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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Ripe.
Setting labels used: Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Bay Area, contemporary, startup culture, urban inequality, late-capitalist future, near-dystopia, corporate workplace, pandemic backdrop
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An aging forensic accountant is pulled into a crypto theft case that turns into a dangerous tech-world chase.
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Setting labels: Silicon Valley · San Francisco · Bay Area · California · west coast · near-future · tech industry · cryptocurrency world · startup culture · high-wealth environments · homeless encampments
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1167
A lonely new mother in Silicon Valley bonds with a beta AI friend that predicts danger in her marriage.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · California · New York City · near future · dystopian future · smart home · suburbia · tech workplace · childhood home
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1210
A venture capitalist is pulled into a dating app that matches people with corpses, triggering satire, horror, and romance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: speculative future · corporate world · startup environment · social media culture · venture capital scene · tech industry · dystopian society · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1301
After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · contemporary setting · near-future setting · social media world · digital society · international intrigue · China expansion · internet culture · corporate setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1306
A burned-out dating-app employee follows a weird glitch into alternate worlds, exposing Big Tech secrets and his own identity crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · Silicon Valley · startup office · tech industry · corporate workplace · alternate worlds · parallel worlds · multiverse · early 2010s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1355
A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath · corporate America · New York City · high-tech society · neo-industrial future · smog-choked city · biotech future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1433
A cyborg writer posing as AI races against debt, deadlines, and a draining battery in a corporate dystopia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future city · cyberpunk city · dystopian future · corporate dystopia · late capitalism · megacorp control · working-class precarity · slums
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1442
A fired tech insider joins friends to expose data abuse and reboot the internet, risking unintended fallout.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · simulated current world · Silicon Valley · internet culture · social media world · tech industry · virtual world · online society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1550
Six years after a pandemic, four survivors in a rebuilding San Francisco face buried pasts, family bonds, and a new outbreak scare.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near-future · San Francisco · rebuilding society · metro cities · communes · wasteland zones · post-pandemic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1551
In a world where divine names are real and copyrighted, a low-wage kabbalist gets pulled into an apocalypse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate earth · present day · dystopian present · Silicon Valley · San Francisco · apocalyptic world · heaven and hell real · religious reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1568
Two friends build a machine that reads one year into the future, then face the fallout as ambition and ethics collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · California · Washington, D.C. · startup culture · tech industry · congressional oversight · near future · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1572
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate change · corporate compound · warehouse city · company town · closed ecosystem · desert landscape · ravaged America · uninhabitable outside world · surveilled workplace · live-work community
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1598
