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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Age of Ash.
Setting labels used: single-city setting, secondary world, fantasy city, walled city, trade city, ancient city, grim city, slums, poor district, wealthy districts, river city, one-year span, quarantined areas, urban fantasy
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An occupied city on the brink of revolt unspools through many lives as a stolen talisman and ancient magic ignite chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: single-city setting · occupied city · industrial city · crumbling city · city-state · portal wood · cursed district · demon-powered industry · foreign occupation · secondary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1541
A fragmented, illustrated chronicle of a strange city where fungus, squid, art, and madness blur fact and fiction.
Why this is here
Setting labels: fictional city · secondary world · urban setting · tropical setting · river city · library setting · institutional setting · fantasy city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1684
Three rivals in a colonized, drought-stricken city race for a hidden magical fuel that could save or doom them all.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dying city · occupied city · colonized city · slums · island power center · drought · blood rain · post-collapse world · climate apocalypse · secondary world · fantastical world · industrial city · South Asian-inspired setting · urban fantasy setting · resource-scarce world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1806
In a god-ruled city under siege, four mismatched lives collide around war, politics, and a hidden dragon.
Why this is here
Setting labels: single city · besieged city · walled city · rule by gods · demigod hierarchy · military city · post-civil-war world · limited habitable space · multiple worlds (hinted)
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1892
In the corrupt city of Primordium, an assassin’s encounter with an ancient flesh-shaper ignites transformation, revenge, and desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: ancient city · corrupt city · degraded city · city-state · mythic reality · dark fantasy world · first city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1934
A debt-burdened new mage leaves academy life behind to survive, learn fast, and earn her place in a dangerous magic world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dying cities · wilderness frontier · isolated cities · magic-scarred world · city-state system · road travel · fantasy secondary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1972
A military tribunal and a dangerous expedition push the fight against the titans into new territory, ending on a major cliffhanger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: walled city · outside the walls · military setting · siege setting · dystopian world · fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1988
A slum-born boy with hidden magic is pulled into a brutal city’s secrets, power struggles, and dead-god mythology.
Why this is here
Setting labels: slum city · sea-battered city · walled city · peninsula city · gothic city · secondary world · catacombs · sewers · squalid urban setting · dying city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2001
Two war-displaced fugitives rebuild in a corrupt, dreamlike city where crime, art, and strange miracles reshape them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · desert frontier · corrupt city · tropical city · postwar world · decaying urban setting · jungle city · river city · anachronistic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2015
In a filthy industrial city, a rogue scientist’s experiment unleashes a nightmare that tests love, power, and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · industrial city · dystopian city · alternate world · steampunk setting · urban decay · polluted city · city-state · living city · riverside city · late capitalist dystopia · hellish cityscape · fictional metropolis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2022
After a war ends in stalemate, a grieving envoy enters a desert city of hidden rulers and buried secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: desert city · ancient city · Egyptian-inspired setting · postwar world · lowlands · empire · war-torn society · ancient mystery · fantasy secondary world · single-city setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2024
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A breached wall sends soldiers into a tense, mystery-filled hunt for answers as new titan powers and secrets emerge.
Why this is here
Setting labels: walled city · post-apocalyptic world · siege setting · faux-medieval society · military setting · rural villages · castle setting · dark fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2054
