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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for A Better World.
Setting labels used: near future, dystopian future, environmental collapse, climate collapse, post-apocalyptic, corporate town, sealed community, walled-off enclave, dying world, polluted world, suburban setting, American suburbia, nuclear threat, underground shelter
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Nineteen YA short stories imagine what survives after collapse, from plague and war to monsters, walls, and strange new orders.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · near future · far future · space habitat · generation ship · walled society · ruined world · collapsed civilization · catastrophic future · alternate future · isolated communities
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Distance: 0.0863
In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · survival commune · ravaged landscape · eco-collapse · north American future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0876
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
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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
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Distance: 0.0876
A trans woman returns to her anarchist commune to solve her ex’s murder and confront killers wearing her pre-transition face.
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Setting labels: mid-21st century · near future · post-collapse · dystopian future · Kansas City · anarchist commune · urban ruin · corporate dystopia · climate-disaster future · post-apocalyptic USA
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Distance: 0.0889
A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
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Distance: 0.0911
A secret sleeper program races to save a select few from an extinction-level comet and wakes into a changed world.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · underground shelters · secret facility · post-apocalyptic world · radiation crisis · dystopian future · apocalyptic Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0987
A trans academic surveys an isolated woods commune in a dystopian future, but his assignment and desires unravel into horror.
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Setting labels: near future · post-collapse America · dystopian city-state · New York future · Catskills · woods · commune · exurb zone · walled city · post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.0991
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
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Distance: 0.1009
In a female-scarce post-apocalypse, Audrey is forced into a five-husband marriage that tests survival, trust, and desire.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic earth · dystopian future · near-future · Texas · safe township · bunker · lawless outside world · collapsed civilization · nuclear aftermath
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Distance: 0.1012
In a fractured future America, a reluctant teen is sent on a surreal cross-country mission with a talking goat.
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Setting labels: 2080s · near future · post-apocalyptic America · fractured United States · corporate states · lawless wasteland · environmental collapse · climate disaster · radioactive landscape · post-dissolution future · alternate America · tech-dystopia
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Distance: 0.1043
A flood-ravaged teen is reassigned inside a rigid survival society and uncovers dangerous secrets about how it really works.
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Setting labels: flooded future · post-apocalyptic world · walled enclave · strict society · resource-scarce settlement · climate disaster · isolated community · sector-based society · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1047
In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.
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Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada
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Distance: 0.1068
