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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Les Thanatonautes.
Setting labels used: near future, France, afterlife, heaven, earth-based future, scientific institution
Focused on “future-oriented” 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.
A themed short story collection where surreal premises probe love, identity, race, and what it means to be human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · afterlife · heaven · speculative reality · near future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1762
Forty brief afterlife vignettes turn death into a set of witty, unsettling thought experiments about life and self.
Why this is here
Setting labels: afterlife · heaven · hell · metaphysical · cosmic · dreamlike · alternate realities · future-oriented · human world reflection
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2078
Sentient bamboo on future Earth must stay hidden, then help humans survive war, robots, and a deadly plague.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · global scale · Bayonne, France · Nigeria · Siberia · Spain · France
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1790
A man racing toward oblivion must use his final reincarnations to reach perfection and stay with Death, his true love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: afterlife · past and future · ancient India · outer space · Renaissance Italy · present day · distant future · science-fiction futures · interplanetary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1822
A jazz pianist and a pop star are swept into a queer mecha war when one giant robot decides humanity should be saved.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · Earth · space colonies · Monaco · interstellar · apocalyptic · technological future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1849
A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1859
A cynical comedian’s life and future clones expose a bleak experiment in sex, aging, faith, and immortality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · post-apocalyptic world · France · Paris · Spain · Lanzarote · Almeria · dystopian society · cloned society · deserted landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1872
A fugitive cyborg and a girl hunting her missing grandmother are pulled into a high-stakes, fairy-tale-inflected chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: France · Paris · New Beijing · space · future Earth · moon · post-apocalyptic world · farm
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1878
An illustrated future-history follows humanity across deep time, until alien meddling turns evolution into punishment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · galactic scale · far future · deep time · posthuman world · interstellar civilization · speculative future · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1917
A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic · parallel worlds · multiverse · posthuman future · Earthbound settings · scientific future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1919
A nonhuman scientist raises the first human child in centuries to determine whether humanity deserves a second chance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · post-human Earth · climate-repaired world · biotech world · near-future · distant future · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1940
A near-future thriller about brain-implant mind reading, betrayal, and a race to stop a catastrophic terror plot.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future world · stunning future · technology-forward world · current-day-adjacent · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1946
