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Setting labels used: contemporary, near future, present-day science, biotech industry, laboratory setting, legal setting, corporate setting, urban setting, global, sci-fi realism
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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: 0.1151
A grieving scientist tests a limited time-travel device that only observes her past, until reality begins to shift.
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Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · corporate research setting · tech company setting · time travel lab · domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1275
After a brutal accident, a teen is trapped in her mother’s biotech world and asked to design the perfect boy.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · modern day · research facility · biotech lab · medical setting · high-tech company
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1425
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: 0.1516
Eight Korean sci-fi stories explore AI, immortality, grief, and social injustice in bleak, wry near-future worlds.
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Setting labels: near future · distant future · post-apocalyptic · posthuman · dystopian · spacefaring · corporate setting · urban apartment building · desolate planet
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1528
A corporate simulation designer starts doubting reality itself after a death and a string of impossible disappearances.
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Setting labels: near-future · corporate laboratory · simulated world · higher reality · urban futurism · technological reality
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Distance: 0.1547
An FDA investigator probes a sleep-ending drug whose promise hides deadly secrets, corruption, and murder.
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Setting labels: contemporary · corporate setting · medical research · FDA environment · laboratory setting
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Distance: 0.1578
A disgraced physicist is thrust into a bizarre multiverse quest after an inheritance unlocks reality-bending secrets.
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Setting labels: contemporary setting · multiverse · parallel realities · urban setting · scientific setting · hotel setting · alternate worlds · near-future science
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Distance: 0.1586
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An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.
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Setting labels: Japanese setting · government laboratory · secret facility · urban setting · contemporary setting · science fiction reality · speculative biology
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Distance: 0.1618
A documentary crew probes a reclusive family whose uncanny foresight hides a disturbing cost.
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Setting labels: contemporary · near-present · documentary research setting · corporate/financial world · speculative reality · future-knowledge premise
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1618
A young scientist is coerced into a spy mission after a mind-linking nano-drug becomes a global security threat.
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Setting labels: near future · 2040 · mid-21st century · San Francisco · Bangkok · Shanghai · Washington DC · Thailand · international setting · academic setting · biotech world · high tech future · recognizable future · posthuman future · global conspiracy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1618
A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.
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Setting labels: near future · laboratory setting · medical setting · womb · China · scientific speculative world
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Distance: 0.1624
