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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Passage.
Setting labels used: hospital setting, Denver, late 1990s, medical environment, lab setting
Focused on “contemporary setting” 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.
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: 0.2388
A New York medical examiner uncovers a deadly bioterror plot involving anthrax, extremists, and a vengeful immigrant.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · 1990s · post-Soviet · urban · medical examiner setting · laboratory setting · clinical setting · bioweapons research · Soviet Union
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2144
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: 0.2479
A grieving scientist’s experiment with his dead wife’s cells awakens a terrifying force inside the human body.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japan · 1990s Japan · laboratory setting · hospital setting · medical research setting · academic setting · pharmaceutical research · cellular-scale reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2227
After a severe accident, a speech-impaired teen in rehab uncovers disturbing nighttime secrets and changes in himself.
Why this is here
Setting labels: rehabilitation center · isolated facility · hospital setting · clinical setting · nighttime setting · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2537
An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: University Hospital · Los Angeles · hospital · research facility · medical laboratory · 1970s · early 1970s · retro technology · cold clinical setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2240
A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2292
A fad researcher at a corporate lab teams with a chaos theorist to untangle trends, science, and workplace chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1990s · Colorado · Boulder · research institute · corporate office · science workplace · academic bureaucracy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2426
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: 0.2729
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: 0.2736
A woman with recurring dreams of a husband she’s never met finds him in real life—just as reality starts to unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · hospital setting · medical setting · parallel universe · time travel · multiple timelines
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2776
A secret desert lab’s attempt to engineer a flu cure spirals into a deadly biosecurity crisis and survival chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New Mexico · desert setting · remote research facility · high-security lab · psychiatric hospital · corporate headquarters · biohazard lab · Level 5 lab · isolated workplace · near nuclear test site · contemporary setting · mid-90s setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2850
