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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Setting labels used: Earth, Kentucky, 1980s, near future, Cold War era, distant planet, planetary collapse
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
When a mysterious signal points to an alien craft near Jupiter, scientists and governments race toward first contact.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · Cold War era · Solar System · Earth · Jupiter · space station · university observatory · USSR-USA tensions · near-future 1980s
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Distance: 0.1525
An astronaut is remade into a cyborg to survive Mars, while the project’s human, political, and hidden costs mount.
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Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · Cold War era · nuclear brinkmanship · post-crisis world · United States · Oklahoma · space program · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1556
An impoverished asteroid miner becomes a living-metal host to alien tech, forcing a tense fight over humanity’s future.
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Setting labels: near future · space mining · asteroid belt · future Earth · solar system · global warming · cold war
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Distance: 0.1690
A near-future alien invasion turns Earth into a global war zone, forcing humans and a deeply alien foe to misread each other.
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Setting labels: mid-1980s · near future · Cold War · Earth · United States · Soviet Union · space station · mothership · global setting
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Distance: 0.1720
A mysterious hollow asteroid in Earth orbit becomes the battleground for science, geopolitics, and a warning from the future.
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Setting labels: near future · early 21st century · Earth orbit · cold war era · space habitat · alternate universe · far future · posthuman future
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Distance: 0.1733
When benevolent aliens impose peace on Earth, humanity gains utopia—at a mysterious cost to its future.
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Setting labels: Earth · mid-20th century future · global scale · spacefaring era · postwar context · futuristic Earth
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Distance: 0.1754
Seventeen Ray Bradbury stories of rockets, time travel, and strange worlds, centered on wonder, yearning, and loss.
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Setting labels: Earth · Mars · Venus · distant future · 1950s imagined future · early space age · other planets
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Distance: 0.1811
Nine near-future stories explore AI, prediction, math, work, and humanity’s changing place in a technological future.
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Setting labels: future · near future · Cold War era future · spacefaring future · Earth · other planets · interplanetary
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Distance: 0.1816
A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.
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Setting labels: Cold War · 1980s · post-apocalyptic · Antarctica · nuclear war · alternative reality · surreal future
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Distance: 0.1849
A signal from deep space gives humanity shocking knowledge, forcing scientists and leaders to confront secrecy, faith, and power.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · space agency · NASA-like setting · Cold War context · post-Cold War update · global politics · religious institutions
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Distance: 0.1849
A fragmented near-future dystopia where pollution, corruption, and disease push America toward ecological collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · global environmental crisis · urban dystopia · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · polluted earth
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Distance: 0.1862
In an alternate 1980s, rival Earth powers explore a life-filled Venus where dinosaurs, tribes, and hidden alien secrets collide.
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Setting labels: Venus · Mars · 1980s · late Cold War · alternate history · space colony · frontier world · jungle planet · prehistoric ecology · space race era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1875
