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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The War of the Worlds.
Setting labels used: Victorian England, late 19th century, Surrey, London, Woking, British countryside, Earth, Mars
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An antiques dealer becomes obsessed with a crystal egg that opens a fleeting window onto another world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · antique shop · Victorian era · Mars · alien world · interplanetary setting · late 19th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1437
Monstrous young women race to rescue their kidnapped friend and stop a plot threatening Queen Victoria and the Empire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian England · London · Cornwall · late 19th century · British Empire · urban setting · country village · crumbling castles
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1567
A modern woman falls into Victorian England and ignites two intertwined romances between two brothers and the women who change them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Great Britain · Victorian England · late 19th century · 21st century · country estate · London ton · rural England · historical setting · time-displacement setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1585
A Victorian inventor journeys to the far future and discovers a disturbing vision of humanity's fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian England · late 19th century · 1890s · far future · year 802,701 · dying Earth · English countryside · surface world · underground world · industrial age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1608
H.G. Wells is pulled into a tangled, three-part tale of Martian menace, time travel, and a love-fueled hoax.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian London · late 19th century · early 20th century · Antarctica · British Museum · New York · alternate history · historical fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1686
Two rival Victorian magicians wage a lifelong battle of secrets, with descendants later uncovering the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian England · London · modern-day frame · country house · stage magic world · late 19th century · turn of the century · historical speculative
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1809
In Victorian London, three intertwined stories use time travel, literary figures, and shifting realities to challenge history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian England · Victorian London · late 19th century · 1896 London · 1888 London · year 2000 · alternate history · speculative England · industrial age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1844
A respectable lawyer investigates a sinister connection between a doctor and his violent secret alter ego.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian London · late 19th century · urban gothic · foggy city · respectable society · gaslit streets
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1858
A Victorian orphan follows rumors about her missing mad-scientist father to a remote island of horrors and secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Victorian era · 19th century · London · remote island · tropical island · isolated compound · jungle · medical school · historical setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1869
In a magical reimagining of early 1800s London, Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace create a living boy and chase adventure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: early 1800s · 19th century · London · historical fantasy world · alternate history · fae world · industrial era · gothic atmosphere · scientific world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1882
In 1850s England, a sharp-tongued woman scientist uncovers a family secret and pursues a dangerous, life-making experiment.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1850s · Victorian era · Victorian England · London · Scotland · Inverness · Isle of Wight · Crystal Palace · Arctic · mid-Victorian · historical · scientific revolution · paleontology boom · Gothic setting · rural England
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1905
A decadent immortal from the end of time falls in love with a Victorian time traveler and follows her into 19th-century London.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · End of Time · Victorian England · 19th century London · post-apocalyptic future · dying Earth · post-scarcity society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1953
