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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for In the Watchful City.
Setting labels used: future city-state, isolated city, surveillance state, post-traumatic society, Asian-inspired world, Asian-influenced world, biocyberpunk world, high-tech magic, futuristic city, city limits, bordered world
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A body-double twin must survive a war-torn city, find her missing sister, and outmaneuver her tyrannical father.
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Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian city-state · post-rusties world · AI city · rebellion-era society · near-future · walled city · surveillance state · free city · post-apocalyptic future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1280
A mutant werewolf detective uses uncanny scent to solve linked crimes in a futuristic city where magic and tech collide.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · future planet · other planet · megacity · urban setting · multi-species world · magic-and-technology world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1449
An elite boy in a sealed futuristic city shelters a fugitive, triggering a conspiracy and a bond that could change everything.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · walled city · dystopian society · authoritarian city · near future · controlled city · post-collapse world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1505
In a controlled dystopian city, a girl numbered Eight begins to question her identity and the world that forbids it.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · controlled society · sterile world · enclosed city · training regime · dreamlike reality · overseas hierarchy
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Distance: 0.1526
A loyal engineer in a glass-walled future state records his orderly life until love and doubt unsettle his total system.
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Setting labels: future city · glass city · walled society · surveillance state · post-war future · twenty-sixth century · technocratic world · external wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1539
A teen awaiting beauty surgery discovers a rebellion that could expose the cost of her society’s perfect life.
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Setting labels: future society · post-apocalyptic future · isolated cities · walled city · controlled society · high-tech future · wilderness · commune · ruins · distant future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1565
In a surveilled walled city where self-expression is outlawed, a teen uncovers a hidden underground and a fight for freedom.
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Setting labels: walled city · post-apocalyptic · underground world · dystopian future · surveillance state · restricted society · city under control
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1605
A storybot chronicles two siblings' struggle to save a sinking cyberpunk city amid revolution, bot rights, and wish-granting tech.
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Setting labels: sinking city · future city · cyberpunk city · flooded city · decaying urban setting · off-world planet · far-future setting · interplanetary backdrop · colonized world · localized city setting
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Distance: 0.1634
A mistreated orphan escapes a brutal future institution and joins teens who hunt invisible life-draining parasites.
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Setting labels: future city · dystopian city · polluted future · industrial future · surveillance state · satellite-controlled city · cyberpunk city · orphanage · prison-like institution · nighttime cityscape · bleak future
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Distance: 0.1642
A traumatized, unkillable relic is dragged back into a ruined world of AI gods, mechs, devotion, and dangerous secrets.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ruined city-states · AI-governed cities · semi-post-apocalyptic world · rubble and ruins · temple ruins · alternate world · far-future world · police state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1661
In a flooded dystopian city, a courtesan faces a friend's impossible return from death and a revolt against power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · dystopian city · flooded city · canals · high surveillance · post-collapse society · futuristic city · lawless society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1663
A sheltered young woman is pulled into elite courtship, a forbidden love triangle, and a buried rebellion in a tightly controlled future society.
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Setting labels: far future · post-war future · cloud city · surface world · underground society · technologically advanced society · surveillance state · caste system · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1664
