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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Iron Garden Sutra.
Setting labels used: outer space, generation ship, derelict ship, overgrown ship, future spacefaring society, far future, ecological ship, cloistered setting, high claustrophobia
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A young outsider aboard a vast generation ship is pushed into mecha combat against alien monsters threatening humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: outer space · generation ship · colony ship · far future · post-apocalyptic future · shipboard society · claustrophobic interiors · open space · human-made space habitat · drifting ship
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0634
An amnesiac crewman aboard a failing generation ship uncovers secrets as the captain drives the mission deeper into space.
Why this is here
Setting labels: generation ship · deep space · interstellar travel · closed ecological system · claustrophobic setting · dilapidated ship · future spaceflight · planetary exploration
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0898
A stranded generation ship follows a mysterious signal and collides with a haunted alien mystery in deep space.
Why this is here
Setting labels: starship · generation ship · deep space · interplanetary voyage · planetfall · abandoned colony · alien spacecraft · claustrophobic setting · self-contained society · future spacefaring civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0921
A hostage-taking crew boards a quarantined spaceship, only to awaken a buried threat and a government secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space · abandoned spacecraft · generation ship · post-apocalyptic future · post-collapse future · dystopian future · orbiting ship · desert wastelands · moon travel · quarantine · closed setting · claustrophobic setting · microgravity · deep space
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1023
A queer acting captain must save a failing generation ship from mutiny and a hidden killer in deep space.
Why this is here
Setting labels: generation ship · deep space · claustrophobic setting · interstellar travel · failed colony aftermath · return to Earth · distant future · shipboard setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1088
A coerced linguist boards a doomed derelict ship to recover immortality data before rival factions and monsters destroy him.
Why this is here
Setting labels: deep space · far-future · derelict ship · abandoned spaceship · dying star · supernova deadline · space station · claustrophobic setting · spacefaring civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1099
Six cloned crew members wake on a crippled ship beside their murdered former bodies and must solve the crime before it repeats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: generation ship · spaceship · deep space · colonization mission · cryostasis · near future · future history · isolated vessel · interstellar voyage · claustrophobic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1103
A ship engineer battles a computer crisis while an interrogator questions a captured fugitive aboard a secret vessel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: spaceship · solar system · distant future · authoritarian future · closed setting · experimental vessel · military vessel · surveillance state · interplanetary society · claustrophobic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1159
A depressed metalworker on a failing generation ship is sent on a deadly mission to a toxic new planet.
Why this is here
Setting labels: generation ship · deep space · post-Earth · dystopian future · failing ships · toxic planet · off-world colony · spacefaring fleet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1181
After a station accident, one engineer must survive a deadly creature outbreak aboard a stranded spacecraft.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space station · spaceship · derelict vessel · deep space · isolated location · futuristic industrial setting · claustrophobic setting · blue-collar futurism · run-down station
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1216
A spaceship crew answers a distress call on an unknown planet and wakes a deadly alien threat aboard their ship.
Why this is here
Setting labels: spacecraft · cryogenic sleep · derelict alien ship · unknown planet · outer space · claustrophobic setting · future setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1246
Two teen leaders on rival generation ships are split apart when survival, faith, and power turn their voyage violent.
Why this is here
Setting labels: space ship · deep space · nebula · future · distant planet · Earth failing · generation ship · colony ship · self sufficient ship · space colonies · interplanetary voyage · post-collapse future · enclosed setting · claustrophobic setting · hardship in space · fictional future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1253
