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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for After World.
Setting labels used: near future, post-apocalyptic world, earth after humans, upstate New York, cabin, virtual world, digital archive, rewilding landscape
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An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · United States · New York City · New York Botanical Gardens · ruins · collapsed society · shared human-machine world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1230
A grim hitman with a code hunts a runaway girl in bombed-out future New York split between streets and virtual escape.
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Setting labels: near future · future New York · post-apocalyptic city · dirty bomb aftermath · localized apocalypse · urban ruin · virtual reality world · cyberspace · limnosphere
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1346
In a ruined future, a world designer investigates deadly glitches inside the virtual realities everyone depends on.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate collapse · virtual reality · dystopian future · capsule life · uninhabitable Earth · computer-simulated worlds · digital worldscape · alternative realities · futuristic society
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Distance: 0.1367
A near-future story collection imagines tech-saturated lives where virtual reality, AI, and climate collapse reshape family and identity.
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Setting labels: near future · not-too-distant future · tech-saturated world · virtual reality world · post-apocalyptic world · post-collapse landscape · climate-ravaged world · ice age world · digital society
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Distance: 0.1385
Exiled from a sheltered dome, a teenage girl must survive the wasteland with a hostile outsider to find her mother.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · sealed domes · virtual reality · wasteland · tribal outside world · dangerous climate · distant future
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Distance: 0.1461
A long-awaited finale sends Elspeth into the Red Land to stop catastrophe and decide what freedom will cost.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · imaginary places · lost community · red land · habitat · beforetime future · dystopian landscape · walled community
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Distance: 0.1474
In a corporate-dominated future, a Jewish free town trains a cyborg protector while an old golem story echoes their fate.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · corporate enclaves · free town · Jewish community · cyberspace · virtual reality · alternate Prague · historic Prague · ecological collapse · climate-damaged world · domed habitat · radiation-scarred Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1486
A linked speculative-fiction collection on memory, identity, technology, and family, spanning history, futures, and the Singularity.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · post-singularity · post-apocalyptic · alternate future · historical fiction · World War II · alien planet · virtual world · digital world · contemporary internet
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Distance: 0.1491
In a near-future net-zero world, a teen and her father search for her missing mother as old climate wounds reopen.
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Setting labels: near future · post-climate crisis · post-apocalyptic · post-transition · net-zero society · future Earth · Greenland · Nuuk · New York City · global
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Distance: 0.1530
An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · utopian · near-future · future worlds · spacefaring · virtual reality · alternative reality · Earth-bound · off-world
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Distance: 0.1541
In a post-climate-collapse future, an archive keeper is pulled into espionage over forbidden knowledge and the future of humanity.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · ecological collapse · religious future society · reclaimed civilization · urban ruins · forest refuge · archive spaces
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1546
A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1568
