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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Upgrade Soul.
Setting labels used: early 1990s, scientific laboratory, medical research setting, world like our own, domestic setting, high-tech experiment
Focused on “modern-day America” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A grieving scientist’s experiment with his dead wife’s cells awakens a terrifying force inside the human body.
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Setting labels: Japan · 1990s Japan · laboratory setting · hospital setting · medical research setting · academic setting · pharmaceutical research · cellular-scale reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1834
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2109
A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · medical setting · womb · China · scientific speculative world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2132
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: 0.2520
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: 0.2260
A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2280
A fertility doctor secretly engineers a genius child, then watches his experiment grow into a terrifying threat.
Why this is here
Setting labels: medical setting · laboratory setting · hospital setting · fertility clinic · biotech research · late 20th century · contemporary to publication · scientific realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2305
A disfigured scientist builds a lifelike mask and discovers it may free, split, or destroy his sense of self.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japan · 1960s Japan · Laboratory · Urban setting · Postwar setting · Modern society · Experimental science · Social world · Domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2419
A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · future society · laboratory setting · research center · human world · socially integrated technology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2440
A biotech thriller weaving together genetic experiments, patent fights, and transgenic animals in a near-present world.
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Setting labels: contemporary · near future · present-day science · biotech industry · laboratory setting · legal setting · corporate setting · urban setting · global · sci-fi realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2469
After a brutal accident, a teen is trapped in her mother’s biotech world and asked to design the perfect boy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · modern day · research facility · biotech lab · medical setting · high-tech company
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2479
A doctor pursues a baffling patient and uncovers a speculative mystery about the soul, memory, and past lives.
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Setting labels: contemporary Egypt · medical setting · clinic · laboratory · urban setting · rural villa · nonlinear time · multiple lives · past lives · scientific experimental setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2492
