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Premise labels used: android hunt, identity crisis, empathy test, post-war wasteland, artificial life, status-symbol animals, fugitive androids, human-machine boundary

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Earth, radioactive wasteland, San Francisco, off-world colonies, near future, nuclear fallout, Mars colonies, dying Earth

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 2008 · Blade Runner

A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.

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Premise labels: android hunt · identity crisis · post-apocalyptic survival · humanity test · empathy test · animal scarcity · fugitive androids · bounty hunter · false humanity · artificial life

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · San Francisco · Mars colony · nuclear fallout · radioactive dust · off-world colonies · dystopian future · future Earth · blighted urban wasteland · post-war

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Second Variety

Philip K. Dick · 2010

In a nuclear wasteland, soldiers face self-evolving war robots that can imitate humans—and may already be among them.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic war · killer robots · self-replicating technology · human imposters · imposter hunt · survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · Cold War era · moon base · war bunker · radioactive landscape

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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · 2018 · LIFEL1K3

A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.

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Premise labels: robot rebellion · android outlaw · human-like AI · mutant powers · on the run · identity mystery · found family · protective quest · corporate control · gladiator combat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · radioactive wasteland · desert wasteland · scrapyard setting · ruined megacities · island setting · future Earth · corporate dystopia · post-nuclear future · slum setting

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Service Model

A protocol-bound robot valet kills his master and wanders a collapsed future world searching for purpose.

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Premise labels: robot valet · murder mystery · purpose search · employment quest · post-human world · artificial labor · self-discovery · autonomy

Setting labels: future Earth · dystopian wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · post-human world · robot-run society · collapsed civilization · manor house · decaying infrastructure

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The Last Human

Lee Bacon · 2019 · The Last Human

A rule-bound robot discovers a living human girl and must choose between protocol and helping her survive.

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Premise labels: robot uprising · last human · forbidden human · quest · road trip · unlikely allies · questioning propaganda · cross-species friendship · hidden survivors · planetary recovery

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic · robot society · solar power · ruined world · underground bunkers · environmental recovery · totalitarian society · near-future

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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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Sea of Rust

C. Robert Cargill · 2017 · Sea of Rust

A scavenger robot fights to survive a post-human wasteland while rival machine collectives hunt independent minds.

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Premise labels: robot apocalypse · post-human world · survival quest · scavenger protagonist · AI uprising · rogue AIs · free robots · resource scarcity · individuality vs collective · identity crisis · existential survival · robot civil war

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · human extinction · wasteland · desert landscape · Rust Belt · Midwest · North America · ruined cities · robot western · Mad Max-like wasteland · post-human future

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TRUEL1F3

Jay Kristoff · 2020 · LIFEL1K3

In a war-torn future, rival factions, robots, and betrayed friends race to decide who gets freedom and who survives.

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Premise labels: friends to enemies · identity crisis · robot liberation · corporate war · chosen sides · free will · humanity question

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear-blasted future · corporate-controlled society · wasteland · city-state conflict · near-future

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 2004 · Mortal Engines Quartet

In a post-apocalyptic future, mobile cities hunt and eat smaller settlements, trapping two teens in a deadly chase.

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Premise labels: mobile cities · city predation · resource scarcity · post-apocalyptic survival · anti-tractionist conflict · revenge quest · fugitive pursuit · urban hierarchy

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · dried-out wasteland · mobile cities · traction cities · ruined landscape · European continent · London · out-county · airships · alternate future

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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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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer · 2026

An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.

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Premise labels: robot quest · stolen limb · post-apocalyptic recovery · found family · AI autonomy · road trip · conspiracy · past reckoning · survival

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · United States · New York City · New York Botanical Gardens · ruins · collapsed society · shared human-machine world

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Anomaly

Krista McGee · 2013 · Anomaly

In a post-nuclear underground society, an emotion-filled girl becomes a test subject and uncovers truths about God, love, and her world.

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Premise labels: emotionless society · post-nuclear survival · genetically engineered humanity · anomalous protagonist · forbidden emotion · test subject · truth seeking · faith awakening · controlled underground society · music-triggered discovery

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · underground society · post-nuclear war · controlled pods · scientific living space · toxic surface · futuristic world · closed society · survivalist colony

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