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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Tea with the Black Dragon.
Setting labels used: San Francisco, 1980s, early 1980s, Silicon Valley, urban setting, contemporary setting, hotel setting, Bay Area
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In 1980s San Francisco, a young computer-obsessed dropout becomes a forensic accountant amid startup war and tech corruption.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · late 1970s · San Francisco · Boston · Silicon Valley · MIT · computer boom · early personal computing · tech boom · queer scene · AIDS era · startup culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1694
A depressed tech worker in Silicon Valley is shadowed by a black hole while work, love, and life keep unraveling.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · San Francisco · Bay Area · contemporary · startup culture · urban inequality · late-capitalist future · near-dystopia · corporate workplace · pandemic backdrop
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1977
Four loosely linked novellas twist memory, weather, guns, and survival into unsettling, high-concept horror.
Why this is here
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: 0.2074
An aging poet accepts a lucrative corporate challenge to co-write a poem with an AI and is changed by the collaboration.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · San Francisco · New York · tech headquarters · corporate campus · modern day · contemporary · realist setting · speculative setting · poetry world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2108
A recovering writer in 1970s San Francisco is drawn into an occult mystery linking a forbidden book, a journal, and the city itself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · 1970s · modern city · urban realism · apartment building · hills and landmarks · occult cityscape · contemporary American city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2109
An accident makes a New York securities analyst invisible, forcing him into a tense survival game against government agents.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1980s · contemporary setting · urban setting · secret laboratory · financial world · crowded city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2133
A memory-traveling woman builds a secluded California commune, and her family must confront its haunted legacy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: California · Santa Cruz · Los Angeles · San Francisco · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s · 1990s · turn of the millennium · woods · redwoods · mansion · commune · off-grid
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2139
After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Silicon Valley · contemporary setting · near-future setting · social media world · digital society · international intrigue · China expansion · internet culture · corporate setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2150
A shy teen singer uses a holographic alter ego to front her band, sparking rivalry, romance, and glam-rock drama.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modernized setting · 1980s nostalgia · contemporary setting · music industry · social media · record label · concert world · school-age youth culture · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2150
A burned-out dating-app employee follows a weird glitch into alternate worlds, exposing Big Tech secrets and his own identity crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · Silicon Valley · startup office · tech industry · corporate workplace · alternate worlds · parallel worlds · multiverse · early 2010s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2210
A teen math prodigy with leukemia and a D&D friend group gets pulled into a time-travel mystery that could save a girl.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · 1986 · London · South London · urban setting · British setting · 1980s teen life · pre-digital era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2239
A stranded time agent must choose between the future he lost and the daughter he raised in the past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1990s · 2010s · 2142 · San Francisco · suburban San Francisco · future society · alternate future · time travel · near future · contemporary domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2247
