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Setting labels used: Chicago, United States, North America, lab setting, political setting
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A kidnapped physics professor wakes in a different life and must fight to return to the family he knows.
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Setting labels: Chicago · small college · urban · contemporary · alternate realities · multiverse · lab setting · warehouse setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2052
An 18-year-old in superhero Chicago gains powers in a bombing and must choose between normal life and caped duty.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · university setting · contemporary world · alternate Earth · post-Event world · superhero society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2282
A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experiment that transforms his mind, then forces him to face the cost.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · school · workplace · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2317
A brilliant autistic inventor’s sound-recreating device draws government and criminal forces into a deadly chase.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · government facility · institutional setting · secret research setting · urban chase · United States
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2362
Teen genius Riri Williams juggles MIT, Chicago, and superhero duty while confronting trauma and rising threats.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · MIT · Marvel Universe · street level · academy setting · garage workshop · lab setting · upstate New York · hostage crisis setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2409
A hidden Bengal Breed returns to claim the mate he left behind, while vengeance, secrets, and old wounds collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: lab setting · experimental facility · sanctuary · desert setting · Native American setting · urban fantasy world · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2439
A snarky winged teen and her flock race to stop a corporation’s plan to remake humanity and cut the population in half.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · global travel · United States · Europe · Germany · Hawaii · Los Angeles · school lab setting · corporate headquarters · modern times
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2481
A depressed bisexual statistician is pulled into a mystery linking a deadly global catastrophe to an impossibly lucky casino.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Las Vegas · Chicago · United States · global catastrophe · casino setting · academic setting · contemporary setting · post-disaster world
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Distance: 0.2509
When the Moon becomes cheese, a rotating cast of people across America faces humor, panic, and fallout over one lunar cycle.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · United States · global · modern world · science and government settings · media culture
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2568
A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2586
A Chicago artist wakes in a different life with another set of memories and must uncover why reality has shifted.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · Michigan · small town · suburbs · art gallery · birthday party · contemporary setting · workplace tech startup
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2626
A wolf-breed alpha kidnaps his believed-unfaithful mate, forcing them to confront betrayal, desire, and a mad scientist.
Why this is here
Setting labels: lab setting · scientific facility · experimental reality · wolf-pack world · human-and-breed world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2629
A grieving Black teen who can glimpse the future through touch races to save his brother while confronting fear, racism, and fate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · mostly white neighborhood · urban contemporary · 21st century America · real-world setting with magical element
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2685
A scientist races to stop a deadly virus by mutating it into compassion—until kindness becomes its own danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · alternate reality · global setting · China · United Kingdom · research laboratory · political sphere
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Distance: 0.2689
A grieving scientist tests a limited time-travel device that only observes her past, until reality begins to shift.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · corporate research setting · tech company setting · time travel lab · domestic setting
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Distance: 0.2701
A shattered teen resistance fights a brain-hacking enemy in a high-tech war over free will and sanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate present · near future · multiple cities · Washington, DC · New York City · Chicago · Japan · microscopic level · macro and micro worlds · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2721
A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States
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Distance: 0.2746
A dispatcher in a world where murder rarely sticks gets pulled into a deadly conspiracy that makes him a suspect.
Why this is here
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: 0.2766
A physicist vanishes after baffling seizures, pulling his wife and a detective into a race through science, money, and suspicion.
Why this is here
Setting labels: academic setting · university campus · lab setting · New Hampshire · Ivy League · state police · government involvement · contemporary setting · winter setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2766
A near-future U.S. crisis after a presidential death pulls politics, AI, and biotech into a race over humanity’s next stage.
Why this is here
Setting labels: United States · Washington, D.C. · Amazon rainforest · jungle laboratory · post-nuclear war · post-civil war tension · near future · 2054 · global geopolitical setting · urban political setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2779
An FBI agent hunts a brutal killer and uncovers a GM-crop conspiracy that may hide an alien threat to humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · global setting · United States · California · Washington DC · Norway · research lab · seed vault · FBI milieu · government milieu · corporate milieu · military milieu
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2794
In an alternate America without the internet, a misfit memoirist navigates a strange tech culture, family, and an eerie gift.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate America · present-day alternate reality · internetless world · greater Chicagoland · suburban setting · late 20th century background · contemporary America (alternate)
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2794
A biotech researcher’s forbidden experiment creates sentient cells that transform his body and then humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: biotechnology lab · modern-day America · North America · urban collapse · post-disaster landscape · lab-to-world scale
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2794
A new girl finds a mysterious bracelet that grants animal powers, drawing her into friends, secrets, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · Chicago · Arizona · suburbs · new town · middle school · school life · contemporary setting with speculative elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2799
