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

Themes labels used: fragility of civilization, survival ethics, human nature, morality under pressure, scarcity, authority breakdown, private security, state failure, fear of the other, gender inequality, class tensions, violence as necessity, veneer of civilization, food dependency, resource scarcity

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The Drought

J.G. Ballard · 2002

As global drought turns water into a scarce currency, a detached doctor is swept into society’s collapse and survival scramble.

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Premise labels: global drought · water scarcity · climate catastrophe · civilization collapse · survival struggle · exodus to coast · resource hoarding · end times

Themes labels: ecological collapse · human misuse · survival ethics · civilizational decline · alienation · isolation · identity loss · moral breakdown · resource scarcity · social regression · violence · insanity · adaptation · human nature · nature vs technology · fragility of civilization · climate warning · scarcity economies · collapse of law · dehumanization · inner space · apocalypse psychology · time perception

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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.

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

Themes labels: survival · environmental collapse · human migration · civilizational fragility · social breakdown · adaptation · humanity vs nature · resource scarcity · displacement · inequality · morality under crisis · apocalypse

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Zero Day Code

John Birmingham · 2019 · End of Days

A near-future cyberattack cripples food and infrastructure systems, sending multiple survivors into a rapid societal collapse.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · supply chain collapse · food scarcity · societal collapse · near-future apocalypse · infrastructure failure · civilizational breakdown · global crisis

Themes labels: food insecurity · civilizational fragility · technology dependence · supply chains · survival · human nature · panic · preparedness · climate pressure · geopolitics · war · social breakdown · media manipulation · patriotism · race and bigotry · sexism · everyday vulnerability

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The Scarlet Plague

Jack London · 1986

An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.

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Premise labels: pandemic collapse · post-apocalyptic survival · civilizational collapse · survivor testimony · knowledge loss · primitive regression · end of civilization

Themes labels: fragility of civilization · memory and forgetting · loss of knowledge · science and superstition · human savagery · social regression · survival instinct · inequality · class conflict · fatalism · cyclical history · nature versus civilization · civilization and decay · catastrophe and renewal · human nature

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Downward Cycle

J.K. Franks · 2016 · Catalyst

After a solar flare knocks out power worldwide, a coastal-town loner and new allies fight chaos, conspiracies, and control.

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Premise labels: global blackout · solar flare disaster · civilization collapse · survival crisis · prepper scenario · government conspiracy · small-town survival · resource scarcity · lawless breakdown · military control

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · social breakdown · human nature · loss of normalcy · self-reliance · cooperation · morality under pressure · government distrust · conspiracy · end of civilization · resource scarcity · order versus chaos · violence · resilience · technology dependence · social class

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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

Themes labels: oil dependence · resource scarcity · civilizational fragility · social collapse · survival · family loyalty · globalization · consumerism · preparedness · public panic · law and order · power and control · conspiracy · human savagery · political cynicism · environmental anxiety · sustainability · interdependence

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Dies the Fire

S.M. Stirling · 2005 · Emberverse

After a global tech collapse, survivors in the Pacific Northwest rebuild through survival skills, clans, and new power struggles.

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Premise labels: civilization collapse · technology failure · post-collapse survival · survival communities · new feudalism

Themes labels: civilization fragility · adaptation · survival · resource scarcity · leadership · community · self-reliance · social regression · technology dependence · religion after collapse · power and violence · law and order · farming · trade skills · moral breakdown

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When the English Fall

David Williams · 2017

After a solar storm wipes out modern power, an Amish farmer’s diary tracks faith, survival, and pressure from desperate outsiders.

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Premise labels: civilizational collapse · survival · community resilience · nonviolence under pressure · faith under crisis · outsider pressure · resource scarcity · social breakdown

Themes labels: faith · nonviolence · survival ethics · community · sacrifice · civilization fragility · preparedness · scarcity · generosity · neighborliness · moral choice · prayer · providence · human nature · identity · tradition · modernity critique · technology dependence · isolation · resilience · peace under pressure · responsibility · duty · apocalypse and belief

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Patriots

James Wesley, Rawles · 2006 · The Coming Collapse

A prepper group rides out a U.S. collapse from a fortified Idaho retreat, mixing survival tactics with political conflict.

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Premise labels: economic collapse · societal collapse · survivalism · bug-out · fortified retreat · constitutional restoration · post-collapse recovery

Themes labels: preparedness · self-reliance · survival · collapse anxiety · civilization breakdown · rule of law · constitutionalism · religion and morality · anti-government sentiment · class privilege · trust and distrust · charity · resource scarcity · fear of looters · economic instability

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CyberStorm

Matthew Mather · 2013 · CyberStorm

A cyberattack and blizzard trap a New York father, forcing his family and neighbors to survive a collapsing city.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · grid collapse · infrastructure failure · survival under siege · city blackout · resource scarcity · family survival · communication blackout · information blackout · civil breakdown · catastrophe chain · technology dependence · preparedness

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · technology dependence · infrastructure vulnerability · social collapse · human nature · panic · resource scarcity · family loyalty · community solidarity · fear and paranoia · privacy and security · civil liberties · misinformation · blame and scapegoating · resilience · morality under pressure · civilization fragility

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Under a Tell-Tale Sky

R.E. McDermott · 2015 · Disruption

After a solar storm collapses the grid, a ship captain and scattered survivors struggle through violence, scarcity, and corruption.

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Premise labels: grid collapse · solar storm · EMP event · power outage · resource scarcity · societal collapse · government corruption · survival journey · family reunion · shipboard survival

Themes labels: civilizational collapse · resource scarcity · state corruption · survivalism · preparedness · family · community · trust in government · human frailty · lawlessness · leadership · adaptation · public order breakdown · realism · resilience

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The Rule of Three

Eric Walters · 2014 · The Rule of Three

When a global blackout kills modern technology, a teen and his neighborhood must improvise to survive.

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Premise labels: power outage · technology collapse · societal breakdown · survival crisis · neighborhood defense · resource scarcity · community survival · civilization collapse · end of electricity · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: technology dependence · community cooperation · survival ethics · panic and fear · preparedness · mob mentality · leadership under pressure · resource sharing · morality in crisis · civilization fragility · trust

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