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Premise labels used: underground lab, virology lab, post-apocalypse survival, lab attack, spy infiltration, mysterious intruder, scientific crisis, outlaw science

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic America, zombie apocalypse, underground lab, illegal lab, scientific compound, forest lab, alternate Earth, post-Rising, post-series

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Marked Omega

Lizzy Bequin · 2020 · Quarantine Omega

A scientist trapped in a quarantine zone is transformed and claimed by three alphas in a dangerous, steamy new world.

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Premise labels: quarantine zone · bait and capture · scientific experiment · forced transformation · mate claim · alpha omega dynamics · virus mutation · corporate conspiracy · rescue mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · quarantine zone · walled city · hive city · contaminated forest · alternate Earth · dystopian future · mutated society · isolated colony

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Distance: 0.1771

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Juniper Unraveling

Keri Lake · 2017 · Juniper Unraveling

In a virus-ravaged world split by walls, a young survivor and a mute boy become bound by love and dangerous secrets.

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Premise labels: survival · love under pressure · wall divide · infected society · forbidden contact · research facility · escaped prisoner · hidden truth · post-virus world

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · wall-separated community · infected zone · research compound · laboratory setting · survival society · ruined civilization · virus outbreak · future setting · deadly contagion

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Distance: 0.1790

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin · 2012 · The Passage

As a viral apocalypse unfolds across timelines, survivors race to stop the originals and protect what remains of humanity.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · end times · survival quest · vampire apocalypse · human experimentation · hunt the originals · post-collapse struggle · save humanity · immortality pursuit · power struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · present day · near future · far future · year zero · apocalypse aftermath · collapsed society · human survival camp · militarized society

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Distance: 0.1805

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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.

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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

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Distance: 0.1852

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Coldbrook

Tim Lebbon · 2014

A secret lab opens a doorway to another Earth, unleashing an infection that turns survival into a multiverse-wide crisis.

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Premise labels: secret laboratory · alternate Earth · portal accident · zombie outbreak · infection spread · cure hunt · immune survivor · multiverse crisis · scientific breakthrough

Setting labels: Appalachian Mountains · hidden research facility · underground lab · alternate Earth · multiverse · post-collapse world · apocalyptic future · top-secret facility · contemporary Earth

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Distance: 0.1871

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Born to Fight

Tara Brown, A.E. Watson · 2013 · Born

A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.

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Premise labels: captivity escape · revenge quest · genetic experiment · forced mutation · survival struggle · family secret · love triangle · zombie outbreak · mad scientist · corrupt government

Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse

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Distance: 0.1886

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Little Mushroom: Revelations

Yi Shi Si Zhou, 一十四洲 · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a human base to recover his spore, only to face a wary judge and an unraveling apocalypse.

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Premise labels: lost spore · identity concealment · xenogenic infiltration · human base · apocalypse survival · forbidden attraction · final trial

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · decaying universe · human base · Northern Base · walled cities · underground cities · desolate land · highly mutated world · scientific apocalypse · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1920

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Hunger

Jeremiah Knight, Jeremy Robinson · 2015 · Hunger

A GMO breakthrough ends world hunger, then rewrites every eater into a monster in a desperate survival chase.

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Premise labels: runaway science · bioengineering gone wrong · food supply crisis · genetic mutation outbreak · survival quest · cross-country journey · monster apocalypse · corporate science disaster · predator transformation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · United States · cross-country · farmhouse · biodome · scientific complex · lab quest · monstrous wilderness · collapsed civilization

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Distance: 0.1951

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The Boy on the Bridge

M.R. Carey · 2017 · The Girl With All the Gifts

A scientist-led expedition in a zombie-plagued Britain searches for a cure while a brilliant boy discovers something the others miss.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · plague search · cure quest · expedition mission · scientific investigation · survival mission · fungal infection · post-collapse humanity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Britain · mobile laboratory · road journey · wasteland · ruined civilization · isolated stronghold · field expedition · virus outbreak world

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Distance: 0.1983

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The Maze Runner Trilogy

James Dashner · 2013 · The Maze Runner

An amnesiac teen wakes in a deadly maze, then faces escalating trials in a post-apocalyptic world built on secrets.

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Premise labels: amnesia survival · maze escape · deadly trials · cure quest · post-apocalyptic survival · mystery box · scientific experiment · controlled environment · escape and pursuit

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · maze enclosure · wasteland · dystopian future · desolate landscape · isolated compound · survival arena · ruined Earth · scientific facility · teen society

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Distance: 0.1995

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Victim Zero

Joshua Guess · 2013 · The Fall

A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.

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Premise labels: bioengineered outbreak · scientist protagonist · accidental apocalypse · cure quest · virus mutation · airborne infection · post-apocalyptic survival · moral dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States

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Distance: 0.2003

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This Mortal Coil

Emily Suvada · 2017 · This Mortal Coil

A teen hacker must decode her father’s hidden cure in a post-plague world ruled by gene tech and dangerous secrets.

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Premise labels: deadly plague · vaccine quest · genetic tech · hacker heroine · shadow organization · save humanity · body-hacking · coded message · last hope · survival mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · futuristic · underground shelters · Canada · United States · corp-controlled society · biotech future · flooded with tech · future earth

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Distance: 0.2012

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