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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Aisle Nine.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, retail store, big-box store, discount mart, Black Friday, recognizably 2024, mundane apocalypse, worldwide portals
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In a plastic dystopia of VR, surveillance, and eco-terrorism, one grieving woman starts to question her world and her past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: plastic world · post-nuclear world · surveillance state · virtual world · retail workplace · futuristic dystopia · alternate reality · post-apocalyptic future
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Distance: 0.2437
A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.
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Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse
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Distance: 0.2513
A post-COVID rage plague gives an abused mother a dangerous chance to free herself and protect her daughters.
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Setting labels: post-COVID world · near future · 2025 · Florida · United States · pandemic world · quarantine · warm climates · suburban home · gated community · big box store
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Distance: 0.2525
A fugitive teen discovers latent powers and is recruited into a brutal training program for a hidden war.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · near future · futuristic academy · training headquarters · secret facility · world war · global war · abandoned store
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Distance: 0.2527
In a plague-ravaged world where women are nearly gone, a lone survivor is captured by men and pulled into a dangerous mission.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · ruined world · clans · survival camp · abandoned mall · forest · city ruins · not-too-distant future
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Distance: 0.2546
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
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Distance: 0.2559
On the run after escaping captivity, Rhine and Gabriel face new horrors while racing toward Manhattan and a missing brother.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dilapidated carnival · mansion captivity · road journey · Manhattan · grim dystopia · future society · real world outside the mansion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2578
Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse
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Distance: 0.2581
An overpowered survivor races to protect his island, find his family, and outmaneuver a hostile System in a collapsing multiverse.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · multiverse · island base · new world order · public portal network · unknown islands · undead territory · system-governed world
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Distance: 0.2615
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: 0.2618
Scooby and the gang keep surviving a monster-filled apocalypse while unraveling the plague’s source and their own secrets.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · monster-plague earth · wasteland · mall setting · hospital setting · road travel · Seattle · survival world · dystopian reality
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Distance: 0.2628
A quarantined mall descends deeper into chaos as teens, leaders, and rivals struggle for survival, control, and trust.
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Setting labels: quarantined mall · shopping mall · confined setting · post-riot setting · dystopian setting · pandemic setting · infirmary · home stores
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2651
