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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Heartfire.
Setting labels used: alternate America, early 19th century America, New England, southern colonies, Crown Colonies, Puritan theocracy, law-based society, frontier America, historical remix
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A young Maker faces a life-altering trial while his brother’s path abroad sharpens a sibling rivalry in alternate America.
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Setting labels: alternate history · alternate America · 19th century · early 1800s · rural America · frontier · North America · Europe · France · England
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Distance: 0.1449
A boy returns home to apprentice as a blacksmith while learning to master his maker's power in an alternate America.
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Setting labels: alternate history America · late 18th century · early 19th century · frontier · American South · town setting · historical fantasy · folk magic world · alternative colonial America · rural America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1592
In an alternate America ruled by algorithms, a young Black woman assigned to power confronts love, control, and escape.
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Setting labels: alternate United States · near-future America · Texas · Louisiana · dystopian society · militarized state · white supremacist regime · post-civil-war future · historical slavery · 1800s
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Distance: 0.1657
In a fractured America on the brink of apocalypse, shifting alliances and a strange child’s journey push war forward.
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Setting labels: alternate history · fractured United States · post-apocalyptic America · late 1800s America · multiple nations · seven nations · political factions · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1834
A coerced Black bounty hunter in a slavery-preserving America tracks a runaway and uncovers a dangerous conspiracy.
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Setting labels: present day · alternate history · modern America · Indianapolis · North and South · slave states · free states · near-future · dystopian America · institutionalized racism
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Distance: 0.1964
In a fractured future America, the missing Horseman Death goes rogue in a violent, prophecy-driven apocalypse tale.
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Setting labels: alternate United States · dystopian future · post-Civil War alternate history · American West · post-apocalyptic · futuristic America · factional nations · North America · high-tech frontier
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Distance: 0.2002
A streetwise teen in alternate New Orleans bargains for an airship berth, then gets swept into a race to stop a deadly weapon.
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Setting labels: alternate New Orleans · post-Civil War America · neutral city-state · late 1800s · storm-walled city · airship port · alt-history America · Caribbean-linked world
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Distance: 0.2122
In an alternate America where the Confederacy won, a bookish young historian is drawn toward a revelation that may reshape history.
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Setting labels: alternate America · post-Civil War world · 20th century New York · impoverished North · Confederate empire · dystopian future · gaslight era · steampunkish world · alternate timeline · world of empires
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Distance: 0.2133
In a matriarchal world where men are scarce property, a sheltered boy is drawn into courtship, danger, and intrigue.
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Setting labels: alternate world · Old West · Wild West · Victorian-era · Regency-era · industrializing society · medieval-esque · matriarchy · clannist culture
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Distance: 0.2190
In a world where select people harvest dreams from a hidden realm, two cousins uncover a government secret that could upend everything.
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Setting labels: alternate history · early 20th century · turn of the century · island nation · hidden realm · otherworld · frontier town · period setting · pseudo-Victorian
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Distance: 0.2192
A disgraced fox guide gets one last chance at redemption by leading a strange expedition to the gates of Hell.
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Setting labels: alternate history · quasi-Roman empire · colonial North America · indigenous North America · fantasy continent · afterlife realm · hell · ancient-inspired world · multi-species society · road network
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Distance: 0.2221
A Martian-born tomboy disguises herself as a boy to race by airship back to Mars and save her brother and home.
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Setting labels: alternate history · Regency era · early 1800s · 1812 · 1813 · London · Mars · Earth · interplanetary space · British colony · colonial frontier · nautical space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2223
