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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Meet Me at Blue Hour.
Setting labels used: Busan, South Korea, Korean Canadian, summer setting, contemporary setting, near-future setting, memory clinic, clinic study
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A Korean-Canadian teen with scent-triggered time slips goes to Korea to uncover her mother’s disappearance and her own past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · Korea · South Korea · Vancouver · Korean-Canadian diaspora · our world with one speculative element
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2256
A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.
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Setting labels: contemporary Egypt · medical setting · clinic · laboratory · urban setting · rural villa · nonlinear time · multiple lives · past lives · scientific experimental setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2534
A memory-erasure company’s fallout forces strangers to decide whether forgotten pain is better left buried or restored.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · contemporary world · London · Arizona desert · Kuala Lumpur · England · UK · global travel · memory clinic · corporate setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2610
A bored office worker guards a cabinet of files on bizarre human anomalies and gets pulled into their strange world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Seoul · modern Korea · office setting · research institute · urban alienation · contemporary world · unnamed workplace
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2631
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An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japanese setting · government laboratory · secret facility · urban setting · contemporary setting · science fiction reality · speculative biology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2689
A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2705
When human time stops but nature keeps moving, six lives are forced to confront birth, death, love, and meaning.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · summer setting · June setting · worldwide · realist world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2711
An adopted AI child in a near-future world confronts identity, family, and control as her strange origins unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · future Korea · United States · South Korea · Texas · dystopian-leaning future · high school · corporate-controlled world · post-birth decline · science-fiction reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2743
A young psychologist is assigned to a rare psychiatric case, and the patient and hospital secrets quickly entangle them both.
Why this is here
Setting labels: hospital setting · psych ward · single-location setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2748
A grieving teen is pulled into a time-travel mystery that forces her to confront a past she wants to forget.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · past and present · multiple decades · cross-temporal · hospital setting · international travel · Thailand · time-travel world · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2755
A Korean-American girl discovers her family’s food can open memories and time, revealing secrets that change everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Korean-American family · past memories · memory orchard · time-travel fantasy world · traditional Korean settings · intergenerational household
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2764
After an earthquake fractures time in Japan, a grieving teen searches the zones for her missing mother and father.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japan · contemporary Japan · post-earthquake Japan · time zones · liminal spaces · abandoned zones · rural hometown · Tokyo · scientific research spaces · nature-tinged setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2783
