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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Light Pirate.
Setting labels used: near future, Florida, southeastern Florida, small town, coastal setting, post-storm world, sea level rise, weather-ravaged landscape, abandoned settlement, environmental collapse
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A linked collection of haunting stories blends ghosts, pandemics, and social dread with family-centered speculative horror.
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Setting labels: small Florida town · rural Florida · southern setting · haunted town · summer setting · historical settings · post-apocalyptic world · pandemic world · apocalyptic future · otherworldly reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1364
A family’s uneven attempts to live normally amid accelerating climate collapse trigger darkly comic, escalating fallout.
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Setting labels: near future · coastal America · California · Florida · US West Coast · US East Coast · climate-ravaged · drought and flood · wildfire country · storm-battered coast
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1371
A ghostwriter returns to her Florida childhood home after the pandemic and is pulled into family, tech, and reality-bending mysteries.
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Setting labels: Florida · South Florida · post-pandemic · summer heat · rainstorm · storm season · small town · alternate reality · near-future · swampy setting · humid setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1420
After a grid collapse, Morgan and his family must defend their home as neighbors, violence, and a shadowy government close in.
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Setting labels: Florida · small community · near-future collapse · American collapse · rural setting · homefront
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1453
A nursing student faces a Florida zombie outbreak, a hurricane, and brutal choices while trying to keep her family alive.
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Setting labels: Florida · Cape Coral · hurricane setting · post-apocalyptic world · civilization collapse · hospital setting · suburban home · road survival · barricaded base · houseboat
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Distance: 0.1568
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
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Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
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Distance: 0.1607
After a hurricane, a Florida coastal town faces a giant thresher shark, and a cop uncovers why it won’t stop killing.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Florida coast · small coastal town · post-hurricane · open water · harbor waters · sea festival · tourist town · ocean setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1615
A teen girl in a virus-ravaged Florida world must flee cannibal gangs and find a safer home with unlikely allies.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Florida · Orlando · Everglades · teen-only society · swamps · ruined suburbs · near-future collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1623
A grieving woman on a storm-battered island confronts strange messages, ghostly echoes, and a vanishing world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: remote island · North Atlantic · small island community · coastal setting · dying town · near-future · apocalyptic setting · climate-affected world · isolated village · oceanfront · wild nature · storm-battered
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1643
As global drought turns water into a scarce currency, a detached doctor is swept into society’s collapse and survival scramble.
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Setting labels: near future · small town · riverside town · coastal settlement · houseboat community · desert landscape · dried riverbed · salt plains · apocalyptic world · post-collapse world · worldwide setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1680
An android cafe owner waits for her absent owner in a gently decaying future Japan, savoring life as the world winds down.
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Setting labels: future Japan · seaside town · rural coastal town · post-catastrophe world · rising seas · quiet countryside · soft apocalypse · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1683
A teen diarist survives a climate-warped world as two survivor families collide and love, faith, and shortages collide.
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Setting labels: post apocalyptic Earth · small town · Pennsylvania · frozen landscape · worldwide disaster · climate change · winter survival · scarcity setting · intermittent electricity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1748
