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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for A Case of Need.
Setting labels used: Boston, hospital setting, medical center, medical school environment, 1960s, pre-Roe era, pre-legalization, urban hospital, medical profession, courtroom-adjacent
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A medical student uncovers a lethal hospital conspiracy after routine surgeries leave healthy patients in comas.
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Setting labels: Boston · teaching hospital · operating room · intensive care facility · medical workplace · hospital system
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Distance: 0.2311
Two graduate students take a fertility-clinic egg donation job to uncover what became of their eggs—and uncover far more.
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Setting labels: Boston area · Harvard · Italy · Venice · Rural clinic · Former asylum · Medical facility · Contemporary setting · Early 2000s · Research lab
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2564
A Mars-raised human returns to Earth, where his alien worldview and powers ignite culture clash, philosophy, and controversy.
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Setting labels: Mars · Earth · near future · undisclosed future · space travel · 1960s America · counterculture era · institutional setting · hospital setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2749
A bored FDA worker is pulled into a kidnapping and a conspiracy where time can be extracted, traded, and stolen.
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Setting labels: United States · Maryland · FDA · hospital setting · bureaucratic workplace · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2799
An experimental brain surgery meant to stop violent seizures instead turns one patient into a deadly threat.
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Setting labels: University Hospital · Los Angeles · hospital · research facility · medical laboratory · 1970s · early 1970s · retro technology · cold clinical setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2826
In a world where murder victims usually return, a licensed killer is drawn into a missing-person case and a deadly loophole.
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Setting labels: 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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Distance: 0.2899
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
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Distance: 0.2918
A hospital psychologist and a neurologist probe near-death experiences, only to uncover a mystery that grows far stranger and deeper.
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Setting labels: hospital setting · Denver · late 1990s · medical environment · lab setting
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Distance: 0.2947
After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.
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Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life
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Distance: 0.2948
During a rabies-like outbreak in Massachusetts, a pregnant woman and her doctor friend race through quarantine to reach care.
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Setting labels: Massachusetts · New England · hospital setting · quarantine setting · curfew setting · urban/suburban survival · post apocalyptic landscape · pandemic setting · contemporary setting · United States
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Distance: 0.2983
An elderly woman dies, wakes as her teenage self in 1958, and gets repeated chances to live differently.
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Setting labels: 1950s · 1960s · 2010s · 1958 · small town · small-town America · Oregon · mid-century America · contemporary framing · historical setting · hospital · home town
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Distance: 0.2995
Mutant winged teens search for their origins while trying to survive a new home, school, and old enemies.
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Setting labels: New York City · Washington, D.C. · school setting · hospital setting · federal agent home · contemporary urban setting · shared house setting · science-fiction reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2999
