Find similar books by
Combine common axes
These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Symbiont.
Setting labels used: San Francisco, post-apocalyptic city, quarantine zones, lab setting, mall setting, boat setting, abandoned buildings, near future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Six years after a pandemic, four survivors in a rebuilding San Francisco face buried pasts, family bonds, and a new outbreak scare.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near-future · San Francisco · rebuilding society · metro cities · communes · wasteland zones · post-pandemic world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1398
A city outbreak traps multiple people inside a fast-moving infected apocalypse, forcing survival, rescue, and impossible choices.
Why this is here
Setting labels: city · quarantine zone · post apocalyptic city · during outbreak · lab · homebound lockdown · checkpoints · dead city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1603
An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · near-future · future past · post-plague world · ruined urban landscape · tribal society · post-collapse wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1617
In a flooded future San Francisco, a grieving artist becomes a caregiver and rediscovers art, memory, and belonging.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future San Francisco · flooded city · near future · post-apocalyptic · climate-ravaged · rain-soaked · high-rise living · rooftop markets · skywalks · boat transport · flooded urban landscape · coastal city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1619
In a quarantined near-future California, an uploaded teen companion breaks free and hunts for answers about her death.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · California · San Francisco · west coast · quarantined towers · post-quarantine · post-pandemic · shelter-in-place · high-rise isolation
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1664
A post-apocalyptic road trip reaches a turning point as old mysteries, new enemies, and fragile loyalties collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · San Francisco · California · Australia · church setting · lab setting · travel narrative · world without men
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1711
In plague-ravaged San Francisco, artists defend their city from a would-be empire using creativity, not force.
Why this is here
Setting labels: San Francisco · Northern California · post-apocalyptic city · plague aftermath · near future · ruins · ghost-haunted city · post-technological · post-pandemic · American West
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1726
A scientist trapped in a quarantine zone is transformed and claimed by three alphas in a dangerous, steamy new world.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · quarantine zone · walled city · hive city · contaminated forest · alternate Earth · dystopian future · mutated society · isolated colony
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1756
A midwife survives a plague that decimates women and children, then travels a brutal new world in disguise.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · plague aftermath · near future · United States · San Francisco · lawless society · deserted cities · collapsed civilization · desolate landscape · survivalist world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1790
Captured by a brutal new community, Jess and her friends must survive, keep secrets, and find a way to escape.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic · apocalyptic future · compound setting · bunker setting · walled community · survival camp · lab setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1793
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: 0.1821
A routine-bound New York office worker outlasts a strange pandemic and joins survivors while confronting her past.
Why this is here
Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · Brooklyn · Chicago · Shenzhen · China · post-apocalyptic America · urban setting · office tower · abandoned city
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1841
