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Joelle Anthony

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Premise labels used: family rescue, cross-border journey, post-collapse survival, resource scarcity, stranded relative, crime-controlled city, homecoming quest, self-sufficient community, music as aid

Setting labels used: near future, 2041, post-collapse world, Pacific Northwest, Canada, United States, British Columbia, Portland, Portland suburbs, abandoned cities, isolated island, agrarian community, rural setting, urban decay, border crossing, post-oil society

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The After War

Brandon Zenner · The After War

Two survivor groups leave hidden refuges after apocalypse and disease, crossing a ruined continent toward family and a changed world.

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Premise labels: post-apocalypse · survival journey · reunion quest · family search · cross-country trek · survivalist · bunker emergence · cabin isolation · dog companion · rebuilding society

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · North America · United States · Canada · British Columbia · underground bunker · remote cabin · desolate landscape · blighted towns · fortified towns · isolated communities · wilderness · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1568

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The Lightest Object in the Universe

Kimi Eisele · 2019

After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.

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Premise labels: grid failure · societal collapse · cross-country search · lost lovers · rebuilding community · survival · hope after collapse · post-collapse adaptation · finding home · communication breakdown

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age

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Distance: 0.1641

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The Shutouts

Gabrielle Korn · 2024

In a climate-ravaged future, separated women and families race across the U.S., uncovering the costs of survival and control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate apocalypse · survival journey · post-collapse society · community margins · family reunion · resistance · wilderness travel · government conspiracy

Setting labels: near future · United States · wilderness · North America · climate-ravaged world · post-apocalyptic world · isolated settlement · survivalist community · commune · Inside Project

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Distance: 0.1719

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Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 1993 · Earthseed

In near-future California, a hyperempathetic teen survives collapse, then forges a new faith and a path north.

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Premise labels: near-future collapse · survival journey · walled community · resource scarcity · founding a religion · community rebuilding · refugee travel · social breakdown

Setting labels: near future · California · Los Angeles outskirts · walled enclave · post-apocalyptic America · drought-stricken world · lawless society · failed state

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Distance: 0.1730

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The Dead Lands

Benjamin Percy · 2015

In a ruined America, two allies leave a fortress city after a stranger’s warning and cross a deadly wasteland westward.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · walled city · outside world revelation · survival journey · search for refuge · expedition · rebuilding society

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined United States · walled city · former St. Louis · wasteland · dead lands · Oregon route · far future · dystopian future · irradiated landscape · mutated ecosystem

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Distance: 0.1730

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Into the Forest

Jean Hegland · 1996

After civilization collapses, two orphaned sisters in a Northern California forest must learn survival, loss, and change.

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Premise labels: civilization collapse · survival story · sisters alone · off-grid survival · resource scarcity · family survival · apocalypse aftermath · self-sufficiency · wilderness survival · end of the world

Setting labels: near future · Northern California · redwood forest · rural isolation · off-grid home · post-collapse world · post-electricity · forest homestead · sparsely populated · American apocalypse

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Distance: 0.1732

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The Perseid Collapse

Steven Konkoly · 2013 · Alex Fletcher

A prepared ex-Marine races through a collapsing America to reunite his family after a catastrophic strike.

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Premise labels: collapse event · family rescue mission · prepper survival · infrastructure breakdown · post-apocalyptic journey · save family

Setting labels: United States · New England · Boston · Maine · coastal disaster zone · near-future · post-collapse reality

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Distance: 0.1749

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The Sunrise Lands

S.M. Stirling · 2007 · Emberverse

In a techless post-Change America, Rudi Mackenzie joins a continent-spanning quest to uncover the event’s secret.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · technology collapse · next generation · mysterious event · civilizational recovery · prophecy quest · journey across a continent

Setting labels: post-Change America · Pacific Northwest · Oregon · western Oregon · former United States · former Washington · former Oregon · continent-spanning journey · post-technological world · medievalized future

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Distance: 0.1770

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The Ancients

John Larison · 2024

In a climate-ravaged far future, three entwined journeys chase survival, reunion, and power as civilization frays.

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Premise labels: survival journey · family separation · climate collapse · tribal conflict · class divide · forbidden love · inheritance burden · escape plan · resource scarcity · civilization rebuild

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic world · climate-changed world · primitive future · bronze age feel · wilderness · coastal village · decaying port city · last city · empire in decline · nomadic communities · hunter-gatherer society

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Distance: 0.1788

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The Arrest

Jonathan Lethem · 2020

In a Maine farm community after technology stops working, a writer’s past returns in a strange nuclear-powered vehicle.

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Premise labels: technology shutdown · post-apocalyptic community · survivor enclave · outsider disruption · rural self-sufficiency · friction with past

Setting labels: rural Maine · coastal Maine · peninsula community · post-collapse America · near future · small fictional town · fragmented United States · post-technological world

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Distance: 0.1790

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell · 2022

Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · ecological collapse · community survival · adaptation · resilience · resource scarcity · knowledge preservation · art under pressure · living architecture · intergenerational survival · local resilience · post-apocalypse

Setting labels: Vancouver Island · British Columbia · Canada · West Coast Canada · Pacific Northwest · Cowichan Valley · near future · late 21st century · early 22nd century · post-pandemic · post-collapse · isolated community · small town · suburb · flooded infrastructure · climate-ravaged future · partially globalized future · space-age backdrop

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Blood Honor

Russell Blake · 2016 · The Day After Never

Five years after a plague collapse, a former Texas Ranger is pulled into a dangerous rescue across a lawless wasteland.

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Premise labels: post-collapse survival · plague aftermath · wasteland survival · rescuer mission · desperate protection · lawless society

Setting labels: post-collapse future · Texas · New Mexico · Southwest · rural frontier · lawless frontier · pandemic aftermath · small towns · borderlands · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1803

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