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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The First State of Being.
Setting labels used: August 1999, Delaware, apartment complex, late 1990s, future timeline, historical present, urban neighborhood, millennium cusp
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A romance-loving teen falls into 1895 and must choose between a dream love and the life she left behind.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1990s · 1890s · Victorian era · dual timeline · historical past · mansion setting · high society · old house · period setting · alternate century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2681
A young New Yorker becomes tied to a tattoo machine that exposes hidden truths, then faces its fallout over decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1960s · 1990s · 2000s · near future · alternate history · post-9/11 · urban · counterculture · apartment setting · real-world history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2704
A recently divorced programmer stumbles into a time portal and gets a life-changing second chance at love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · 1990 · 2020 · apartment building · tower block · urban domestic setting · near-future contemporary
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2795
In a crowded future New York, a detective’s murder case opens into a bleak vision of scarcity, riots, and collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · 1999 · near future · urban overcrowding · collapsed infrastructure · rationed city · resource-depleted world · dark future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2797
A time-traveling teen races through shifting timelines to stop a deadly global plan before the future locks in forever.
Why this is here
Setting labels: past and future · alternate timelines · historical settings · American history · urban settings · 20th century
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2803
A college student researching a mythic heroine becomes the next avatar of imagination in a futuristic New York.
Why this is here
Setting labels: weirdly futuristic New York · alternate timeline · 1999 · near-future city · Immateria · world of imagination · material vs immaterial worlds · mythic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2893
A two-part diamond-heist tale links a contemporary romantic suspense to a future Eve Dallas murder case.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Maryland · New York City · 2059 · contemporary · future · mid-21st century · small-town setting · urban future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2961
Two women across decades join a covert time-war over history, feminism, and who gets to shape the future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1992 California · 2022 future · alternate history · shared-time travel world · late 19th century · punk scene · historical past · near future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2962
A seventh grader’s birthday phone accidentally sends him to 1997, where he must fix time with his genius best friend.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Philadelphia · 1990s · 1997 · contemporary setting · historical past · alternate timeline · present day · middle school world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2971
A stranded time agent must choose between the future he lost and the daughter he raised in the past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1990s · 2010s · 2142 · San Francisco · suburban San Francisco · future society · alternate future · time travel · near future · contemporary domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2996
A grief-stricken man uses time travel to try to save his murdered wife and unborn child, but the past resists.
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Setting labels: 2012 · 2029 · 1980s · past and future · psychedelic future · modern day · urban · near-future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3037
A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · New York City · 1990s · early 2000s · near future · contemporary realism · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.3042
