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Setting labels used: psychiatric hospital, New York City, Manhattan, contemporary setting, outer space, alien world, utopian planet, single-site setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A young psychologist is assigned to a rare psychiatric case, and the patient and hospital secrets quickly entangle them both.
Why this is here
Setting labels: hospital setting · psych ward · single-location setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1756
A married couple confronts escalating phobias and missing time, uncovering a sinister mind-control scheme.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · urban domestic · therapist office · medicalized setting · real-world setting · psychological realism · small-circle social world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2001
An abducted Earth woman wakes in a new body on an alien world and must escape a sinister plot with a drugged captive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Earth · Central Park · New York City · alien planet · Lothar · hospital · sanitarium · mental institution · feudal society · technological society · interstellar war setting · other planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2021
A sarcastic ex-action star wakes in an asylum as zombies overrun the world, forcing him to survive and uncover the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · mental institution · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · urban survival · research lab · government research · collapsed society · contemporary earth · apocalypse onset
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2111
A dead academic seems to return in a new body, pulling a psychiatrist and a conspiracy into questions of identity and immortality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern London · psychiatric hospital · mental asylum · secure facility · historical academic milieu · contemporary setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2158
A teen resistance leader is infiltrating an alien scheme when he becomes trapped inside his own body.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · hospital setting · woods setting · enemy base · alien occupation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2188
A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future · dystopian world · medical institution · ward setting · retreat setting · isolated community · institutionalized care
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2195
A wide-ranging collection of speculative short stories centered on Black futures, social justice, and inventive worlds.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · alternate universe · near future · far future · post-apocalyptic · utopian society · New York City · New Orleans · Jim Crow South · space colony · alien planet · historical setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2211
When pain becomes visible as light worldwide, a love-note journal passes among strangers linked by suffering.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · global setting · hospital setting · urban setting · realist world with one fantastical premise · liminal realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2237
A young psychiatrist in 2035 uncovers a conspiracy linking child patients, nanobots, and a human-like robot.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Manhattan · teaching hospital · psychiatric ward · pediatric inpatient unit · near future · 2035 · high-tech hospital · future Earth · medicalized future · robot-inflected reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2249
After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2251
Seven insomniac teens enter an experiment to cure sleep disorders, but a malfunction traps them in shared nightmares.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · dreamworld · nightmare realm · medical lab · hospital setting · shared dreamscape · void · experimental clinic
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2259
