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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Across the Sand.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Colorado, sand-covered wasteland, buried cities, future Earth, desert landscape, No Man's Land, mining city, industrial mining area, scarce-resource society, dystopian future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a sand-buried future, a fractured family of divers risks everything to reach an ancient city below the dunes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · sand-covered world · desert landscape · Colorado · buried cities · lawless society · small towns · resource-poor future · western frontier feel · open environment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0547
In a shattered future, a scavenging robot and a desperate human form a forbidden bond that could change everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian city · wasteland · desert landscape · isolated settlement · segregated society · far future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0895
A teen amnesiac joins Earth's last survivors as two alien empires wage war across the planet and reality shifts around them.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · Colorado · fortified compound · ruined cities · wasteland · alien-occupied planet · battlefield world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1074
A resurrected vampire antihero wakes after 150 years in a ruined Earth and sets out to restore honor, justice, and his lost promise.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · Colorado · New York · Europe · space · Etheric Dimension · collapsed civilization · tech breakdown · urban wasteland
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1095
Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)
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Distance: 0.1128
In a shattered desert world, a fierce teen hunts for her kidnapped twin, facing danger, rebels, and impossible odds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic · dystopian future · desert wasteland · lawless frontier · isolated homestead · wasteland civilization · semi desert · anarchic world · western feel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1133
A boy in a barren future city is exiled into a hummingbird drone and uncovers his people’s hidden truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · far future · barren wasteland · dystopian settlement · walled city · outlands · wasteland · hidden oasis · deadly wilderness · post-collapse California · future Latin American inspired setting · urban underclass
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1136
A gruff food-truck cook and a mysterious hungry girl outrun soldiers across a post-apocalyptic desert.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · desert wasteland · dystopian future · war-torn setting · scarce water · ruined civilization · roadside travel · futuristic wasteland
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Distance: 0.1138
A lone martial artist crosses a nuclear wasteland, protecting the weak and crushing gangs with lethal pressure-point combat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic wasteland · nuclear fallout · barren dystopia · ruined cities · desert landscape · lawless world · gang-controlled society · 1980s-coded future · road-warrior world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1159
An orphan girl in a ruined future city sets out to uncover the truth about her family and the world that survived collapse.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future North America · mobile cities · wilderness · depleted world · high-tech remnant world · post-industrial collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1161
A scavenger robot fights to survive a post-human wasteland while rival machine collectives hunt independent minds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · human extinction · wasteland · desert landscape · Rust Belt · Midwest · North America · ruined cities · robot western · Mad Max-like wasteland · post-human future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1161
A former librarian becomes a post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior and faces rivals, raiders, and absurd survival in the wasteland.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · wasteland · small town · rural survival · collapsed society · post-collapse communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1162
