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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Doloriad.
Setting labels used: unnamed Prague outskirts, post-apocalyptic future, deserted city, ruins, forest edge, catacombs, ruined built environment, dead world, apocalyptic wasteland
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a collapsing city, an unnamed woman shelters a girl and survives by watching both the streets and a strange world beyond her walls.
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Setting labels: unnamed city · near future · post collapse · urban ruin · apartment block · parallel world · interior world · unnamed country
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1593
A sheltered teen crosses a ruined city with a robot companion to save her dying pet and confront what humanity means.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic city · ruined wasteland · abandoned apartment building · future world · ravaged city · dystopian landscape · isolated shelter · ruined streets · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1665
In a biotech-ravaged city, a scavenger shelters a strange living creature whose growth upends survival, trust, and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic city · ruined urban landscape · unnamed city · toxic environment · ecological collapse · biotech wasteland · drought · polluted river · corporate ruin
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1770
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Two girls keep climbing through the ruins of civilization, finding meaning in survival, memory, and each other.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined city · layered city · industrial wasteland · dead civilization · near-empty world · war-damaged world · multi-level ruins
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1848
Two girls roam a ruined, near-empty world by motorbike, scavenging to survive and finding small joys in the wasteland.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic world · abandoned city · urban wasteland · snowy ruins · industrial wasteland · multi-level city · post-war world · unknown future · ruined civilization · empty world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1892
A lone zombie girl follows cryptic signs into a hidden community, where survival secrets turn into a bigger war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic London · city ruins · secret headquarters · abandoned building · undead-infested world · fictional apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1912
A survivor’s journal from a shattered city becomes a future researcher’s key to uncovering what destroyed humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · siege city · ruins · war-torn city · future recovery · global collapse · unnamed city · cosmic horror world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1913
Two elderly sisters in a walled garden face upheaval when a mysterious boy breaches the boundaries of their secluded world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: unnamed place · unknown time · walled garden · isolated estate · boarded-up house · post-apocalyptic world · climate-damaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1924
A foster teen surviving a vanished world confronts gangs, scarcity, and mysterious giant visitors she cannot understand.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · end of the world · abandoned city · ruined civilization · winter landscape · Earth · suburban landscape · hostile wasteland
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1944
An amnesiac teen awakens in a bee-blighted dystopia, marked as dangerous and hunted on all sides.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · walled city · outside the wall · sewers · tunnels · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1968
A newly freed zombie girl roams a ruined London, navigating rival factions and her own changing nature.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · post-apocalyptic city · abandoned city · urban ruins · zombie-controlled city · underground facility · military base · post-outbreak world · ruined infrastructure · sunlight exposure
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1977
A themed anthology of post-apocalyptic stories exploring many versions of life after collapse, from bleak to hopeful.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · far future · ruins · wasteland · collapsed civilization · deserted civilization · quarantined colony · tunnels · outposts
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1977
