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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Blood Music.
Setting labels used: biotechnology lab, modern-day America, North America, urban collapse, post-disaster landscape, lab-to-world scale
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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: 0.1632
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: 0.1755
An escaped lab-made bird-human hybrid crosses a ruined world, seeking freedom, kinship, and a place to belong.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · biotech wasteland · laboratory setting · ruined cities · collapsed civilization · same world as Borne · speculative future
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Distance: 0.1918
A lab biologist is trapped in a biotech siege that may be the hidden start of a zombie apocalypse.
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Setting labels: biotech lab · biomedical facility · city under collapse · near-future apocalypse · flu epidemic backdrop · contained siege setting · workplace takeover
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Distance: 0.1939
A superflu wipes out most of humanity, and the survivors are pulled into a struggle between opposing forces of good and evil.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · biological disaster · desert communities · Boulder community · Las Vegas community · lab-origin catastrophe
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Distance: 0.1971
A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.
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Setting labels: dystopian future · global crisis · worldwide collapse · laboratory setting · Mexico · United States · apocalyptic Earth
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Distance: 0.1971
A deadly flu wipes out most of America, forcing a handful of survivors toward opposing visions of the future.
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Setting labels: United States · global pandemic · secret military laboratory · post-apocalyptic world · urban and rural America
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Distance: 0.1986
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
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Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
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Distance: 0.2353
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: 0.2055
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
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Distance: 0.2129
An orphan girl in a ruined future city sets out to uncover the truth about her family and the world that survived collapse.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future North America · mobile cities · wilderness · depleted world · high-tech remnant world · post-industrial collapse
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Distance: 0.2151
A nonhuman scientist raises the first human child in centuries to determine whether humanity deserves a second chance.
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Setting labels: future Earth · post-human Earth · climate-repaired world · biotech world · near-future · distant future · speculative future
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Distance: 0.2183
