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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Permutation City.
Setting labels used: near future, mid-21st century, virtual world, computer simulation, cyberspace, globalized future, post-overdevelopment Earth, distributed computing environment, mathematical universe, computed reality
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In a vast virtual-reality network, scattered allies race to uncover its secrets, survive it, and stop its deadly design.
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Setting labels: virtual reality world · near future · online world · parallel world · simulation worlds · real world · networked society · dystopian future · cyberspace · otherworldly landscapes
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Distance: 0.0860
In a ruined future, a world designer investigates deadly glitches inside the virtual realities everyone depends on.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate collapse · virtual reality · dystopian future · capsule life · uninhabitable Earth · computer-simulated worlds · digital worldscape · alternative realities · futuristic society
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Distance: 0.0890
A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society
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Distance: 0.1003
A VR gaming guide is hired by a mysterious client, then pulled into a high-stakes web of espionage, identity, and danger.
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Setting labels: near future · virtual reality · online games · MMORPGs · real world crossover · cybernetic future
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Distance: 0.1007
A teen gamer in a grim future races through a virtual reality treasure hunt built on 1980s pop culture clues.
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Setting labels: 2044 · near future · dystopian future · virtual reality world · shared virtual environment · online game world · real world vs virtual world · post-collapse society
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Distance: 0.1012
A themed short-story collection of AI, alien, fantasy, and Silo-related tales, each paired with author notes.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian futures · alien worlds · Earth · virtual worlds · simulation worlds · Silo universe
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Distance: 0.1015
On the run from a powerful game company, Simon and friends dive back into VR as reality begins to fracture.
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Setting labels: near-future · virtual reality world · real world · game world · mixed reality · scientific company setting · digital simulation
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Distance: 0.1028
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
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Distance: 0.1079
A superintelligent AI enforces perfect safety and immortality, pushing humanity into a post-singularity crisis of meaning.
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Setting labels: near-future · post-singularity · posthuman · cyberspace · simulation · post-scarcity world · immortal society · quantum physics
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Distance: 0.1081
A teen gamer is forced into a virtual-reality hunt for a dangerous hacker where the game may become fatal.
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Setting labels: virtual reality · digital world · future society · real world · shared virtual environment · immersive simulation · online game world · technology-driven future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1103
A compact collection of experimental SF stories probing AI, uploads, simulation, and technological dread.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · digital future · spacefaring future · alternate reality · simulated worlds · outer space · interdimensional space · corporate tech world · online culture · AI-mediated setting · posthuman setting · planetary exploration
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Distance: 0.1104
A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · simulated current world · Silicon Valley · internet culture · social media world · tech industry · virtual world · online society
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Distance: 0.1119
