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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Radiant Dark.
Setting labels used: small town, Adirondacks, upstate New York, 1980s, alternate timeline, future timeline, space age, interstellar
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A teen empath must hunt a dangerous enemy while time fractures worsen and his own powers expand.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small-town setting · Southern setting · contemporary setting · time travel world · alternate timeline · space-time continuum
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1924
A prisoner gets a chance at freedom by time-traveling to assassinate a founder whose identity is hidden by a skull.
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Setting labels: future society · past timeline · 1960s · small town · Colorado · distant future · time travel setting · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1953
A space-obsessed girl’s childhood in NASA-era Florida collides with her adult mission to save humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s Florida · small town · Space Coast · NASA-adjacent town · future spacecraft · deep space · another planet · dying Earth · colonization era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2048
A pulp SF editor is blasted into a parallel world where his magazine fantasies are reality and getting home is perilous.
Why this is here
Setting labels: upstate New York · New York City · parallel universe · early 1950s · 1940s pulp era · solar system colonization · nighttime blackout city · spacefaring civilization · alternate history
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2058
A teenage future cop time-travels to 1986 New York to stop a corporation and uncover why her world may not exist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1986 New York City · alternate 2013 · high-tech future · dystopian future · 1980s urban setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2084
Four newspaper-delivery girls are swept through time, where strange factions, future selves, and Y2K chaos collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · prehistoric past · turn of the millennium · future · alternate timelines · time stream · suburban setting · historical fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2119
With a month left before an asteroid ends the world, a misfit teen hunts the truth behind her friend’s death.
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Setting labels: small town · coastal town · high school · pre-apocalyptic future · present-day contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2142
After collapse and fuel loss, an upstate New York town struggles to rebuild order, food supply, and community.
Why this is here
Setting labels: upstate New York · small town · post-apocalyptic · near future · post-industrial · rural · local economy · abandoned infrastructure · post-collapse America · colonial echo
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2156
A 22-story Bradbury collection blending sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and reflective human dramas across time and place.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Mars · space travel · small town Americana · middle America · 20th century America · future · past · present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2159
Four loosely linked novellas twist memory, weather, guns, and survival into unsettling, high-concept horror.
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Setting labels: 1980s · American settings · Silicon Valley · Boulder, Colorado · Colorado · coastal Florida · mall · suburban town · post-apocalyptic world · contemporary America · small town · skyborne setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2171
An alien girl raised on Earth sends faxed observations about humans while struggling to understand belonging and home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Philadelphia · New York City · United States · 1980s · late 1970s · early 21st century · Earth · outer space · distant planet · alternative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2177
An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2183
