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Setting labels used: 17th century Europe, early 18th century, Restoration England, late Baroque period, Royal Society, Amsterdam, Vienna, France, Holland, Boston, Ottoman Empire, colonial America, early modern Europe, real-history setting
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A restless scholar moves through Restoration-era science, politics, and intrigue as modern thought begins to take shape.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 17th century England · early 18th century · London · Cambridge · Boston · Massachusetts Bay Colony · Baroque era · Restoration England · colonial North America · Enlightenment · historical world
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Distance: 0.1017
Two interwoven 17th-century adventures span courts, oceans, science, and money as lovers, rogues, and thinkers race through upheaval.
Why this is here
Setting labels: late 17th century · early 18th century · Baroque era · European courts · global trade routes · Mediterranean · North Africa · India · East Asia · New World · colonial world · transatlantic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1473
A time-displaced West Virginia town navigates war, diplomacy, and state-building in 17th-century Europe.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 17th century Europe · Thirty Years' War · central Europe · Germany · England · Holland · France · Amsterdam · London · historical alt-world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1480
Ten uncanny stories blur history, fantasy, and sci-fi to ask what makes reality feel strange.
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Setting labels: 17th century · historical setting · contemporary setting · future setting · imagined worlds · Poland · Europe · war setting · remote frontier · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1808
In 17th-century Venice, a sharp-tongued wife is drawn into a secret gamehouse where real people become pieces in a city-sized contest.
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Setting labels: 17th century Venice · early 17th century · Renaissance Venice · historical setting · cosmopolitan city · urban intrigue · secret venue
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Distance: 0.1861
A time-displaced American town helps reshape 17th-century Europe as war, diplomacy, and rescue missions collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 17th century Europe · Thirty Years War · Baltic theater · Lübeck · London · Amsterdam · Copenhagen · Germany · alternate history world · time displacement
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Distance: 0.1862
An alternate history where Vikings arm the Americas, Columbus fails, and the Inca invade Renaissance Europe.
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Setting labels: 16th century Europe · Renaissance Europe · Iberian Peninsula · Atlantic crossing · Caribbean · Greenland · Americas · Old World/New World inversion · early modern period · Mediterranean world
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Distance: 0.1877
A trainee time-police team tackles illegal temporal tourism, undercover danger, and a widening conspiracy.
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Setting labels: future · time travel setting · historical eras · 17th century London · 17th century · Versailles · Ice Age · Restoration England · future headquarters · Battersea Power Station · alternate future · contemporary future · historical timeline
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1930
At Louis XIV’s Versailles, a sheltered young woman tries to save a captive sea creature the king wants for immortality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: seventeenth-century France · Versailles · Louis XIV court · French monarchy · royal menagerie · historical alternate world · Catholic court · French colony background
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Distance: 0.2065
A sprawling 17th-century fantasy saga follows humans and nonhumans as royal power, prophecy, and love collide.
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Setting labels: 17th century · fictional kingdom · royal court · military world · aristocratic society · multi-kingdom setting · fantasy world · hidden supernatural society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2093
A traveler describes a rigorously ordered sun-city where knowledge, religion, labor, and reproduction are all collectively controlled.
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Setting labels: Renaissance · 17th century · early modern · fictional city · island society · distant East · Taprobana · monastic society · theocratic state · astrology-centered world
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Distance: 0.2133
A young researcher uncovers a hidden race of clockwork beings and gets pulled into their centuries-old war.
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Setting labels: modern day · 1700s Russia · Oregon · London · Europe · worldwide · alternate history · hidden world · ancient past · historical settings
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2137
