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Premise labels used: last survivor, toxic air, mass extinction, immune protagonist, survival mystery, hidden society, underground civilization, truth-seeking, post-collapse world, end-of-humanity

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Earth, surface wasteland, underground city, civilian bunker, toxic atmosphere, future setting, collapsed society, government-controlled regime

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Ghosts

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2017 · Hell Divers

A surface mission in a ruined future Earth uncovers buried truths, mounting unrest, and a dangerous leader’s secrets.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · airship society · surface scavenging · missing signal · hidden secrets · betrayal · humanity survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · flying airship · surface wasteland · radiated wasteland · toxic planet · future Earth · destroyed world · closed society

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Distance: 0.1181

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Apocalypse

Kyle West · 2012 · The Wasteland Chronicles

A sheltered teen leaves his bunker after disaster and must survive a monster-haunted wasteland and a spreading virus.

Why this is here

Premise labels: apocalypse survival · bunker escape · post-collapse journey · viral outbreak · monster invasion · wasteland survival · coming of age · quarantine breach

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground bunker · wasteland · ruined earth · desolate landscape · surface survival · near-future · earth after impact

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1255

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The Extinction Trials

A.G. Riddle · 2021

Six strangers wake in a bunker after a world-ending event and must solve a survival experiment with hidden motives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: apocalypse survival · humanity restart · survival trial · mystery bunker · hidden experiment · trust no one · clue quest · escape journey · world-ending secret

Setting labels: underground facility · bunker · research facility · post-apocalyptic world · toxic atmosphere · island · future earth · near-extinction future · dystopian world

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Distance: 0.1297

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The Wool Trilogy

Hugh Howey · 2014 · Silo

In a sealed underground silo, a mechanic turned sheriff uncovers secrets that could upend the last human society.

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Premise labels: underground society · toxic world · last survivors · sealed habitat · truth uncovering · authority questioning · survival society · controlled knowledge · secret history · rebellion

Setting labels: underground silo · post-apocalyptic Earth · toxic surface · dystopian future · isolated society · vertical society · stratified levels · self-sustaining enclave · claustrophobic setting · future Earth · subterranean society

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Distance: 0.1352

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 2012 · Pure

In a nuclear-ravaged world split between Dome-dwellers and mutated survivors, two teens risk everything to find truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear aftermath · split society · survival quest · escape from dome · lost mother search · apocalyptic mutation · controlled enclave · outside world survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear holocaust aftermath · domed enclave · wasteland · ash-covered world · controlled society · ruined Earth · climate-controlled dome

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Distance: 0.1360

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Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

Yi Shi Si Zhou · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a ruined human base to recover his stolen spore while hiding from a deadly judge.

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Premise labels: sentient protagonist · identity concealment · stolen heirloom · search quest · nonhuman protagonist · post-collapse survival · mutant world · human infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · human bases · wasteland · mutated ecosystem · militarized society · cosmic radiation aftermath · ecological collapse · fortified enclaves

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Distance: 0.1379

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The Labyrinth

Simon Stålenhag · 2020

In a poisoned future Earth, three survivors leave an underground refuge on a surface mission that exposes buried sins.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · surface expedition · underground refuge · poisoned atmosphere · mysterious phenomenon · buried secrets · survival ethics · morally compromised survival · revenge · guilt

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground enclave · surface wasteland · Sweden · Scandinavia · alternate history · dystopian future · institutional interior · liminal spaces · ruins and ash · dead world

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Distance: 0.1391

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少女終末旅行 6 [Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou 6]

Tsukumizu · 2018 · 少女終末旅行 [Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou]

Two girls keep climbing through the ruins of civilization, finding meaning in survival, memory, and each other.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic journey · last survivors · upward journey · survival travel · ruined world exploration · search for civilization

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined city · layered city · industrial wasteland · dead civilization · near-empty world · war-damaged world · multi-level ruins

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Distance: 0.1450

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The Bane

Keary Taylor · 2013 · The Eden Trilogy

A memory-lost teen in a last human colony must survive a robot plague while choosing between two very different boys.

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Premise labels: human survival · last colony · robot infection · cybernetic plague · love triangle · hidden identity · memory loss · end of humanity · secret past

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · small colony · safe haven · countryside refuge · ruined cities · wilderness survival · human extinction crisis

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Distance: 0.1466

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Immobility

Brian Evenson · 2012

An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · cryogenic wake-up · paraplegic protagonist · wasteland quest · mysterious mission · survival task · retrieval mission · post-collapse survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · radiated wasteland · underground community · ruined city · toxic environment · nuclear aftermath · futuristic dystopia

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Distance: 0.1469

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Wool Omnibus

Hugh Howey · 2012 · Silo

In a sealed underground silo, a new leader uncovers dangerous secrets that could expose a hidden truth.

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Premise labels: underground survival · toxic outside · sealed society · forbidden curiosity · cleaning punishment · hidden truth · authoritarian control · post-disaster refuge · contained community

Setting labels: underground silo · post-apocalyptic Earth · toxic wasteland · closed system · vertical society · near future · subterranean community · self-contained habitat · hierarchical levels · limited outside view

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1475

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The Gypsy Morph

Terry Brooks · 2008 · Genesis of Shannara

In a ruined future Earth, survivors, elves, and magic-bearers race against demons to reach safety before the world ends.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · end times · chosen ones · quest · escorting survivors · bridge series · race against extinction · journey to safety · world transition

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · collapsed civilization · fortified compounds · toxic wasteland · mutated world · Earth-to-fantasy transition · fantasy realm · alternate history · future America · imaginary place

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Distance: 0.1487

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