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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.
Setting labels used: near future, future Shanghai, nanotech future, post-scarcity society, post-state world, tribal enclaves, phyles, neo-Victorian society, confucian society, cyberpunk future, postcyberpunk, underclass slums, globalized future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a deathless future run by AI, two teens are trained to choose who dies and must decide what justice means.
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Setting labels: futuristic world · post-mortal era · near future · dystopian future · utopian veneer · global society · planetary scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1217
A hitman is forced to target a rising cyborg religion in a grim near-future city ruled by a brutal police state.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · unified world · ruined city · New York · crapsack world · post-collapse society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1262
An astronaut returns to an Earth transformed by time and a peace-driven social experiment, and struggles to belong.
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Setting labels: Earth future · space travel · post-scarcity society · post-violence society · technological utopia · dystopian utopia · spacefaring civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1266
In a post-nuclear surveillance society, a propaganda man’s secret prank against the regime threatens his career and conscience.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near-future future · nuclear aftermath · urban future · colonies · state-controlled society · conformist society · panopticon
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1277
A gay proxy and his privileged patron collide in a debt-ridden dystopia, then flee a system built on punishment.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian future · post-collapse society · upper city · lower city · slum · wasteland · desert journey · technocratic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1280
A time-displaced Thomas More is sent to rescue a failing far-future utopia that may be broken by its own perfection.
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Setting labels: far future · distant planet · utopian society · slums · space travel · time travel · alternate future · technological society · post-scarcity society · dystopian underclass · colonized planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1282
An outlaw journalist returns to a corrupt future city and weaponizes truth, sarcasm, and violence against power.
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Setting labels: future city · dystopian future · cyberpunk future · transhumanist future · hyper-capitalist society · media-saturated world · urban megacity
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1292
A cyborg writer posing as AI races against debt, deadlines, and a draining battery in a corporate dystopia.
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Setting labels: future city · cyberpunk city · dystopian future · corporate dystopia · late capitalism · megacorp control · working-class precarity · slums
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1294
A data courier with a brain implant must outrun criminals and recover stolen secrets before the information destroys him.
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Setting labels: near future · future Japan · Beijing · United States · cyberpunk future · dystopian future · high-tech wasteland · urban future · twenty-first century · globalized future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1299
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1323
Seven bleak, prescient sci-fi stories trace alienation, gender, and numbness in futures that feel eerily present.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · Tokyo · space colonization · interplanetary · alien worlds · matriarchal society · future Earth · cybernetic future
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Distance: 0.1329
In a near-future society shaped by nanotech therapy, a murder case and an AI awakening probe expose identity, justice, and consciousness.
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Setting labels: near future · 2047 · future Los Angeles · Alpha Centauri · Hispaniola · digital millennium · near-future Earth · post-crime society · technologically altered society · dystopian future · nanotech future · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1339
