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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Forest on the Edge of Time.
Setting labels used: Ancient Athens, ancient Greece, 514 BCE Athens, 2020 London, COVID lockdown, dystopian future, post-apocalyptic future, polluted island, research station, laboratory, near-future Earth, shared dreamscape, liminal space, between times
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In a fear-only future, a fugitive discovers blood that restores emotion and may awaken all humanity.
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Setting labels: future earth · post-apocalyptic world · medieval future · alternate future · dystopian society · archaic society · capital city · Rome-derived future city · Byzantium
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Distance: 0.2079
A novice time-tour guide gets swept into Byzantine excursions, paradoxes, and forbidden entanglements with the past.
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Setting labels: mid-21st century future · Byzantium · Constantinople · historical past · commercialized time travel world · tourist industry
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Distance: 0.2089
An episodic deep-time saga follows a primate lineage from dinosaur age survival to humanity’s far future.
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Setting labels: prehistoric Earth · modern Earth · far future · deep time · distant future · geologic eras · dinosaur age · posthuman future · speculative future Earth
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Distance: 0.2102
A near-future investigator hunts a missing coder in a hologram-saturated world where bodies, identities, and AI blur.
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Setting labels: late 21st century · 2088 · London · Paris · Europe · near future · post-climate crisis · post-pandemic · digitally mediated world · holographic reality
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Distance: 0.2125
In a ruined future where time only moves forward, Jules and a mysterious traveler race to wake her coma-struck love.
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Setting labels: 2083 · future London · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · wasteland · time-travel society · forward-only travel · collapsing civilization · multiple centuries · end of time · future wasteland
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Distance: 0.2132
A cryogenically revived shuttle pilot confronts a transformed future Earth, a vanished wife, and a solar-system-scale mystery.
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Setting labels: mid-21st century · 25th century · future Earth · post-climate-change Earth · solar system · Mars moon · Phobos · alternate reality · deep time · birth of the solar system
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Distance: 0.2150
A science-loving girl lands a summer time-travel internship and must compete with kids from across history to save a museum.
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Setting labels: Earth history · across time · past present future · museum setting · outside time · ancient Rome · future Japan · future London · Jurassic era · human history
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Distance: 0.2153
A multiverse quest for a hidden map sends Kit, Mina, and allies racing through time, worlds, and danger.
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Setting labels: multiverse · alternate realities · time travel · London · Prague · Egypt · Stone Age · seventeenth-century Prague · Medieval Oxford · Ancient Etrusca · Ice Age Europe · historical settings · ancient history
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Distance: 0.2168
A poetic future-past novel follows a group of friends as plague, politics, and grief drive humanity toward extinction.
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Setting labels: late 21st century · future England · Europe · post-monarchy republic · global pandemic world · technologically static future · post-collapse
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Distance: 0.2182
In 2141, Earth and Mars face linked crises as scientists probe a strange pathogen and Martian-born colonists edge toward revolt.
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Setting labels: 2141 · 22nd century · Earth · Mars · orbital station · near future · colonized Mars · two-planet world · dystopian future · post-pandemic world · post-crisis world · ecological collapse · alternate future · spacefaring civilization
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Distance: 0.2210
In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.
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Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living
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Distance: 0.2221
Alien archaeologists excavate Olduvai Gorge and uncover seven artifacts that reveal humanity’s rise, ruin, and legacy.
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Setting labels: far future · post-extinction Earth · Olduvai Gorge · Tanzania · ancient past · galactic civilization · Earth as archaeological site
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Distance: 0.2224
