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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Dividing Sky.
Setting labels used: near future, futuristic city, dystopian future, corporate state, privatized society, hypercapitalist world, metro city, wilderness, no-man's-land
Focused on “near future” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An outlaw journalist races to expose a corrupt president in a profane, darkly funny near-future political satire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Near future · Dystopian future · Hyper-urban city · Decaying metropolis · Political future · Technological future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0782
A resourceful young woman from a trash-city joins a reality contest for a seat on humanity’s first manned Mars mission.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · Earth · Mars mission · industrial waste city · landfill city · corporate state · private enterprise · space travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0930
A mercenary, a hacker, and an art dealer are drawn into a corporate-cybernetic conspiracy in the Sprawl.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · corporate-controlled world · urban megacity · cyberspace · virtual reality · global economy · Sprawl
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0986
A hyper-detailed dystopian sci-fi comic where a suburban man, a killer tax collector, and a robot may be one being.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · near future · future Los Angeles · urban wasteland · crowded metropolis · suburban home · corporate city · smog-choked city · cyberpunk reality · mechanized society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0988
A sick girl and her mother join a wilderness experiment in a climate-ravaged future, testing survival, rules, and bonds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate crisis · overcrowded city · polluted city · protected wilderness · nomadic camp life · wilderness reserve
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1018
In a corporate-run future, a hapless employee and a government agent collide over a murderous marketing stunt.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate Earth · corporate state · privatized society · globalized world · United States-dominated world · Australia · London · Los Angeles · runaway capitalism · near-dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1026
An ex-cop junkie in a vertical cyberpunk city rescues human clones and is dragged back into his own buried past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · city-sized mall · vertical city · cloning farm · corporate state · alternate dimension · surreal otherworld
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1046
A new hire and an undercover spy enter a mega-corporation’s live-work city and uncover the cost of total convenience.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1053
In a corporate-run near future, a declassed police “dog” investigates a murder that drags his buried past back up.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian city · privatized state · corporate regime · zone system · polluted urban future · climate crisis · domed city · post-national future · future Greece
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1073
In a mutated near-future world, a submissive anomaly is collared for protection by his boss and pursued by another dominant.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate universe · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · corporate workplace · global corporation · food supply crisis · legal repression
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1085
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1087
A teen artist surviving alien colonization turns to art and performative romance to keep his family afloat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Earth · alien-occupied Earth · dystopian future · post-automation society · lower-class hardship · floating wealth enclaves
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1117
