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John Christopher

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Premise labels used: crop failure, food crisis, global famine, civilizational collapse, survival trek, government secrecy

Setting labels used: Britain, London, rural England, northern valley, post-collapse world

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Last Light

Alex Scarrow · 2007 · Last Light

When global oil supplies are severed, one family races through collapsing Britain and Iraq to survive and reunite.

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Premise labels: oil supply cutoff · civilizational collapse · family reunion · survival crisis · global breakdown · conspiracy behind disaster · resource dependency

Setting labels: Britain · London · Manchester · Iraq · Middle East · near future · post-apocalyptic · contemporary world · civilizational collapse · oil-dependent society

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Distance: 0.1660

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Flood

Stephen Baxter · 2008 · Flood

A near-future global flood forces four freed hostages to navigate a drowning world and humanity’s scramble to survive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: global flood · sea level rise · planetary catastrophe · survival · civilizational collapse · refugee crisis · end times

Setting labels: near future · 2016 · England · London · Spain · global scale · coastal cities · flooded world · post-collapse world · high ground

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Distance: 0.1807

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham · 1951 · Triffids

After a cosmic event blinds most of humanity, one sighted survivor must navigate collapsing society and deadly walking plants.

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Premise labels: mass blindness · survival after catastrophe · human collapse · killer plants · carnivorous plants · walking plants · bioengineered threat · post-collapse rebuilding · scarcity · societal breakdown · survivor groups

Setting labels: London · Britain · England · mid-century England · post-apocalyptic world · ruined cities · abandoned countryside · Cold War era · postwar Britain · Earth · hospital · countryside refuge

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Distance: 0.1907

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Autumn

David Moody · 2005 · Autumn

A deadly plague wipes out nearly everyone, then the dead begin to rise, forcing a few ordinary survivors to endure a changing world.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · mass mortality · survivor group · rising dead · end of civilization · survival crisis · human extinction · post-collapse survival

Setting labels: England · British setting · rural refuge · community center · farmhouse · post-collapse world · small-town setting · apocalypse aftermath · cold atmosphere · light and sound

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Distance: 0.1985

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This Fragile Earth

Susannah Wise · 2021

In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.

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Premise labels: tech collapse · system failure · family survival · mother and child · escape city · apocalypse survival · protect child · societal breakdown · near-future crisis · technology dependence · environmental collapse · survival journey

Setting labels: near future · London · British countryside · recognisable future · post collapse society · automated world · climate affected · tech dependent society · low-visibility threat · rural refuge · fragile civilization

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Distance: 0.2008

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The Protector's War

S.M. Stirling · 2006 · Emberverse

Years after technology fails worldwide, rival clans in Oregon face a looming war as new allies arrive from across the sea.

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Premise labels: technology failure · civilizational collapse · post-collapse survival · rebuilding society · feudal power struggle · territorial conflict · warlord rule · clan alliance · new world order · resource competition

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · alternate history · Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Willamette Valley · England · neo-feudal · medievalized future · global aftermath · tribal communities

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Distance: 0.2105

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A Meeting at Corvallis

S.M. Stirling · 2006 · Emberverse

In post-tech Oregon, rival factions edge toward war as hostage leverage, truce talks, and battlefield choices decide the region’s future.

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Premise labels: technology collapse · post-collapse survival · power struggle · feudal order · warlord conflict · truce talks · kidnapping crisis · territorial conflict · civilization regression · resource scarcity

Setting labels: western Oregon · Willamette Valley · Pacific Northwest · post-collapse world · post-technological society · neo-feudal society · alternate reality · years after the Change · rural survival

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Distance: 0.2127

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Rise of the RAMs

Christopher Artinian · 2017 · Safe Haven

In a quarantined UK overrun by fast-infected dead, siblings race north with other survivors toward a possible safe haven.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · quarantine collapse · survival journey · safe haven search · family protection · trust among survivors · infected dead

Setting labels: UK · England · Ireland · Leeds · Yorkshire · Scotland · quarantine zone · post-collapse world · isolated countryside

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Distance: 0.2137

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Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.

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Premise labels: sterile humanity · last generation · world without children · nuclear accident · civilizational collapse · nature reclaims world · aging population

Setting labels: near future · England · Oxford · Thames valley · post-apocalyptic world · river journey · quasi-medieval society · rural countryside · flooded landscape · reclaimed nature

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Distance: 0.2142

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Empty World

John Christopher · 1977

A teenage survivor navigates a nearly empty England after a deadly plague leaves him among the last people alive.

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Premise labels: deadly virus · last survivor · empty world · teen survival · loneliness · wilderness of civilization · search for survivors · resource scavenging · young survivors · pandemic aftermath

Setting labels: England · London · small English town · English coast · post-collapse · empty city · depopulated world · realist setting · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.2160

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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter · 2017

A new mother and her baby flee a flooded near-future London, finding love and survival amid upheaval.

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Premise labels: climate catastrophe · rising floodwaters · motherhood under crisis · newborn survival · refugee journey · family displacement · escape to safety · end-times backdrop · survival story · apocalyptic aftermath

Setting labels: near future · London · England · United Kingdom · flooded city · refugee camps · countryside refuge · mountain refuge · post-flood world · unstable world

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Distance: 0.2193

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Kings of a Dead World

Jamie Mollart · 2021

In a climate-ravaged near future, a society survives by sleeping most of the year, until its hidden order starts to crack.

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Premise labels: resource scarcity · climate collapse · enforced hibernation · population control · survival regime · hidden conspiracy · social collapse · class divide · revolutionary resistance

Setting labels: near future · futuristic Earth · futuristic Britain · climate-ravaged world · flooded coastlines · arid landscape · hibernating city · post-collapse society · surveillance state · controlled district

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Distance: 0.2200

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