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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Germ: If You Breathe, It Will Find You.
Setting labels used: CDC, Atlanta, southern US, government agencies, medical research setting, contemporary setting, military base
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A young CDC doctor investigates linked Ebola outbreaks across the U.S. and uncovers a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Atlanta · CDC · United States · hospital setting · clinic setting · laboratory setting · 1980s · postmodern medical system · epidemic setting · aero/road travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1773
A bored FDA worker is pulled into a kidnapping and a conspiracy where time can be extracted, traded, and stolen.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Maryland · FDA · hospital setting · bureaucratic workplace · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2207
A Delta Force team and a CDC virologist race to stop a weaponized virus turning the world into monsters.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Atlanta · Fort Bragg · California · offshore facility · research facility · post-apocalyptic · military installation · global outbreak · Vietnam
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2537
An alien contagion spreads across America, forcing a secret team to race a smarter outbreak before humanity is lost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: across America · United States · government black ops · CDC · CIA · military response · apocalypse setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2546
A sick teen in a post-pandemic military town uncovers a dangerous secret as several mysterious boys orbit her life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-pandemic future · military base · small-town facade · quarantine zone · high school setting · medical setting · controlled community · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2635
A CDC epidemiologist and an amnesiac man race to stop a fast-moving outbreak tied to a hidden global conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · global · Kenya · Berlin · Atlanta · Arctic Ocean · medical field · CDC · WHO · international · apocalypse present-day · Africa · Europe
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2753
A brilliant young scientist in a virus-ravaged compound falls for an infected survivor while questioning the system she serves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-pandemic world · government-controlled compound · research facility · near future · United States · lockdown society · curfews · border controls · quarantine
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2843
A doctor-to-be and his friends race to stop a strange virus that turns people into something not quite human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · college town · hospital setting · American town · global outbreak · late 1990s
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2855
A scientist and a virus hunter race to explain a bizarre reproductive outbreak that may signal a new stage of human evolution.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · global · Republic of Georgia · the Alps · government institutions · scientific labs
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2893
After a brutal accident, a teen is trapped in her mother’s biotech world and asked to design the perfect boy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · modern day · research facility · biotech lab · medical setting · high-tech company
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2898
A deadly flu wipes out most of America, forcing a handful of survivors toward opposing visions of the future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · global pandemic · secret military laboratory · post-apocalyptic world · urban and rural America
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2913
A brain-damaged man receives experimental treatment that makes him exponentially smarter—and increasingly unlike human.
Why this is here
Setting labels: experimental medicine · medical research · government surveillance · brain damage recovery · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2934
