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Setting labels used: near future, alternative present, Chicago, hospital setting, operating room, urban setting, contemporary world, secondary-world rules in real-world setting, insurance-driven medicine, organized crime underbelly
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A dispatcher is pulled into a Chicago web of billionaires, crypto, and murder when a friend lands in the ER.
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Setting labels: alternate present · near future · Chicago · hospital setting · emergency room · critical care unit · post-pandemic · speculative reality · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1496
In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.
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Setting labels: future world · near future · dystopian future · utopian dystopia · hospital · Chicago · controlled society · immortal society · one-room setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1619
A dispatcher in a world where murder rarely sticks gets pulled into a deadly conspiracy that makes him a suspect.
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Setting labels: Chicago · alternate earth · near future · present day · what-if world · global phenomenon · corporate world · urban crime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1698
In a near-future AI-run world, a medical student uncovers family secrets and a deadly medical mystery in New Orleans.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · New Orleans · New York City · AI-controlled society · medical enclave · university hospital · medical school · alternate healthcare system
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1739
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: 0.1754
A hereditary disease born from a cancer cure forces one young woman to confront stigma, control, and survival.
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Setting labels: future · dystopian world · medical institution · ward setting · retreat setting · isolated community · institutionalized care
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Distance: 0.1868
A food-powered detective chases a killer while his dead sister guides him from beyond and family secrets unravel.
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Setting labels: urban contemporary · alternate reality · post-epidemic world · food dystopia · FDA-dominated world · prison setting · supernatural world · alien elements · global conspiracy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1908
In a near-future U.S., a prosecutor who sought death penalty execution must uncover the truth before she pays for a possible mistake.
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Setting labels: near-future USA · alternate reality · dystopian future · legal system · death row · courtroom world · contemporary America · speculative fiction
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1909
A woman with recurring dreams of a husband she’s never met finds him in real life—just as reality starts to unravel.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · hospital setting · medical setting · parallel universe · time travel · multiple timelines
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1928
An illustrated anthology of 34 stories about a machine that tells people how they’ll die, and how that knowledge reshapes life.
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Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · dystopian society · contemporary setting · shared world · speculative world · institutional setting · high school setting · medical setting · wartime setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1958
A teen illusionist thief joins superpowered criminals on a dangerous hunt for the vaccine formula that made them outlaws.
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Setting labels: near future · future America · post-pandemic · dystopian society · real world · underground crime · government surveillance · urban setting · post-apocalyptic · pandemic aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1969
A young woman tied to a criminal chocolate trade tries to legalize her world while navigating love, loss, and power.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · New York · nightclub scene · organized crime setting · legalized-drug workaround · world of scarcity · high school to adulthood
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1995
