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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Flowers for Algernon. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: intelligence enhancement, experimental surgery, human subject, lab animal parallel, intellectual transformation, mental disability, ethical experiment
Setting labels used: laboratory, school, workplace, United States
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A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.
Why this is here
Premise labels: reanimated head · human experimentation · mad scientist · medical breakthrough · body transplants · ethical dilemma · scientific ambition · living heads
Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2373
An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: experimental rejuvenation · cloning · identity crisis · human experimentation · ethical dilemma · body swap · immortality quest · aging · transhumanism · medical experiment · life extension · double self
Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2425
A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.
Why this is here
Premise labels: genetic engineering · animal experimentation · uplifted animal · lab escape · animal revolt · near-future biotech
Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · urban setting · New York City · biotech startup · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2579
An eleven-year-old’s life changes when her scientist grandfather reverses aging and lands in middle school with her.
Why this is here
Premise labels: reverse aging · fountain of youth · scientist grandfather · middle school adjustment · family change · science curiosity
Setting labels: middle school · home life · scientific lab · present day · urban/suburban
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Distance: 0.2623
An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.
Why this is here
Premise labels: experimental surgery · brain implant · neurotechnology · mind control · violent seizures · computer-brain interface · machine fear · medical intervention gone wrong · human vs machine · technological overreach
Setting labels: University Hospital · Los Angeles · hospital · research facility · medical laboratory · 1970s · early 1970s · retro technology · cold clinical setting · urban setting
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Distance: 0.2665
A biotech researcher’s forbidden experiment creates sentient cells that transform his body and then humanity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: scientific experiment · unauthorized research · intelligent cells · self-experimentation · internal invasion · accidental outbreak · biotech hubris · microbial intelligence
Setting labels: biotechnology lab · modern-day America · North America · urban collapse · post-disaster landscape · lab-to-world scale
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Distance: 0.2671
A grieving teen and a troubled classmate race to recreate a legendary formula, risking love, sanity, and their darker selves.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Jekyll and Hyde retelling · scientific experiment · college scholarship · family legacy · hidden darkness · cure the monster · dual nature · partnered research · love amid danger · murder mystery
Setting labels: high school · chemistry lab · Pennsylvania · contemporary setting · American high school · school competition
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2677
A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.
Why this is here
Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human
Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2731
A hospital psychologist and a neurologist probe near-death experiences, only to uncover a mystery that grows far stranger and deeper.
Why this is here
Premise labels: near-death experiences · medical mystery · scientific investigation · afterlife inquiry · drug-induced experience · brain science · hospital research
Setting labels: hospital setting · Denver · late 1990s · medical environment · lab setting
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Distance: 0.2794
A traumatized graduate student in magical psychiatry confronts an abusive mentor, mind reading, and a split self.
Why this is here
Premise labels: academic abuse · mind reading · identity crisis · self-splitting · magical psychiatry · toxic mentorship · trauma recovery · ethical mind alteration
Setting labels: university setting · graduate school · academic institution · England · United States · contemporary setting · alternate world · magic-as-normal world · academic magic
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Distance: 0.2824
A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: artificial intelligence · AI growth · AI integration · social adaptation · identity search · self-definition · difference and conformity · human machine contact · conscious machine · coming of age
Setting labels: near future · future society · laboratory setting · research center · human world · socially integrated technology
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2830
A deranged lab rat defends animal experimentation as a wider animal rebellion builds beyond the lab.
Why this is here
Premise labels: animal experimentation · lab revolt · animal uprising · animal rights · anti-vivisection · animal liberation · sentient animals · collaboration with oppressor · apologist protagonist · worldwide animal rebellion · species solidarity · science vs ethics
Setting labels: research laboratory · animal testing facility · university lab · zoo · slaughterhouse · wild nature · global animal world · war-era atmosphere · 1970s setting · postwar allegorical world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2835
An artificial consciousness must help save humanity when the sun starts dying far too soon.
