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Premise labels used: survival, catastrophe, infected faction, faction conflict, family search, daughter quest, apocalypse, war for survival, infiltration

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, England, London, city centers, quarantine zones, refugee areas, war zone, ravaged landscape

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Them or Us

David Moody · 2011 · Hater

In a ruined, faction-riven world, one damaged survivor is forced into dangerous service as the last hope narrows.

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Premise labels: apocalyptic survival · societal collapse · plague divide · infected versus uninfected · hunt for survivors · warlord rule · faction conflict · anti-hero survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · nuclear wasteland · nuclear winter · poisoned world · ruined town · lawless world · collapsed society · Britain · England · Lowestoft

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Distance: 0.1295

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Zom-B City

Darren Shan · 2013 · Zom-B

A newly freed zombie girl roams a ruined London, navigating rival factions and her own changing nature.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · post-outbreak survival · city exploration · survivor among zombies · faction conflict · escape and wander

Setting labels: London · post-apocalyptic city · abandoned city · urban ruins · zombie-controlled city · underground facility · military base · post-outbreak world · ruined infrastructure · sunlight exposure

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Distance: 0.1309

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Everland

Wendy Spinale · 2016 · Everland

In bombed-out, virus-ravaged London, a teen girl teams with a hidden band of lost kids to rescue her kidnapped sister.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · virus outbreak · cure hunt · kidnapped sibling · immune protagonist · orphan survival · rescuer quest · bounty hunt · children vs authority · retold fairy tale

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic London · England · underground city · war zone · dystopian world · alternate reality · bombed city

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Distance: 0.1361

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Destroyer

Bobby Adair · 2013 · Slow Burn

A rage-fueled survivor pushes deeper into a collapsing world of infected, seeking rescue, revenge, and a fragile safe haven.

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Premise labels: virus outbreak · infected survivors · immune protagonist · small survivor group · rescue mission · revenge quest · safe haven search · siege survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · virus-ravaged world · hospital siege · safe house · bunker · woods

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Distance: 0.1462

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Reborn

Alex Scarrow · 2017 · Plague Land

Two years after a virus-driven collapse, survivors follow a rescue signal—while the infection evolves into something far stranger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: virus outbreak · evolving pathogen · survivor quest · rescue mission · end-of-world survival · infection threat · hidden infection · humanity vs virus · rescue broadcast · journey to safety

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · England · London · Norwich · Southampton · New York · Cuba · global collapse · harsh winter · survivor camps · safe haven

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Distance: 0.1464

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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: 0.1495

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The Fear

Charlie Higson · 2014 · The Enemy

Children crossing a ruined London face smarter infected adults, shifting alliances, and a dangerous search for lost friends.

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Premise labels: adult infection · child survival · city journey · lost friends · hostile world · survival mission · enemy threat · faction conflict · rebuilding society · search mission

Setting labels: London · contemporary London · post-apocalyptic city · urban wasteland · Buckingham Palace · Tower of London · Parliament · Natural History Museum · Thames · near future · very near future · collapsed civilization

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Distance: 0.1524

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Extinction War

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2017 · Extinction Cycle

On multiple war fronts, soldiers, scientists, and leaders race to stop evolving monsters, civil war, and extinction.

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Premise labels: survival war · civil war · bioweapon outbreak · monster outbreak · global collapse · human extinction · enemy territory · race for cure · resistance movement · last stand

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · global setting · Europe · United States · Paris · France · Rome · Chicago · safe zones · military stronghold · warzone

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Distance: 0.1549

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Mercury Striking

Rebecca Zanetti · 2016 · Scorpius Syndrome

In plague-ravaged Los Angeles, a hunted CDC scientist seeks the only leader dangerous enough to protect her and a cure.

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Premise labels: viral plague · survival romance · cure quest · hunted heroine · protective stronghold · leader and scientist · resource scarcity · mutated survivors · community survival · enemy territory

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles · dystopian world · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · abandoned city · compound setting · territory conflict · United States

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Enclave

Ann Aguirre · 2011 · Razorland

A teen huntress cast out of an underground enclave must survive the ruined surface while confronting monsters and forbidden truths.

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Premise labels: survival quest · underground society · post-apocalyptic survival · forced exile · monster threat · pairing partners

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic New York City · underground tunnels · subway system · topside surface world · ruined city · plague-ravaged world · dystopian enclave · dark enclosed spaces

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Distance: 0.1562

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Strung II: The Valley of Death

Per Jacobsen · 2022 · Udhængt

In a post-apocalyptic survivor community, a new discovery deepens mistrust as an unseen enemy and hidden loyalties close in.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · hidden enemy · survivor community · trust under pressure · family in crisis · unsolved threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · after the collapse · survivor settlements · rural refuge · communes · farm community

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Distance: 0.1584

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The Electric Kingdom

David Arnold · 2021

In a fly-ravaged near future, three survivors follow separate quests that may reveal how to save what remains.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · pandemic apocalypse · quest journey · portal quest · survivors in isolation · found family

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · rural New England · New England woods · small-town isolation · farmhouse setting · abandoned cinema · movie theatre setting · post-pandemic world · science-fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1587

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