Find similar books by
Combine common axes
These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Vector.
Setting labels used: New York City, 1990s, post-Soviet, urban, medical examiner setting, laboratory setting, clinical setting, bioweapons research, Soviet Union
Focused on “lab-to-world scale” 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 hospital psychologist and a neurologist probe near-death experiences, only to uncover a mystery that grows far stranger and deeper.
Why this is here
Setting labels: hospital setting · Denver · late 1990s · medical environment · lab setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2144
A grieving scientist’s experiment with his dead wife’s cells awakens a terrifying force inside the human body.
Why this is here
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: 0.2223
A starving Moscow stray becomes the subject of a reckless experiment, with grotesque and satirical fallout.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Soviet Moscow · 1920s Moscow · winter setting · urban streets · apartment interior · scientific laboratory · post-revolution society · early Soviet era
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2232
An amnesiac man wakes in 1999 and rebuilds his identity through diary fragments from a life shattered by history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: St Petersburg · hospital · early 20th century Russia · post-Soviet Russia · 1999 · Russian Revolution · Stalin era · Soviet labor camp
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2353
A Russian zoologist’s accidental scientific breakthrough is commandeered by the state, with disastrous results.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1920s Moscow · Soviet Russia · post-revolutionary Russia · near future · laboratory setting · rural countryside · state bureaucracy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2414
A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2430
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: 0.2454
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: 0.2882
A miniaturized rescue team races through a scientist’s body to remove a deadly clot before time runs out.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Cold War era · inside the human body · bloodstream · brain · carotid artery · microscopic scale · experimental sub
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2583
An elderly couple enters a risky rejuvenation experiment and must face the unsettling consequences of cloning, memory, and identity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: early 1990s · scientific laboratory · medical research setting · world like our own · domestic setting · high-tech experiment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2591
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: 0.2619
A young CDC doctor investigates linked Ebola outbreaks across the U.S. and uncovers a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Atlanta · CDC · United States · hospital setting · clinic setting · laboratory setting · 1980s · postmodern medical system · epidemic setting · aero/road travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2623
