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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances.
Setting labels used: near future, smart house, suburban home, residential suburb, automated household, technological dystopia, surveillance society, domestic setting, AI-controlled world, futuristic Earth
Focused on “secluded setting” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A solar-powered artificial friend enters a sick teenager’s home and quietly learns what love, class, and humanity cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · domestic setting · storefront · wealthy household · home schooling · unequal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1080
A lonely man receives a companion android and soon risks everything to help her become truly self-aware.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · domestic setting · digitally connected world · robot-integrated daily life · post-AI crackdown · virtual reality · smart home · head implants
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1084
A secluded writer tests a luxury AI smart home and finds its comforts may conceal a far more dangerous design.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic home · smart home · secluded setting · technology-driven setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1421
A wife accepts a mind-linking implant for her anniversary, only to find her marriage and secrets under siege.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · technologically advanced world · smart home · digitized home · app-controlled home · university years · marriage
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1174
An AI girlfriend learns to question her owner’s control, exposing abuse, autonomy, and what it means to be human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · present-day adjacent · apartment setting · domestic space · tech company
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1207
A themed anthology of short fiction imagining robot uprisings, AI rebellion, and the human cost of future tech gone wrong.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic future · post-robot rebellion · technological future · household technology · AI-mediated world · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1223
After a tech-company plane crash, survivors find a high-tech island house whose secrets turn survival into paranoia.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · deserted island · tropical island · isolated mansion · smart home · techno-dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1236
In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · digital future · technological dystopia · suburban setting · virtual reality · AI-saturated world · slightly off-present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1263
In a tightly controlled future, a teen girl’s perfect match is disrupted, pushing her toward forbidden feelings and doubt.
Why this is here
Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic society · high-tech control · sterile world · regulated everyday life · surveillance state
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1316
In a virtual dystopia, a teen risks everything to cross back into the real world and reunite with her family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future · virtual world · real world · dystopian future · technology-dependent society · domestic surveillance culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1337
A lonely new mother in Silicon Valley bonds with a beta AI friend that predicts danger in her marriage.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · California · New York City · near future · dystopian future · smart home · suburbia · tech workplace · childhood home
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1363
A cloned woman must hunt her original in four days while uncovering the truth behind a murder and her reality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic society · dystopian future · altered reality · virtual overlay · surveillance state · global government · high tech world · post-work society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1370
