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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for City of Illusions.
Setting labels used: far future Earth, post-apocalyptic Earth, distant future, wilderness setting, sparsely populated world, ruined civilization, continent-spanning journey, forest community, city-state
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A mother searches a shattered world for her stolen child as an apocalyptic landscape and hidden powers collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future Earth · supercontinent · hostile climate · seismic world · post-apocalyptic · dying land · continent-scale setting · civilization after collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1035
A future archaeologist’s bid to prove a lost civilization exists collides with a wrecked marriage and a world remade by climate collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-crisis world · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · northern settlement · untouched wilderness · uncharted continent · climate-ravaged Earth
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1081
A dying telepathic ruler’s sons battle for succession in a brutal future where power, slavery, and mutation shape society.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic future · collapsed civilization · ruined cities · non-industrial society · feudal society · Earth · wilderness · mutant-infested hills
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1162
An exiled executioner continues through a far-future, myth-laced world with a mysterious relic and a story full of hidden clues.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · dying earth · decadent civilization · post-apocalyptic world · city-state · subterranean spaces · ruined city · ancient world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1238
In a brutal far-future kingdom, two mismatched fugitives flee into mutant-haunted wilderness after a mysterious infection upends their lives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · totalitarian kingdom · walled city · capital city · wilderness · outlands · mutant-infested landscape · alternate future · collapsed society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1238
When a hyper-advanced utopia collapses overnight, one smith in a surviving village becomes key to rebuilding and defending civilization.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-technological · preindustrial world · collapsed civilization · utopian future · Earth · small village · wilderness · medievalized future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1239
A far-future Earth’s last magicians and rogues scheme, quest, and betray each other beneath a dying red sun.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future Earth · dying sun · moonless sky · post-apocalyptic world · ancient ruins · decadent civilization · magic-saturated world · science and magic intertwined · rural backwaters · remote cities · other aeons · end-times setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1262
In a shattered future Earth, an outcast mother searches for her lost daughter amid cataclysm, power, and betrayal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · single continent · future Earth · cataclysmic seasons · geologically unstable world · nonhuman beings · ancient civilization · far future · low-tech survival · broken world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1265
A young man in a far-future post-apocalypse leaves his isolated community seeking love, truth, and sainthood.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · post-collapse society · isolated communities · ruined civilization · low-tech future · tribal society · pastoral future
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Distance: 0.1284
A crash-surviving space traveler crosses a climate-ravaged Earth, searching for her lost love amid outlaws, zealots, and guns.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · distant future · climate change · wasteland · desert landscape · frontier town · wild west · space western · scarred Earth · resource poor · lawless settlements · religious society · quasi-futuristic · analogue future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1302
In a far-future Earth turned into a corporate cemetery, an artist’s journey uncovers danger, ghosts, and buried truths.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · 10,000 years later · Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · ruined Earth · galactic civilization · planetary cemetery · wilderness versus controlled zone · pastoral landscape · corporate enclave
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1302
In a near-future world of rewilded forbidden zones, an adventure-racing team enters the deadliest one and finds nature fighting back.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · semi-apocalyptic world · global climate collapse · nature preserve · rewilded landscape · jungle setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1309
