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Setting labels used: psychiatric hospital, mental institution, post-apocalyptic world, zombie-infested world, urban survival, research lab, government research, collapsed society, contemporary earth, apocalypse onset
Focused on “dystopian future” where exact label matches exist.
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A prequel tracing Thomas and the others inside WICKED, where a maze is built and loyalties begin to shift.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalyptic world · dystopian future · research facility · compound · maze trials · lab environment · child detention · virus outbreak · global collapse · WICKED headquarters · before the maze
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1502
A near-future trilogy of biotech collapse, plague, and survival told through intertwined timelines and perspectives.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · corporate compounds · pleeblands · biotech society · environmental collapse · plague aftermath · scientific dystopia · recognizable world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1624
A medicated former zombie reunites with her ex-best friend in a fragile island refuge as love, fear, and danger collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · island community · surviving communities · experimental facility · resettlement site · near-future · collapsed society · post-virus world · semi-rebuilt society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1327
Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse
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Distance: 0.1329
In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-oil world · climate-changed world · pandemic world · dystopian future · ruined city · quarantine rings · isolated commune · post-Canada
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Distance: 0.1674
A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · earth after disaster · collapse of civilization · desert landscape · quarantine · bunkers · ruins · American setting · global catastrophe
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Distance: 0.1708
In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · medical-tech future · outbreak setting · quarantine · military compound · safe zone · city collapse · society in collapse · bioengineered reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1429
A sentient mushroom infiltrates a human base to recover his spore, only to face a wary judge and an unraveling apocalypse.
Why this is here
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: 0.1748
Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality
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Distance: 0.1448
A 22-story horror collection of bleak, weird futures where bodies, identities, and ecosystems unravel.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-Anthropocene · dystopian future · climate apocalypse · ruined Earth · poisonous air · uninhabitable environment · alien world · speculative reality · ghostly reality · liminal spaces
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Distance: 0.1766
In a collapsing world, a mother and daughter move toward opposite answers to survival, power, and how the world ends.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post apocalypse · cataclysmic earth · geological disaster · planetary collapse · survival society · ash world · far future · dystopian future · secondary world
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Distance: 0.1779
In a virus-ravaged world split by walls, a young survivor and a mute boy become bound by love and dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1507
