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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for All Better Now.
Setting labels used: near future, post-covid world, global pandemic, contemporary world, worldwide crisis
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
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: 0.1003
A genetic code, a hidden project, and a global conspiracy collide as old secrets threaten humanity’s future.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary · global · international · post-pandemic world · Arctic · Australia · United States · Berlin · virtual world · alternate reality · human genome
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Distance: 0.1213
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: 0.1291
A Sleepless journalist probes his boss’s death in a near-future world where sleeplessness reshapes power, work, and memory.
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Setting labels: 2043 · Near future · New York City · Post-pandemic world · Corporate media world · Speculative future · Cyberpunk cityscape · Global pandemic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1309
A reclusive artist crosses a ruined Europe with two sisters while scientists raise an AI to predict humanity’s fate.
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Setting labels: post-pandemic Europe · near future · London · countryside refuge · Arctic Circle · Africa-bound journey · post-apocalyptic world · global pandemic setting
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Distance: 0.1329
An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.
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Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future
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Distance: 0.1340
A poetic future-past novel follows a group of friends as plague, politics, and grief drive humanity toward extinction.
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Setting labels: late 21st century · future England · Europe · post-monarchy republic · global pandemic world · technologically static future · post-collapse
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Distance: 0.1361
In a beauty-obsessed world, an STD grants perfection to those infected—until deadly consequences spark a conspiracy chase.
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Setting labels: modern society · contemporary setting · near-present world · pandemic setting · urban setting · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.1425
An Army officer narrates a near-future collapse sparked by pandemic and climate disaster while trying to get his troops home.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · Middle East · Iran · global setting · pandemic era · climate crisis · wartime logistics
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Distance: 0.1452
In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.
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Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living
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Distance: 0.1593
A near-future climate thriller follows an audacious geoengineering scheme and the global chaos it unleashes.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · global setting · Texas · Netherlands · India · China border · Himalayas · West Texas · Punjab · Hague · Chihuahuan Desert · Papua New Guinea · London · Venice · New Guinea · global warming future · geoengineered future
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Distance: 0.1636
A teen illusionist thief joins superpowered criminals on a dangerous hunt for the vaccine formula that made them outlaws.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · post-pandemic · dystopian society · real world · underground crime · government surveillance · urban setting · post-apocalyptic · pandemic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1636
