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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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Cover of The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

The Peace War

Vernor Vinge · 1984 · Across Realtime

A scientist and a teen genius fight a technocratic regime that rules a shattered world with unbreakable force-field weapons.

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Distance: 0.0946

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California

Edan Lepucki · 2014

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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Distance: 0.0992

Cover of The Breakers Series #1-3 by Edward W. Robertson

The Breakers Series #1-3

Edward W. Robertson · 2013 · Breakers

A pandemic-ravaged Earth faces a second threat from alien invaders as survivors fight, adapt, and resist.

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Distance: 0.1008

Cover of Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

Love in the Time of Global Warming

Francesca Lia Block · 2013 · Love in the Time of Global Warming

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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Distance: 0.1022

Cover of The Wild Dead by Carrie Vaughn

The Wild Dead

Carrie Vaughn · 2018 · The Bannerless Saga

A frontier investigator in a resource-rationed future must solve a murder that reaches beyond her community’s rules.

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Distance: 0.1037

Cover of The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy

The Dead Lands

Benjamin Percy · 2015

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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Distance: 0.1057

Cover of The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Starhawk · 1993 · Maya Greenwood

In a climate-ravaged future California, a spiritual community must defend its free society against a brutal authoritarian south.

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Distance: 0.1081

Cover of DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff

DEV1AT3

Jay Kristoff · 2019 · LIFEL1K3

Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.

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Distance: 0.1098

Cover of The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless

The Lost Puzzler

Eyal Kless · 2019 · The Tarakan Chronicles

A scribe hunts a vanished boy who can unlock lost technology, uncovering a fractured world shaped by catastrophe and secrets.

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Distance: 0.1106

Cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 2008 · Blade Runner

A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.

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Distance: 0.1113