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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind.
Setting labels used: near-future dystopia, workplace novel, corporate office, dreamscape, sleep world, late-stage capitalism, capitalist society
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An in-universe self-help audiobook from Severance offers absurd, earnest advice on identity, freedom, and work-life balance.
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Setting labels: dystopian workplace · corporate fiction · in-universe artifact · alternate reality · office world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1029
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1106
A cyborg writer posing as AI races against debt, deadlines, and a draining battery in a corporate dystopia.
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Setting labels: future city · cyberpunk city · dystopian future · corporate dystopia · late capitalism · megacorp control · working-class precarity · slums
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Distance: 0.1114
A memory-wiped engineer receives odd trinkets instead of his paycheck and must use them to survive and uncover the truth.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · police state · corporate power · authoritarian government · industrial workplace · near future
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Distance: 0.1193
A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.
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Setting labels: space · far future · dystopian future · corporate society · capitalist dystopia · interstellar setting · tech-saturated world · repressive society · space scavenger culture
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Distance: 0.1231
A hardboiled detective probes the murder of a gigantic elite Titan in a near-future society built on life-extending biotech.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · fictional city · urban noir · corporate dystopia · rich enclave · class-stratified society · posthuman society · cyberpunk-like setting
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Distance: 0.1234
In a corporate dystopia, a memory seller and a law enforcer are forced together when she loses her memories.
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Setting labels: near future · futuristic city · dystopian future · corporate state · privatized society · hypercapitalist world · metro city · wilderness · no-man's-land
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Distance: 0.1264
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
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Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1292
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
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Distance: 0.1300
A venture capitalist is pulled into a dating app that matches people with corpses, triggering satire, horror, and romance.
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Setting labels: speculative future · corporate world · startup environment · social media culture · venture capital scene · tech industry · dystopian society · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1314
Teens race to expose a hidden plan and stop unwinding before a violent uprising and power grab consume the country.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · United States · political dystopia · corporate-controlled society · post-crisis society · militarized state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1321
An insider's, spoiler-heavy guide to the Uglies universe with history, slang, science, maps, and author notes.
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Setting labels: future society · near-future · post-scarcity dystopia · United States (former) · Japan (minor) · alternate future history · fictional universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1333
