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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Sparrow.
Setting labels used: near future, 2019, 2059, space mission, alien planet, Alpha Centauri, Earth, Vatican, Italy, Puerto Rico, interstellar
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A child refugee on an old spaceship journals the first fragile years of life on a newly found planet.
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Setting labels: future Earth · interstellar voyage · alien planet · new colony · spacecraft · far future
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Distance: 0.1594
A widow, a space crew, and a posthuman investigator are drawn through overlapping times toward a mysterious cosmic anomaly.
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Setting labels: near-future Earth · far future · space colonies · interstellar space · alien megastructure · cosmic frontier
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1745
A near-future moon discovery of a 50,000-year-old human body launches a deep scientific mystery.
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Setting labels: near future · 2020s · 2027-2029 · solar system · Moon · Ganymede · spacefaring future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1779
Earth is pulled into an alien war and must race to build a fighting force before a brutal invader reaches home.
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Setting labels: near future · early 2000s · Earth · space warfare · alien planets · interstellar setting · military future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1784
A retiring environmental officer is sent on a secret mission to a contested alien world where ecology, politics, and survival collide.
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Setting labels: far future · late 23rd century · distant planet · interstellar space · alien system · human colony · ecological world · scientific expedition
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Distance: 0.1806
Aliens seek human “witnesses” for an ancient wrong, and the revelation on distant worlds upends Earth.
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Setting labels: near future · moon base · interstellar travel · alternate past · other human worlds · binary planets · spacefaring future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1819
Two astronauts on a near-future mission to Enceladus search for life while isolation, risk, and doubt mount.
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Setting labels: near future · Saturn moon · Enceladus · space mission · subsurface ocean · deep sea · Earth · outer space · climate catastrophe future
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Distance: 0.1830
A human mission to contact an alien civilization turns into a bleak test of intelligence, bias, and survival.
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Setting labels: mid-21st century · future Earth · deep space · Titan · Quinta · alien planet · solar system · black hole travel · interstellar mission · hard SF future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1837
A jazz pianist and a pop star are swept into a queer mecha war when one giant robot decides humanity should be saved.
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Setting labels: far future · Earth · space colonies · Monaco · interstellar · apocalyptic · technological future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1838
A human soldier is swept into an alien war and discovers the conflict is far murkier than anyone told him.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · space · alien planet · interstellar war · military base · planetary colony · universe with multiple alien species
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Distance: 0.1840
A near-future science team funds its interstellar research by streaming sex with aliens to a bored Earth.
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Setting labels: near future · spacefaring future · alien planets · Earth · teleportation travel · first contact aftermath · mid-21st century future
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Distance: 0.1850
A looming solar catastrophe forces humanity to unite, invent, and race to survive an alien-planned extinction event.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · 2037 · 2042 · space stations · Moon · solar system · hard SF future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1854
