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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Your Utopia.
Setting labels used: near future, distant future, post-apocalyptic, posthuman, dystopian, spacefaring, corporate setting, urban apartment building, desolate planet
Focused on “planetary exploration” where exact label matches exist.
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A compact collection of experimental SF stories probing AI, uploads, simulation, and technological dread.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1101
A hardboiled detective probes the murder of a gigantic elite Titan in a near-future society built on life-extending biotech.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · fictional city · urban noir · corporate dystopia · rich enclave · class-stratified society · posthuman society · cyberpunk-like setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0842
An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0842
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0875
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: 0.0890
Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0926
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
Why this is here
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: 0.0973
A wildly unsettling short-story collection where body horror, apocalypse, grief, and dark humor keep mutating shape.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · suburban · urban · wilderness · road trip · space · apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0974
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: 0.0981
A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space · far future · dystopian future · corporate society · capitalist dystopia · interstellar setting · tech-saturated world · repressive society · space scavenger culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0992
On a polluted Earth, a government investigator on a new colony uncovers a hidden alien truth tied to his missing wife.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · Earth · off-world colony · terraforming · underground society · polluted Earth · exoplanet · space colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0993
A queer teenage reincarnation of King Arthur teams up with a backward-aging Merlin to topple a galactic corporate regime.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · space setting · interplanetary · Old Earth · colonized planets · dystopian future · corporate-controlled society · post-climate-change · faux-medieval planet · galaxy-spanning
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1003