Why this is here
Premise labels: artificial consciousness · dying sun · save humanity · trauma therapist · human genome · race against time · end of the world · humanity vs extinction · nonhuman protagonist
Setting labels: university lab · college campus · Boston university · lab environment · dying Earth · solar apocalypse · scientific research setting · simulated living space
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Distance: 0.2846
A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.
Why this is here
Premise labels: love triangle · unrequited love · void entity · created phenomenon · scientific discovery · academic rivalry · relationship disruption · obsession
Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting
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Distance: 0.2853
A scientist studying a resurrected dinosaur in a lab begins to form an unexpected bond that tests ethics, identity, and desire.
Why this is here
Premise labels: scientific study · human-animal contact · laboratory research · romantic bond · cross-species romance · unexpected attraction · ethical dilemma · intelligence testing
Setting labels: laboratory · research facility · scientific installation · dinosaur habitat · experimental enclosure · near-future science fiction · high-tech setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2858
A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.
Why this is here
Premise labels: genetic engineering · gene patenting · biotech ethics · corporate science · legal conflict · transgenic animals · genetic research · bioethics
Setting labels: contemporary · near future · present-day science · biotech industry · laboratory setting · legal setting · corporate setting · urban setting · global · sci-fi realism
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2861
A terminally ill teen wakes five years later in a new body and must face the life, love, and friends that moved on without him.
Why this is here
Premise labels: second chance at life · head transplant · cryogenic preservation · medical miracle · life after death · time displacement · return to a changed world · grief and recovery
Setting labels: contemporary United States · high school · hospital · family home · post-teen transition · near-future science
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2861
A cross-continental family saga about science, activism, and technology tests what people think they owe each other.
Why this is here
Premise labels: family drama · scientific ethics · animal rights activism · academic career · parenthood · cross-cultural marriage · future technology · coming-of-age · moral dilemma · social critique
Setting labels: Finland · United States · Helsinki · university setting · academic world · near future · contemporary · multiple continents · cross-cultural setting
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Distance: 0.2866
A brain-damaged man receives experimental treatment that makes him exponentially smarter—and increasingly unlike human.
Why this is here
Premise labels: superintelligence · brain injury recovery · experimental treatment · genius drug · human enhancement · cognitive escalation · pattern recognition · body control · language invention · battle of minds
Setting labels: experimental medicine · medical research · government surveillance · brain damage recovery · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2878
A scientist links her mind to a wild wolf, chasing intimacy, knowledge, and belonging as her marriage and ethics unravel.
Why this is here
Premise labels: neural interface · animal consciousness · wolf perspective · interspecies empathy · research ethics · conservation science · workplace obsession · failing marriage
Setting labels: near future · winter setting · climate-affected world · corporate-dominated world · academic setting · wild landscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2917
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An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.
Why this is here
Premise labels: experimental subject · escaped captive · split personality · telekinetic powers · new human race · government facility · government experimentation · fugitive girl
Setting labels: Japanese setting · government laboratory · secret facility · urban setting · contemporary setting · science fiction reality · speculative biology
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2929
A hidden alien-human hybrid must survive high school, a bully, and a dangerous crush without exposing her secret.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien hybrid · hidden identity · lab escape · life in hiding · dangerous secret · fake dating · revenge plan · bully retaliation · forbidden romance · ordinary life disguise
Setting labels: high school · small town · Wisconsin · present day · laboratory · school setting · hidden-in-plain-sight · near-lab hometown · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2930
A teen brain trapped in a supermodel’s body juggles fame, family secrets, and a growing corporate mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: brain transplant · body swap · identity secret · famous body · modeling world · corporate intrigue · missing person · teen life double burden
Setting labels: high school · modeling industry · New York · contemporary setting · celebrity world · corporate setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2933
A disfigured scientist builds a lifelike mask and discovers it may free, split, or destroy his sense of self.
Why this is here
Premise labels: Facial disfigurement · Identity crisis · Mask identity · Social alienation · Alienated scientist · Experimental selfhood · Disguise · Social stigma · Marriage strain · Double self
Setting labels: Japan · 1960s Japan · Laboratory · Urban setting · Postwar setting · Modern society · Experimental science · Social world · Domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2937
