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Premise labels used: sinkhole survival, underground colony, cave escape, hidden world, adventure survival, wrong-place heroine, geology interest, peer pressure

Setting labels used: underground cave system, swamp, sinkhole, subterranean world, present day, small-town setting, real-world fantasy, subterranean society, bioluminescent beings

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Freefall

Roderick Gordon · 2009 · Tunnels

A teenage underground quest turns more dangerous as Will’s group falls deeper into a low-gravity hidden world.

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Premise labels: underground adventure · subterranean quest · journey to the center of the earth · survival quest · virus threat · lost civilization · ancient artifacts · hidden world

Setting labels: subterranean world · underground labyrinth · underworld · low gravity · center of the earth · surface world · hidden civilization · fantastical geology

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Distance: 0.1805

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Subterranean

James Rollins · 2007

An Antarctic expedition descends into hidden caverns, where a specialist team finds a lost world, monsters, and betrayal.

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Premise labels: subterranean exploration · lost civilization · first contact · scientific expedition · dangerous discovery · survival mission · mystery below ground · extreme environment · ancient secrets · unexplored world

Setting labels: Antarctica · underground caverns · subterranean world · volcanic setting · ice setting · isolated ecosystem · hidden civilization · science-fictional world · prehistoric environment · claustrophobic setting

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Distance: 0.1845

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The Delver

Tiffany Roberts · 2025 · The Vrix

A scarred underground delver and a bold human are trapped in a deadly cave system and forced into survival—and love.

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Premise labels: forbidden attraction · forced proximity · survival romance · underground journey · cave-in · protective hero · self-worth arc · mate bond

Setting labels: underground caves · dark tunnels · crystal caverns · alien world · bioluminescent environment · colonized world · nonhuman civilization

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Distance: 0.1862

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The Beast in the Cave

H.P. Lovecraft

A tourist gets lost in a dark cave and, as the light fails, a creeping presence turns fear into something worse.

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Premise labels: lost in cave · guided tour · unknown threat · fear of the unknown · isolated survival

Setting labels: cave system · underground · subterranean · darkness · Mammoth Cave

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Distance: 0.1904

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At the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1998 · Pellucidar

Two explorers drill into the Earth and discover Pellucidar, a perilous hidden world of dinosaurs, rulers, and romance.

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Premise labels: hollow earth · underground world · lost world · subterranean adventure · exploration gone wrong · civilization beneath the crust · survival adventure

Setting labels: Earth's core · inner earth · subterranean world · prehistoric world · eternal noon · hollow earth · savage lost world · polar access

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Distance: 0.1911

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He Who Fights with Monsters 10

Shirtaloon · 2023 · He Who Fights with Monsters

Jason and his allies descend underground into a volatile power struggle where factions, gods, and old loyalties collide.

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Premise labels: underground expedition · unstable power source · uneasy alliance · reluctant hero · faction conflict · survival mission · power struggle · loyalty test

Setting labels: subterranean setting · city in ruins · post-attack aftermath · hidden civilization · surface factions · fantasy world · underground cavern system

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Distance: 0.1974

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Us Dark Few

Alexis Patton · 2023 · Us Dark Few

A wrongfully sentenced prisoner in an underground dystopia must survive a brutal prison and a dangerous guard.

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Premise labels: wrongful conviction · prison survival · guard-prisoner · underground society · surface exile · forbidden knowledge · captive heroine · corrupt regime · escape to surface · survival romance

Setting labels: underground city · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · subterranean prison · domed elite city · radiation wasteland · controlled society · totalitarian state · post-collapse future · claustrophobic setting

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Distance: 0.1976

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The Silo Saga Omnibus

Hugh Howey · 2020

In a buried society ruled by strict laws, a mechanic uncovers buried truths that could bring the whole system down.

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Premise labels: underground society · sealed habitat · survival rules · forbidden outside · controlled community · mystery of the world · collapse backstory · reveal hidden history

Setting labels: underground silo · subterranean community · post-apocalyptic future · near future · toxic surface · claustrophobic setting · multi-level habitat · broken world

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Distance: 0.1984

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The Cavern

Alister Hodge · 2019

A caving expedition in the Australian outback uncovers a hidden predator, and the team must survive the dark below.

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Premise labels: sinkhole · cave expedition · monster hunt · survival horror · claustrophobia · hidden predator · exploration gone wrong · remote outback · underwater passages

Setting labels: Australian outback · small town · underground caves · abandoned mines · subterranean lake · underwater tunnels · remote wilderness · dark enclosed spaces

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Distance: 0.2004

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Nasterea

Petra Stehlíková · 2021 · Naslouchač

A young girl returns to a dark underground world, uncovering buried truths, rising threats, and more questions than answers.

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Premise labels: secret world · hidden world · truth quest · survival quest · mystery solving · journey to another side · post-collapse mystery

Setting labels: dark world · underground · other side · mountain setting · dystopian setting · fictional world · post-collapse world

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Distance: 0.2006

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The Luminous Dead

Caitlin Starling · 2019 · The Luminous Dead

A liar joins a solo cave expedition on an alien planet and must survive a deadly descent with only one unstable voice above.

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Premise labels: survival mission · cave expedition · alien planet · high-risk job · missing mother · secret agenda · remote handler · alone underground · trust crisis · psychological descent

Setting labels: alien planet · underground caves · mining colony · backwater planet · distant future · subterranean labyrinth · closed environment · darkness · isolated location · foreign planet · planetary surface (minor)

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Distance: 0.2027

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Satania

Fabien Vehlmann · 2017

A woman leads a subterranean rescue mission that spirals into a surreal, hellish world of creatures, belief, and change.

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Premise labels: search mission · missing sibling · underground expedition · journey to the center of the earth · search for hell · scientific quest · evolution vs belief · hidden civilization · first contact · rescue mission

Setting labels: subterranean world · underworld · hell-like realm · cave system · underground civilization · deep earth · fictional world · living underground ecosystem · psychedelic landscape · alternate reality

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Distance: 0.2039

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