become linked in a race to stop an evil pursuit.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · small town · rural town · Utah · research lab · corporate setting · contemporary · present day · American West · road chase
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2572
A self-divided writer chases a pink-light revelation into Gnostic theology, madness, and the meaning of reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s California · Northern California · contemporary world · mythic reality · historical layering · psychiatric setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2581
A guilt-ridden man dies by suicide and wakes in his teenage body, given one strange chance to redo his life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · 2016 · high school · small town · middle America · analog era · nostalgic past · contemporary frame · multiple timelines
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2634
An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2660
A grief-stricken man returns to a remote cabin and finds a dangerous secret, a guarded stranger, and a remarkable girl.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1995 · Oregon · small town · mountain cabin · rural isolation · contemporary world · road trip across America · secret facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2664
A prequel to Stranger Things follows Terry Ives into a secret 1969 lab experiment behind Eleven’s origins.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1960s · late 1960s · early 1970s · Indiana · college campus · remote lab · small town
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2668
A psychologist tours a behaviorist utopia and must decide whether engineered happiness is worth the cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · postwar era · 1940s · modern utopia · commune · planned community · experimental society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2684
A grieving magician meets a mysterious young performer who looks like his late wife and seems tied to time itself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Idaho · 1970s · 2010 · fairground · coffee shop · ranch · mental ward · road trip aftermath · small town · contemporary · time travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2688
