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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Contest.
Setting labels used: New York Public Library, library labyrinth, New York City, Earth, intergalactic reality, teleportation, sealed setting, electrified perimeter, other worlds, multidimensional creatures
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Bullied library kid Nita finds a wizard manual and joins another novice in a secret, science-inflected quest to save reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Long Island · library · alternate New York · parallel world · urban contemporary · cosmic fantasy · secret wizard world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1647
A journalist chasing a serial killer across nearly identical realities gets pulled into the multiverse herself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · subway · open house · parallel universes · alternate realities · multiverse · slightly altered worlds
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1748
Amnesia, missing chapters, and a race to save a friend pull three kids into a meta mystery between books and reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · fictional worlds · nonfictional world · alternate reality · library setting · interworld travel · book world · metafictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1916
New York’s living avatars must unite other cities to stop a multiversal threat and a very human political takeover.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern day · contemporary urban setting · global cities · multiverse · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1925
In a near-future New York, a dictionary editor’s disappearance coincides with a language virus and a fight over words.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · New York City · alternate present · library spaces · dictionary office · subterranean spaces · digital future · post-print world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1931
A bookish time-twist sends Yute and his extraordinary cat through connected bookshops to untangle an overdue paradox.
Why this is here
Setting labels: bookshops · library world · shared universe · different times · different places · time travel · cross-dimensional · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1945
A college student’s research into a mythic heroine pulls her into an occult, reality-bending role as Promethea.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic New York · alternate reality · near-future · metaphysical realm · afterlife · collective unconscious · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1952
An orphan raised in a secret library must uncover what happened to her godlike guardian as hidden powers collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · hidden world · alternate reality · secret dimension · isolated library · mythic reality · cosmic scale · suburban setting · liminal space · outside normal time
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1953
An infinite library contains every possible book, forcing its inhabitants to search for meaning amid endless gibberish.
Why this is here
Setting labels: infinite library · hexagonal galleries · library universe · eternal world · cosmic setting · metaphysical setting · alternative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1969
An airship crew from many parallel worlds arrives in Manhattan to study a famous building—and meets its inhabitants.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · Flatiron Building · parallel worlds · multiverse · alternate timelines · cross-dimensional setting · our world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1978
Spider-Man must pet-sit a growing menagerie of Avengers’ super pets while a citywide threat pulls everyone into chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Central Park · Marvel universe · Quantum Realm · space · Atlantis · microscopic scale · cosmic setting · non-Earth setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1996
A time-stopping sex-powered couple faces relationship strain, mental health struggles, and a widening secret world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · fictionalized reality · time travel · secret world · adult life · therapy setting · library setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2020
