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Premise labels used: space outbreak, zombie outbreak, survival horror, prison ship, derelict ship, infected survivors, boarding mission, escape narrative

Setting labels used: spaceship, prison ship, prison barge, derelict starship, Star Destroyer, deep space, galactic empire, claustrophobic setting

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Alien: Out of the Shadows

Tim Lebbon · 2014 · Alien: The Shadow Saga

A mining crew’s deep-space disaster draws Ripley back into a deadly xenomorph outbreak between Alien and Aliens.

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Premise labels: alien encounter · ship infestation · survival horror · mine disaster · corporate mission · android sabotage · space rescue · bridge story

Setting labels: deep space · mining vessel · planetary mine · space ship · isolated shipboard setting · future · between films · claustrophobic setting

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Aliens Dead Orbit

James Stokoe · 2018 · Aliens (comics)

After a station accident, one engineer must survive a deadly creature outbreak aboard a stranded spacecraft.

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Premise labels: space station · abandoned ship · creature attack · survival horror · claustrophobic horror · doomed crew · engineer protagonist · resource-limited survival

Setting labels: space station · spaceship · derelict vessel · deep space · isolated location · futuristic industrial setting · claustrophobic setting · blue-collar futurism · run-down station

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Alien: The Illustrated Story

Archie Goodwin, Walter Simonson · Aliens (comics)

A faithful, fast-moving graphic novelization of a sci-fi horror film, driven by claustrophobic space terror and striking art.

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Premise labels: space horror · monster hunt · survival horror · crew in peril · alien threat · quarantine danger · distress signal · spacecraft isolation

Setting labels: deep space · spaceship · isolated spacecraft · future setting · realistic future world · claustrophobic setting · outer space · industrial sci-fi

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Nightflyers

George R.R. Martin · 1988

A team of scientists on a deep-space quest boards a haunted ship, where an unseen captain and hidden killer turn crew distrust lethal.

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Premise labels: haunted ship · space expedition · first contact · alien chase · mystery onboard ship · crew killings · isolated crew · mysterious captain · ancient alien race · scientific mission · enigma · survival

Setting labels: deep space · spaceship · interstellar travel · future · far future · isolated ship · science mission · alien frontier · claustrophobic setting · spaceborne setting

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Léviathan, tome 3

Shiro Kuroi · 2023 · リバイアサン [Leviathan]

Teenagers trapped on a ruined spacecraft face a deadly survival game while a present-day search uncovers the truth.

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Premise labels: Survival game · Trapped group · Life-or-death contest · Space isolation · Shipwreck mystery · Journal framing · Truth unraveling · Human nature under pressure

Setting labels: Spaceship · Derelict ship · Deep space · School trip · Closed circle · Claustrophobic setting · Post-catastrophe · Space survival

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Distance: 0.1594

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Salvaged

Madeleine Roux · 2019

A disgraced space janitor boards a dead research ship and finds its crew alive, infected, and hiding a deadly alien secret.

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Premise labels: alien parasite · space salvage · infected crew · last-chance job · runaway protagonist · derelict ship · humanity at stake · corporate salvage

Setting labels: deep space · spaceship · derelict ship · research vessel · future setting · isolated location · corporate spacefaring

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Salvation Day

Kali Wallace · 2019

A hostage-taking crew boards a quarantined spaceship, only to awaken a buried threat and a government secret.

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Premise labels: derelict spaceship · abandoned ship · deadly virus · hostage mission · ship takeover · genetic access key · government secret · survival mission · quarantined vessel · contained threat · reclaiming a ship · search for a new home

Setting labels: space · abandoned spacecraft · generation ship · post-apocalyptic future · post-collapse future · dystopian future · orbiting ship · desert wastelands · moon travel · quarantine · closed setting · claustrophobic setting · microgravity · deep space

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Alien

Alan Dean Foster · 1979 · Alien Movie Novelizations

A spaceship crew answers a distress call on an unknown planet and wakes a deadly alien threat aboard their ship.

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Premise labels: space crew · distress signal · unknown planet · alien threat · survival horror · isolated crew

Setting labels: spacecraft · cryogenic sleep · derelict alien ship · unknown planet · outer space · claustrophobic setting · future setting

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The Scourge Between Stars

Ness Brown · 2023

A queer acting captain must save a failing generation ship from mutiny and a hidden killer in deep space.

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Premise labels: generation ship · doomed voyage · survival crisis · monster on ship · homecoming mission · unknown intruder · resource scarcity · mutiny

Setting labels: generation ship · deep space · claustrophobic setting · interstellar travel · failed colony aftermath · return to Earth · distant future · shipboard setting

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We Have Always Been Here

Lena Nguyen · 2021

On a cut-off survey ship, a psychologist investigates crew madness while androids, secrets, and an icy world turn uncanny.

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Premise labels: locked spaceship · mysterious illness · crew madness · android-human tension · colonization mission · psychological monitoring · hidden mission · planetary anomaly

Setting labels: spaceship · icy planet · unexplored galaxy · distant future · space colony regime · Earth biodome · post-apocalyptic Earth · claustrophobic setting

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Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens

Stephen Cole · 2003 · Past Doctor Adventures

The First Doctor, Ben, and Polly are trapped with space soldiers on an asteroid where dead aliens and paranoia multiply.

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Premise labels: space marines · closed-circle mystery · alien bodies · training mission · deadly hidden enemy · paranoia · isolated location · murder mystery · space horror · claustrophobic survival

Setting labels: asteroid · hollowed-out moon · Earth empire · military outpost · deep space · colonial space · distant future · labyrinthine tunnels · claustrophobic setting

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Cold Eternity

S.A. Barnes · 2025

A disgraced woman hides on a derelict cryo-ship, only to find the dead, the AI, and the ship itself may not be as dormant as թվում.

Why this is here

Premise labels: space isolation · run from scandal · hidden past · caretaker job · cryogenic bodies · ghost ship · haunted spaceship · wrong place wrong time · survival horror · political cover-up

Setting labels: spaceship · space barge · derelict ship · isolated facility · future space setting · distant future · cryogenic storage · floating mausoleum · abandoned vessel · off-world

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Distance: 0.1763

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