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Setting labels used: experimental medicine, medical research, government surveillance, brain damage recovery, speculative reality
Focused on “post-apocalyptic world” where exact label matches exist.
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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: 0.2227
A young writer and a fading producer enter a risky blood-transfusion bargain that trades youth, money, and power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Hollywood · publishing industry · creative industry · contemporary · speculative reality · medical experimentation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2033
A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · medical setting · womb · China · scientific speculative world
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Distance: 0.2213
Twin sisters join a government reproduction program after humanity learns extinction is encoded in its DNA.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate reality · early 21st century · United States · Pennsylvania · government agency · medical research setting · global crisis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2259
In a dystopian YA finale, Tatum races to uncover her erased past, expose the Program, and reclaim the truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · dystopian society · high school · institutional control · medical/clinical setting · memory-alteration reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2328
With Tony sidelined in the ICU, Toni Chu takes over a bizarre, funny, and increasingly dark case-driven volume.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future speculative world · hospital ICU · NASA · FDA · hell · crime underworld
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2412
An FBI agent survives a bombing and begins experiencing a reality-bending psychic shift that blurs human and alien identity.
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Setting labels: federal workplace · hospital setting · crime scene investigation · psychological reality · psychedelic reality
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Distance: 0.2417
A business trip turns nightmarish when a mysterious illness traps one man inside a dystopian hospital system.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · hospital setting · medical institution · C City · China · bureaucratic system · speculative future · authoritarian society · medicalized world · labyrinthine interior
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2482
A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.
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Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum
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Distance: 0.2489
An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2532
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A DNA-powered police system frames its creator, forcing him and a skeptical detective to uncover a deeper conspiracy.
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Setting labels: Japan · contemporary Japan · near-future · high-tech surveillance state · police procedural setting · research institute · hospital/neurology setting · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2544
In a post-pandemic future where touch is outlawed, a rule-following nurse and a rebel uncover dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-pandemic future · alternate world · dystopian society · technologically advanced society · sterile environment · virtual reality · care facility · lab conception · controlled city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2574
