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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Mania.
Setting labels used: alternate America, near future, contemporary setting, small-town America, university setting, media world, home and family setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A short story collection using surreal satire to probe consumerism, media, fear, and fragile humanity in American life.
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Setting labels: American settings · suburban America · urban America · near future · alternative reality · consumerist dystopia · media-saturated world · late-capitalist world · contemporary America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1105
A grieving mother slips into a near-identical life where her dead son is alive and everything feels unsettlingly familiar.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · New York · university setting · family home · road trip · alternate reality · parallel universe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1229
A late-career Bradbury collection of 21 short, fantastical tales blending nostalgia, wonder, menace, and wit.
Why this is here
Setting labels: American settings · small-town America · nostalgic past · contemporary pastiche · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1261
In a future America that controls girls through chaperones, one teen starts questioning everything after a sudden death.
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Setting labels: New America · near future · dystopian future · alternate America · post-secession America · patriarchal society · gender-segregated society · high school setting · library setting · road trip setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1319
A satirical dystopia follows a violent American revolution that splits society into separate nations by identity.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · alternate society · dystopian future · internet age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1396
A punished teen from a surveilled future is exiled to 1950s Wisconsin, where identity, love, and reality blur.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future America · North American States · 1950s Wisconsin · university setting · campus setting · small college town · post-9/11 future · Cold War era · dystopian society · alternate America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1399
A first-person barrage of absurd, hyper-referential vignettes where plot yields to wordplay, satire, and manic invention.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · 1990s culture · American setting · media-saturated world · cyberpunk world · futuristic world · alternate reality · semi-scientific reality · dystopian future · urban America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1413
A fractured found-family road trip across alternate worlds becomes one last chance to save a lost love and a dying reality.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · alternate realities · parallel worlds · multiverse · primary world · road movie setting · college setting · urban setting · post-apocalyptic world · American road
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1413
A collection of brief, funny, unsettling speculative stories where everyday life meets impossible ideas and sharp social satire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: real-world setting · near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · alternate reality · American setting · rural setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1415
In a modern alternate universe, mutant youths gather under Xavier while Magneto and the government push the world toward war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate universe · modern America · Earth-like world · secret-government world · school setting · global setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1427
A self-mythologizing novelist spirals through celebrity, excess, and absurdist satire in a manic faux-autobiography.
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Setting labels: contemporary United States · alternate reality · celebrity world · media-saturated · futuristic elements · pop-culture landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1475
In a world where two souls share one body, a hidden girl must risk everything for a chance to move and live openly.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate reality · dystopian future · government clinic · hospital setting · school setting · institutional setting · near-future America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1522
