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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Plastic.
Setting labels used: plastic world, post-nuclear world, surveillance state, virtual world, retail workplace, futuristic dystopia, alternate reality, post-apocalyptic future
Focused on “technological hellscape” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1061
In a paperless dystopia, a girl finds a real book that may lead to the last library on Earth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near-future · dystopian world · paperless society · tree-less world · corporate state · surveilled society · high-tech world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1067
An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · utopian · near-future · future worlds · spacefaring · virtual reality · alternative reality · Earth-bound · off-world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1112
In a brutal dystopian sequel, Zoey hunts answers about her past while confronting a traveling market that trades in women.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · post-collapse world · militaristic compound · missile silo · traveling carnival · wasteland · scarce-women world · real world · isolated facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1129
Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1151
In a woman-scarce future Alaska, one fugitive bride is matched to six husbands and a past that won’t stay buried.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future world · dystopian world · post apocalyptic world · Alaska · safe haven · government compound · near future · alternate universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1152
In a virtual dystopia, a teen risks everything to cross back into the real world and reunite with her family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · virtual world · real world · dystopian future · technology-dependent society · domestic surveillance culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1160
A hacked-and-haunted hero races through a virus-ravaged future to stop a new power struggle over life, death, and control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · surface world · bunkers · virtual reality · simulation · lab setting · world ravaged by virus · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1166
A hitman is forced to target a rising cyborg religion in a grim near-future city ruled by a brutal police state.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · unified world · ruined city · New York · crapsack world · post-collapse society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1188
A silent wanderer crosses a vast vertical megastructure searching for a gene that may restore humanity’s link to the Net.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · vertical city · megacity · megastructure · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · industrial wasteland · post-human setting · cybernetic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1191
A cult-raised teen accepts a corporate cure, only to wake in a robot body and uncover a conspiracy about identity and control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-nuclear war · radioactive world · futuristic city · future America · future New York · dystopian world · tech-dominated society · fringe cult · fringe society · corporate future · neon city · wasteland · robotic body
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1194
In a near-future VR dystopia, two students/soldiers on separate missions uncover a conspiracy that could collapse both worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · virtual reality · real world · cyberpunk city · academy setting · militarized society · corporate state · climate-ravaged world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1209
