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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart.
Setting labels used: mid-21st century, near future, post-collapse, dystopian future, Kansas City, anarchist commune, urban ruin, corporate dystopia, climate-disaster future, post-apocalyptic USA
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A family enters a supposedly perfect company town where safety, privilege, and belonging come with eerie rules.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · environmental collapse · climate collapse · post-apocalyptic · corporate town · sealed community · walled-off enclave · dying world · polluted world · suburban setting · American suburbia · nuclear threat · underground shelter
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Distance: 0.0889
A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.0933
A future oral history of how collapse, revolt, and mutual aid built a post-capitalist New York commune.
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Setting labels: near future · late 21st century · future New York City · post-capitalist world · post-revolutionary world · global collapse · climate catastrophe · civil war · commune society · post-apocalyptic setting
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Distance: 0.0942
In a plague-ravaged future, survivors and bioengineered Crakers rebuild meaning through stories, memory, and uneasy alliances.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · survival commune · ravaged landscape · eco-collapse · north American future
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Distance: 0.0959
A trans academic surveys an isolated woods commune in a dystopian future, but his assignment and desires unravel into horror.
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Setting labels: near future · post-collapse America · dystopian city-state · New York future · Catskills · woods · commune · exurb zone · walled city · post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.0973
A sheltered girl in a flooded future city uncovers family secrets, folklore, and a mysterious neighbor’s hidden life.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · flooded city · partially submerged city · island city · apartment tower · high-rise building · climate catastrophe · urban decay · alternate world
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Distance: 0.1013
A hitman is forced to target a rising cyborg religion in a grim near-future city ruled by a brutal police state.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · unified world · ruined city · New York · crapsack world · post-collapse society
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Distance: 0.1068
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
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Distance: 0.1078
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
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Distance: 0.1081
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate change · corporate compound · warehouse city · company town · closed ecosystem · desert landscape · ravaged America · uninhabitable outside world · surveilled workplace · live-work community
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Distance: 0.1085
A debt-ridden baseball scout hunts his brother’s killer in a corporate, body-modified near future.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath · corporate America · New York City · high-tech society · neo-industrial future · smog-choked city · biotech future
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Distance: 0.1112
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
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Distance: 0.1124
