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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Border Princes.
Setting labels used: Cardiff, contemporary setting, urban fantasy, secret base, underwater tower, rift-connected reality, alternate-history anomaly, small-scale urban setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Torchwood tracks a grisly Cardiff murder spree while floods rise and a teammate vanishes into a virtual-world side mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cardiff · Wales · rainy city · army base · underwater bay · secret underground base · contemporary setting · alien-invaded world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1493
Torchwood investigates a cursed Cardiff neighborhood tied to an old enemy, future visions, and Jack's limits.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cardiff · urban Cardiff · renovation project · gentrifying neighborhood · rundown streets · rift-linked reality · contemporary setting · alternate future · World War II era · model housing · Wales
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2127
After a deadly accident, Erin discovers a hidden immortal gene and is dragged into a war for her life and loyalty.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban setting · contemporary setting · secret world · hidden society · near-present day · supernatural reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2356
An accountant is recruited into a secret monster-hunting company after killing his werewolf boss.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate earth · hidden supernatural world · secret government knowledge · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2445
Five brilliant specialists unleash an experiment that warps reality, and must face the strange fallout years later.
Why this is here
Setting labels: British setting · contemporary setting · near future · urban present · alternate reality · haunted present · technological reality · mythic Britain · modern world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2460
A hidden-city detective journeys into the past to uncover his world’s origin and stop his own mother from destroying it.
Why this is here
Setting labels: hidden London · parallel city · alternate reality · urban supernatural · timeless realm · historical Nightside · past and future · mythic world · time travel setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2461
A Nightside PI races to stop his world-ending mother from remaking a hidden city—and dooming everything else.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · hidden city · alternate reality · parallel world · night setting · liminal city · urban fantasy setting · mythic city · corrupt city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2495
Rival riverboats race upriver through a resurrected world, seeking the tower and the truth behind humanity’s return.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alien planet · single river world · river valley · North Sea · tower · resurrected afterlife · alternate reality · science fantasy setting · postmortem world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2537
A varied collection of eerie, whimsical short fiction and poems, often with twists, homages, and unsettling turns.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · fantasy worlds · ghost story settings · urban legend · Scottish settings · British settings · ancient city · mythic setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2540
A punk teen is pulled into a secret occult war across time, identities, and revolutions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · French Revolution · multiple time periods · alternate realities · secret world · occult reality · street-level urban setting · historical fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2550
A world-saving adventurer tries to quit destiny by killing her fairy godmother and claiming an ordinary life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary fantasy · urban setting · alternate realities · outer space · time travel · multiverse · Earth · fantastical reality · secret conspiracies
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2569
When a London bank’s strange algorithm sparks vampire-like symptoms, Bob Howard’s secret agency must confront what it insists cannot exist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · Canary Wharf · British government · financial district · contemporary · occult Britain · secret-history world · urban fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2584
