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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Dinner at Deviant's Palace.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic California, nuclear-ravaged landscape, future Los Angeles, twenty-second century, dystopian future, ruined civilization, semi-medieval technology, radiation-scarred wasteland, neo-Californian civilization
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A screenwriter’s discarded script opens into a savage post-nuclear vision of a ruined America ruled by fear and cult belief.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · California · Southern California · Los Angeles · New Zealand · 21st century · after nuclear war · ruined civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0763
A scientist and a teen genius fight a technocratic regime that rules a shattered world with unbreakable force-field weapons.
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Setting labels: post apocalyptic Earth · California · near future · post war society · dystopian future · collapsed civilization · regressed technology · Cold War era future · authoritarian state · semi anarchic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0946
In a slow-collapsing near-future California, a married couple’s fragile wilderness life unravels after a pregnancy forces them toward a guarded community.
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Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles · wilderness · forest · remote settlement · gated communities · post-collapse America · post-apocalyptic world · near-future dystopia
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Distance: 0.0992
A pandemic-ravaged Earth faces a second threat from alien invaders as survivors fight, adapt, and resist.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · ruined America · New York · Los Angeles · upstate Idaho · Redding, California · Catalina Island · dystopian future · worldwide collapse · survivalist wilderness · ruins of cities
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Distance: 0.1008
A queer teen survives a Los Angeles apocalypse and sets out on a myth-inflected quest to find her missing family.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles · Southern California · modern day · wasteland · flooded city · surreal landscape · earthquake aftermath · tsunami aftermath
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Distance: 0.1022
A frontier investigator in a resource-rationed future must solve a murder that reaches beyond her community’s rules.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · post-collapse · future California · coastal frontier · isolated communities · marshland · estuary · outskirts · low-tech future · agrarian society · nomadic fringe · ruins · isolated settlement · ecological scarcity
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Distance: 0.1037
In a ruined America, two allies leave a fortress city after a stranger’s warning and cross a deadly wasteland westward.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined United States · walled city · former St. Louis · wasteland · dead lands · Oregon route · far future · dystopian future · irradiated landscape · mutated ecosystem
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Distance: 0.1057
In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · post-apocalyptic · California · San Francisco Bay Area · ecological collapse · fascist theocracy · alternative future · resource-scarce world
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Distance: 0.1081
Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)
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Distance: 0.1098
A scribe hunts a vanished boy who can unlock lost technology, uncovering a fractured world shaped by catastrophe and secrets.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ruined civilization · collapsed empire · wasteland · dead city · rural settlement · technology-scarce society · city ruins · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1106
A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · San Francisco · Mars colony · nuclear fallout · radioactive dust · off-world colonies · dystopian future · future Earth · blighted urban wasteland · post-war
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Distance: 0.1113
Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust
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Distance: 0.1125
