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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Incubation.
Setting labels used: biotech lab, biomedical facility, city under collapse, near-future apocalypse, flu epidemic backdrop, contained siege setting, workplace takeover
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In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · medical-tech future · outbreak setting · quarantine · military compound · safe zone · city collapse · society in collapse · bioengineered reality
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Distance: 0.1924
A biotech researcher’s forbidden experiment creates sentient cells that transform his body and then humanity.
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Setting labels: biotechnology lab · modern-day America · North America · urban collapse · post-disaster landscape · lab-to-world scale
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Distance: 0.1939
A near-future biotech experiment creates a sapient rat whose escape triggers a violent reckoning for humans.
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Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · urban setting · New York City · biotech startup · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1990
A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States
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Distance: 0.2068
A marine biologist in a pandemic vaccine trial wakes trapped with other volunteers and discovers memory can be revisited.
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Setting labels: London · clinical trial facility · hospital unit · near future · pandemic world · post-apocalyptic · locked-in setting · global collapse
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Distance: 0.2100
In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
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Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
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Distance: 0.2213
An escaped lab-made bird-human hybrid crosses a ruined world, seeking freedom, kinship, and a place to belong.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · biotech wasteland · laboratory setting · ruined cities · collapsed civilization · same world as Borne · speculative future
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Distance: 0.2216
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
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Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
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Distance: 0.2230
An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting
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Distance: 0.2234
A captive young woman in a dystopia of vanishing girls discovers the truth behind her prison and fights to escape.
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Setting labels: near future · post apocalyptic · dystopian · research compound · prison like facility · militarized compound · collapsed society · worldwide epidemic
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Distance: 0.2284
A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.
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Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting
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Distance: 0.2299
A sarcastic ex-action star wakes in an asylum as zombies overrun the world, forcing him to survive and uncover the truth.
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Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · mental institution · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · urban survival · research lab · government research · collapsed society · contemporary earth · apocalypse onset
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Distance: 0.2306
