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Setting labels used: contemporary America, afterlife, heaven, speculative reality, near future
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A father is involuntarily thrust forward through time in ever-longer leaps, as his son races to bring him back.
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Setting labels: contemporary America · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic future · utopian future · dystopian future · deep time · Earth
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Distance: 0.1201
A ghostly trio races across the afterlife to replace an absent Good and rescue a stolen child in a final divine quest.
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Setting labels: Afterlife · Heaven · Hell · mortal world · mythic reality · contemporary
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Distance: 0.1396
A themed best-of anthology of Harlan Ellison’s short fiction, mixing iconic SF, horror, and surreal, unsettling tales.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · alternative reality · mythic space · afterlife · city life · time-bending
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Distance: 0.1454
A college student’s research into a mythic heroine pulls her into an occult, reality-bending role as Promethea.
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Setting labels: futuristic New York · alternate reality · near-future · metaphysical realm · afterlife · collective unconscious · mythic reality
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Distance: 0.1499
A curated anthology of 20 standout-and-divisive 2015 science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen blind by Joe Hill.
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Setting labels: contemporary anthology · American setting · speculative realities
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Distance: 0.1530
A time-reset science fiction premise becomes a metafictional, memoir-like farewell about free will, memory, and being human.
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Setting labels: United States · New York City · 1990s · early 2000s · near future · contemporary realism · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.1560
A Black designer and a protest artist clash over tech, memory, and anti-racist rebellion in a fragmented speculative future.
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Setting labels: near future · contemporary future · diasporic Black futures · speculative reality
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Distance: 0.1583
Forty brief afterlife vignettes turn death into a set of witty, unsettling thought experiments about life and self.
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Setting labels: afterlife · heaven · hell · metaphysical · cosmic · dreamlike · alternate realities · future-oriented · human world reflection
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Distance: 0.1583
In a world where angels, Heaven, and Hell are visibly real, one man seeks reunion and faith after tragedy.
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Setting labels: alternate Earth · contemporary world · physical Heaven and Hell · visible afterlife · angelic incursions · world where religion is empirical
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Distance: 0.1618
A satirical multiverse trilogy where shifting realities, sex, politics, and quantum ideas collide in a wildly fractured world.
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Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel universes · multiverse · future America · contemporary America · global politics · science fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1625
In a reversed-time dystopia, a resurrection business races rival powers to control a returning prophet.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · dystopian future · divided United States · graveyards · libraries · cemeteries · private businesses · authoritarian information control · reverse-chronology reality
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Distance: 0.1686
A dream-crossing man races to stop a global virus while a forbidden love threatens the fate of another world.
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Setting labels: modern world · future world · alternate reality · dream world · two realities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1715
