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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Swan Song.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic America, nuclear winter, cold war era, 1980s setting, wasteland, desolate landscape, sunless land, ruined cities, subway tunnels, military compound, Kansas, New York City, America
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a nuclear-ravaged America, survivors travel, regroup, and fight to build safety amid danger, secrets, and power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · nuclear winter · lawless roads · refugee camp · decaying cities · wasteland · our world · wartime aftermath · survival camp
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1406
An outlaw driver gets a pardon if he can haul plague medicine across a radioactive wasteland to Boston.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · nuclear wasteland · radioactive zones · coastal city-states · alternative future · ruined United States · battered interstate corridor
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1443
A girl searching for a cure and answers crosses a ruined America while a parallel fight for survival unfolds back home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · Manhattan · Long Island · Chicago · Denver · wasteland · ruins · toxic landscape · flooded city · deserted city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1460
Two journalist-authors cross a post-nuclear America five years after a limited war to document what survived.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · Cold War · 1980s · post-nuclear world · war-torn country · near-future · alternate future · EMP blackout · collapsed infrastructure · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1473
In a nuclear wasteland, soldiers face self-evolving war robots that can imitate humans—and may already be among them.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · Cold War era · moon base · war bunker · radioactive landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1480
A reporter and her dog trek through a collapsing alien-torn North America toward a rumored refuge in Alaska.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · North America · New York · Alaska · Arctic Circle · science facility · space station · isolated outpost · winter setting · cold climate · microclimate
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Distance: 0.1488
A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · radioactive wasteland · desert wasteland · scrapyard setting · ruined megacities · island setting · future Earth · corporate dystopia · post-nuclear future · slum setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1493
A father and son cross a burned-out America, clinging to each other and to a fragile code of goodness.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · burned America · ash-covered landscape · cold climate · grey wasteland · empty roads · abandoned towns · abandoned houses · rural wasteland · coastbound journey · winter setting · toxic air · desolate landscape
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1507
An 11-year-old girl survives a bio-nuclear apocalypse, then seeks others like her in a depopulated world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · depopulated America · fallout shelter · near-future · Cold War era · worldwide catastrophe · isolated survival setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1533
A lone martial artist crosses a nuclear wasteland, protecting the weak and crushing gangs with lethal pressure-point combat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic wasteland · nuclear fallout · barren dystopia · ruined cities · desert landscape · lawless world · gang-controlled society · 1980s-coded future · road-warrior world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1621
Interlinked stories follow families enduring a series of surreal apocalypses in a bleak, language-driven vision of America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: America · ruined America · post-apocalyptic world · unnamed locations · timeless setting · place-unspecified setting · dystopian landscape · wasteland · suburban collapse · familial domestic spaces
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1623
In a shattered future New York, a teen races through a brutal wasteland to rescue her kidnapped sister from death arenas.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York · Manhattan · Catskill Mountains · post-apocalyptic America · nuclear war aftermath · dystopian future · wilderness survival · ruined urban landscape · civil war aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1646
