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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag.
Setting labels used: New York City, post-9/11, early 2000s, urban politics
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A retired superhero turned New York mayor navigates politics, mystery, and the fallout of post-9/11 America.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern-day world · post-9/11 · early 2000s · alternate reality · contemporary America · urban political setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0913
A reluctant superhero with machine-control powers becomes New York’s mayor and faces politics, crises, and his own past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day real world · New York City · post-9/11 · early 2000s · alternate history · urban politics · municipal government
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0925
A young New Yorker becomes tied to a tattoo machine that exposes hidden truths, then faces its fallout over decades.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1960s · 1990s · 2000s · near future · alternate history · post-9/11 · urban · counterculture · apartment setting · real-world history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1640
A lazy New York teen researching smallpox for school thinks he may be infected and spirals into danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · modern day · post-9/11 · 2004 · private school · weekend house · urban setting · real-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1915
A homeless Black queer artist in New York is chosen to help the city be born and defend it from ancient threats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · modern day · urban setting · street-level reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1959
A tough future homicide detective investigates a senator’s daughter’s murder while falling for a billionaire suspect.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Washington politics · near future · 2058 · futuristic society · near-future tech · off-world elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2128
A near-future homicide detective hunts a vigilante killer targeting abusive men before more blood is spilled.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · near future · mid-21st century · futuristic society · police department · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2137
In a crowded future New York, a detective’s murder case opens into a bleak vision of scarcity, riots, and collapse.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · 1999 · near future · urban overcrowding · collapsed infrastructure · rationed city · resource-depleted world · dark future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2160
A young woman begins leaping through her own life out of order each New Year’s, forced to navigate love, memory, and fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · London · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · contemporary · decade shifts · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2166
A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · New York City · 1990s · early 2000s · near future · contemporary realism · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2168
A privileged New York girl’s diary records her family’s fall as a near-future city and country unravel around her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future Manhattan · New York City · alternate reality · urban dystopia · civil unrest · economic collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2177
During an alien invasion of New York, a teen discovers telekinetic powers and must choose how to fight.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Harlem · Financial District · urban invasion · contemporary Earth · near-future alien war
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2224
