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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Exiles.
Setting labels used: near-future Los Angeles, post-earthquake, post-apocalyptic, California, elite enclave, academy setting, urban dystopia, technologically advanced city, quake aftermath, homeless camps
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A bike messenger and a fired security man are drawn into a near-future California chase over high-tech glasses.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · San Francisco Bay Area · Los Angeles · Bay Bridge community · post-earthquake · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0890
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0899
In post-nuclear Los Angeles, a former cult deprogrammer-musician must infiltrate a sinister sect to rescue his lost love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic California · nuclear-ravaged landscape · future Los Angeles · twenty-second century · dystopian future · ruined civilization · semi-medieval technology · radiation-scarred wasteland · neo-Californian civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1128
A lightning-addicted teen in quake-ravaged Los Angeles is pulled between warring cults, family, and a dangerous romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · post-earthquake · post-apocalyptic · semi-dystopian · urban wasteland · after natural disaster · storm-ravaged · homeless encampments · tent cities · rations-based survival
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1164
A queer teen survives a Los Angeles apocalypse and sets out on a myth-inflected quest to find her missing family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles · Southern California · modern day · wasteland · flooded city · surreal landscape · earthquake aftermath · tsunami aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1172
When California’s water supply suddenly fails, a teen and her family must survive a desperate scramble for water.
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Setting labels: Southern California · California · suburban neighborhood · near future · present-day adjacent · dystopian future · apocalypse · resource-scarce world · real-world setting · urban breakdown
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Distance: 0.1207
In a surveillance-heavy alternate California, a truth-detecting investigator probes a suspicious death—and the system he serves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · alternate California · Los Angeles · dystopian society · post-apocalyptic America · surveillance state · closed society · walled state · underground archives · unknown outside world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1233
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: 0.1272
A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1272
A near-future arcology in Los Angeles becomes a battleground over safety, privacy, power, and who gets to belong.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Los Angeles · near-future · urban future · arcology · enclosed city · corporate enclave · blighted city · post-fire landscape · near-future America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1273
A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1283
A trans academic surveys an isolated woods commune in a dystopian future, but his assignment and desires unravel into horror.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-collapse America · dystopian city-state · New York future · Catskills · woods · commune · exurb zone · walled city · post-apocalyptic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1284
