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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Past Master.
Setting labels used: far future, distant planet, utopian society, slums, space travel, time travel, alternate future, technological society, post-scarcity society, dystopian underclass, colonized planet
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · space station · other planets · Earth · utopian society · dystopian society · advanced technology · posthuman future · alternative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0656
An astronaut returns to an Earth transformed by time and a peace-driven social experiment, and struggles to belong.
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Setting labels: Earth future · space travel · post-scarcity society · post-violence society · technological utopia · dystopian utopia · spacefaring civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0739
A prequel graphic novel tracing the origins of a rebel leader, a forbidden love, and the seeds of revolution.
Why this is here
Setting labels: outer space · future society · planetary colonies · interplanetary world · distant planets · dystopian future · futuristic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0742
On a polluted Earth, a government investigator on a new colony uncovers a hidden alien truth tied to his missing wife.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · far future · dystopian future · Earth · off-world colony · terraforming · underground society · polluted Earth · exoplanet · space colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0788
A futuristic warrior woman seeks help for her enslaved planet and collides with a dominant barbarian who upends her mission.
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Setting labels: distant future · interplanetary · alien world · primitive planet · technologically advanced society · post-coup society · space travel · patriarchal society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0809
A bored master gamer from a post-scarcity utopia is blackmailed into competing in an empire where the game determines power.
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Setting labels: far future · intergalactic · post-scarcity · utopian society · alien empire · spacefaring civilization · hierarchical society · high-tech world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0849
A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.
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Setting labels: space · far future · dystopian future · corporate society · capitalist dystopia · interstellar setting · tech-saturated world · repressive society · space scavenger culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0876
A far-future prince from a self-denying culture discovers a mind-sharing drug that could upend his world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · colonized planet · interplanetary humanity · distant planet · feudal society · theocracy · repressive culture · human colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0929
A MIT researcher accidentally builds a one-way time machine and keeps jumping deeper into the future.
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Setting labels: MIT · near future · distant future · far future · religious theocracy · utopian society · dystopian society · alternate future societies · science-fiction future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0929
A human raised by posthuman parents tests whether her species can live on a new world—while falling for her pilot.
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Setting labels: far future · Earth · spacefaring civilization · habitable exoplanet · post-dystopian future · post-capitalist society · constructed democracy · solar system · planetary colony politics
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0943
A gay proxy and his privileged patron collide in a debt-ridden dystopia, then flee a system built on punishment.
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Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian future · post-collapse society · upper city · lower city · slum · wasteland · desert journey · technocratic society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0955
A queer teenage reincarnation of King Arthur teams up with a backward-aging Merlin to topple a galactic corporate regime.
Why this is here
Setting labels: far future · space setting · interplanetary · Old Earth · colonized planets · dystopian future · corporate-controlled society · post-climate-change · faux-medieval planet · galaxy-spanning
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0957
