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Alice Hoffman

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Premise labels used: grief recovery, survival after disaster, family loss, coming of age, identity rebuilding, healing journey

Setting labels used: unnamed town, unnamed city, country setting, post-disaster landscape, ash-covered world, lawless setting

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City of Orange

David Yoon · 2022

An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.

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Premise labels: amnesia · post-apocalyptic survival · memory loss · grief · identity mystery · survival journey · end of the world

Setting labels: apocalyptic landscape · post-apocalyptic world · wasteland · desert · river basin · drained channel · concrete culvert · burned-out houses · abandoned housing development

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1884

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The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta · 2011

After a mass disappearance upends a suburban town, the survivors struggle with grief, cults, and unfinished lives.

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Premise labels: mass disappearance · left behind · grief aftermath · post-rapture · survivor crisis · community trauma · family fracture · meaning-making

Setting labels: small town · suburban setting · contemporary America · post-disaster world · post-rapture world · apocalyptic aftermath · fictional town · worldwide event

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1892

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My Name is Monster

Katie Hale · 2019

A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.

Why this is here

Premise labels: last survivor · post-collapse survival · lonely journey · feral child · found family · motherhood · identity shift · creation and creation · new worldbuilding · self-sufficiency

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · isolated landscape · Scotland · Arctic vault · seed bank · farm · abandoned city · ruined world · empty world · contemporary near-future

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Distance: 0.2032

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The Warren

Brian Evenson · 2016

An amnesiac, many-minded survivor in a sealed refuge questions his humanity after finding another person outside.

Why this is here

Premise labels: identity crisis · multiple selves · memory loss · humanity question · last survivor · underground refuge · hostile surface · post-human survival · personhood test · alienation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · unnamed planet · underground shelter · hostile wasteland · toxic surface · remote outpost · isolated habitat

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Distance: 0.2108

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In the Country of Last Things

Paul Auster · 1992

A young woman writes from a collapsing city while scavenging to survive and searching for her missing brother.

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Premise labels: missing sibling · survival quest · collapsing city · urban breakdown · post-collapse society · scavenging economy · letter narrative

Setting labels: unnamed city · unnamed country · post-collapse urban setting · resource scarcity · harsh winter · unstable government · anonymous future

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Distance: 0.2163

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The Doloriad

Missouri Williams · 2022

A ruined-world family ruled by a fearsome matriarch struggles to survive, repopulate, and hold power together.

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Premise labels: post-apocalypse · survivor community · incest family · repopulation drive · scavenging survival · failed new society · fragile order · outside survivors · broken civilization · environmental catastrophe

Setting labels: unnamed Prague outskirts · post-apocalyptic future · deserted city · ruins · forest edge · catacombs · ruined built environment · dead world · apocalyptic wasteland

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Distance: 0.2176

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We Called Them Giants

Kieron Gillen · 2024

A foster teen surviving a vanished world confronts gangs, scarcity, and mysterious giant visitors she cannot understand.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · post-apocalypse · first contact · mysterious visitors · communication barrier · found family · trust

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · end of the world · abandoned city · ruined civilization · winter landscape · Earth · suburban landscape · hostile wasteland

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Distance: 0.2179

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Scorch Atlas

Blake Butler · 2009

Interlinked stories follow families enduring a series of surreal apocalypses in a bleak, language-driven vision of America.

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Premise labels: apocalypse · multiple cataclysms · survival after disaster · familial loss · personal apocalypse · end-times America · world collapse

Setting labels: America · ruined America · post-apocalyptic world · unnamed locations · timeless setting · place-unspecified setting · dystopian landscape · wasteland · suburban collapse · familial domestic spaces

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Distance: 0.2197

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The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Manu Larcenet · 2024

A father and son cross a devastated world, trying to stay alive and human amid hunger, cold, and cannibalism.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · father and son · humanity intact · wasteland journey · cannibalism · survival against collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · wasteland · collapsed civilization · cold landscape · ash-covered world · southward journey

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Distance: 0.2200

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Catfish Rolling

Clara Kumagai · 2023

After an earthquake fractures time in Japan, a grieving teen searches the zones for her missing mother and father.

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Premise labels: grief journey · missing parent · earthquake aftermath · time fracture · liminal spaces · family search · identity conflict · coming of age

Setting labels: Japan · contemporary Japan · post-earthquake Japan · time zones · liminal spaces · abandoned zones · rural hometown · Tokyo · scientific research spaces · nature-tinged setting

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Distance: 0.2204

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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

Chris Bohjalian · 2014

A teen runaway survives a nuclear meltdown’s fallout, grief, and blame while trying to reinvent herself.

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Premise labels: teen runaway · nuclear disaster · homeless survival · false blame · identity reinvention · grief aftermath · street survival · found family

Setting labels: Vermont · Burlington · rural Vermont · nuclear town · post-disaster aftermath · contamination zone · homeless street life · evacuation site · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2249

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The Book of M

Peng Shepherd · 2018

In a near-future world, people lose their shadows—and then their memories—forcing lovers and survivors to chase answers.

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Premise labels: shadow loss · memory loss · apocalyptic epidemic · identity erosion · survival quest · search for loved one · reality bending · cure quest · road journey

Setting labels: near future · post apocalyptic world · collapsed civilization · lawless cities · woods · abandoned hotel · America · India · Boston · Washington DC · New Orleans · Virginia · urban ruins · road trip setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2259

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