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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Legion and The Emperor's Soul.
Setting labels used: contemporary America, Jerusalem, fictional empire, Sel, same world as Elantris, separate region of Sel, pseudomedieval setting, palace setting, confined chamber
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A coerced team of scholars must fabricate an ancient city and language to justify a ruler’s planned war.
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Setting labels: alternate ancient world · medieval pseudo-Byzantine world · alt-ancient setting · university setting · palace setting · borderland setting · fictional empire · historical fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1922
In a modern alternate universe, mutant youths gather under Xavier while Magneto and the government push the world toward war.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate universe · modern America · Earth-like world · secret-government world · school setting · global setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1967
A young Saudi man is pulled into a tangled mystery where history, science, faith, and hidden identities collide across time.
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Setting labels: contemporary · historical past · medieval setting · mongol era · cross-temporal setting · real world · alternate world · parallel worlds · Middle East
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2029
A grief-stricken teen chases her father’s killer across parallel worlds and gets pulled into a love triangle.
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Setting labels: alternate universes · multiverse · modern-day America · futuristic London · imperial Russia · undersea world · post-apocalyptic world · historical setting · science fictional setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2033
A teen Guardian must train a new apprentice while battling a secret force that tries to rewrite history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · historical travel · past and present · alternate history · hidden world · interdimensional · urban fantasy setting · worlds collide
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2101
A man trapped between two linked realities must survive terror, revelation, and spiritual war to save both worlds.
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Setting labels: modern world · alternate world · two realities · dreamscape · apocalyptic setting · symbolic fantasy world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2108
An annual, guest-edited anthology of 20 science fiction and fantasy stories spotlighting varied voices and styles.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · alternate present · alternate past · dystopian present · spacefaring settings · contemporary America · mythic fantasy settings
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2122
When a perfect clock threatens to stop time, Susan, Death, and a secret order race to prevent the end of everything.
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Setting labels: Discworld · imaginary place · time travel setting · monastic setting · city setting · fictional secondary world · anachronistic fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2130
Fifteen years after war and infertility, a poet, an emperor’s daughter, and a new magic must decide whether peace can survive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secondary world · postwar world · imperial court · city-states · cross-cultural setting · fantasy kingdom
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2136
A young orphan grows into an imperial diplomat, learning the bitter cost of serving a regime built on 'Perfection.'
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Setting labels: secondary world · occupied territory · imperial state · occupied empire · multiple locations · city-hopping · alternate world · fantasy geopolitics · magic-inflected world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2137
Nicci, Nathan, and Bannon reach a hidden city where magic, slavery, and rebellion threaten Nathan’s chance to regain his power.
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Setting labels: imaginary places · secondary world · Old World · hidden city · time-shrouded city · magic kingdom · dystopian city · post-isolation society · fantasy empire
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2140
An orphan raised in a secret library must uncover what happened to her godlike guardian as hidden powers collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · hidden world · alternate reality · secret dimension · isolated library · mythic reality · cosmic scale · suburban setting · liminal space · outside normal time
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2149
