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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Strange Bodies.
Setting labels used: modern London, psychiatric hospital, mental asylum, secure facility, historical academic milieu, contemporary setting, speculative reality
Focused on “hospital” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
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: 0.1502
In modern London, the fractured League reunites to stop an apocalyptic Antichrist amid dense pop-culture and literary satire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · 2008 · contemporary Britain · modern world · mental institution · war zone · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1625
A surviving clone must outrun enemies, question her identity, and uncover the truth behind her bloody origins.
Why this is here
Setting labels: UK · London · burnt-out house · basement · mental hospital · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1779
An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.
Why this is here
Setting labels: British countryside · hospital setting · London · France · 1980s Britain · contemporary setting · alternate reality · psychological reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1881
A near-future saboteur navigates online time-zone tribes, betrayal, and an asylum rooftop crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · London · Boston · Toronto · Massachusetts Turnpike · psychiatric hospital · insane asylum · online world · globalized world · alternate future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1941
A holistic detective traces an airport explosion, odd gods, and tangled coincidences through modern London.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · Heathrow Airport · Oslo · St Pancras · modern world · urban fantasy · contemporary setting · British setting · Norse myth in modernity · hospital
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2274
An amnesiac Cambridge professor in a psychiatric ward drifts through visions, letters, and memory as reality fractures.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · psychiatric hospital · mental ward · Atlantic sea voyage · tropical island · space journey · cosmic reality · 1960s · university setting · Cambridge
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1992
A marine biologist in a pandemic vaccine trial wakes trapped with other volunteers and discovers memory can be revisited.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · clinical trial facility · hospital unit · near future · pandemic world · post-apocalyptic · locked-in setting · global collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1997
A secret revolutionary cell battles psychic oppression through occult, time-bending, reality-warping missions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: London · mid-1990s · contemporary setting · alternate reality · interdimensional · psychedelic reality · historical inset · time travel · urban setting · global scope
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1998
A shy job-seeker lands a mysterious office job and discovers his employer hides a magical, goblin-run secret world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern London · office environment · urban setting · mundane reality · magical hidden world · workplace setting · contemporary fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2010
A full-cast modern audio retelling follows a female doctor whose experiment splits her dark and light sides in London.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day London · contemporary setting · urban setting · British setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2026
A 28-story collection of eerie, high-concept weird fiction where ordinary worlds are warped by impossible intrusions.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary reality · near-future · alternate reality · urban setting · London · Europe · England · coastal setting · island setting · isolated enclave · medical setting · academic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2028
