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Setting labels used: psychiatric hospital, mental institution, post-apocalyptic world, zombie-infested world, urban survival, research lab, government research, collapsed society, contemporary earth, apocalypse onset
Focused on “quarantine” where exact label matches exist.
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In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · medical-tech future · outbreak setting · quarantine · military compound · safe zone · city collapse · society in collapse · bioengineered reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1429
A medicated former zombie reunites with her ex-best friend in a fragile island refuge as love, fear, and danger collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · island community · surviving communities · experimental facility · resettlement site · near-future · collapsed society · post-virus world · semi-rebuilt society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1327
Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1329
A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · earth after disaster · collapse of civilization · desert landscape · quarantine · bunkers · ruins · American setting · global catastrophe
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Distance: 0.1708
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1448
A prequel tracing Thomas and the others inside WICKED, where a maze is built and loyalties begin to shift.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic world · dystopian future · research facility · compound · maze trials · lab environment · child detention · virus outbreak · global collapse · WICKED headquarters · before the maze
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Distance: 0.1502
In a virus-ravaged world split by walls, a young survivor and a mute boy become bound by love and dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · wall-separated community · infected zone · research compound · laboratory setting · survival society · ruined civilization · virus outbreak · future setting · deadly contagion
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1507
A cured survivor in a rehab facility recounts a plague that may have turned perception itself into a deadly weapon.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · rehabilitation facility · institutional setting · ravaged world · countryside · city streets · worldwide outbreak · uncertain reality · pandemic-era resonance
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1542
An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1549
In a female-run future after a moth-borne plague targets men, an older caretaker faces buried truths about the world she helped build.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · post-pandemic society · near-future · Britain · UK · female-dominated world · institutional setting · quarantine facilities · sanatoriums · global collapse
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Distance: 0.1564
A deadly-touch teen becomes a weapon to a regime, then fights to reclaim her power and freedom amid romance and rebellion.
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Setting labels: dystopian world · war-torn world · scientific dystopia · post-collapse society · government regime · asylum · prison cell · underground resistance
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Distance: 0.1579
A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1589
