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Premise labels used: global pandemic, flu pandemic, family survival, prepper protagonist, quarantine, societal collapse, resource scarcity, home defense, neighbor conflict, civilizational breakdown, disaster preparedness

Themes labels used: survival, preparedness, morality, civility, self-preservation, family first, social collapse, fear, panic, resource scarcity, trust, responsibility, quarantine, community ethics, violence, resilience, paranoia, neighborhood dynamics

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Frontier Justice

Arthur T. Bradley · 2013 · The Survivalist

After a man-made supervirus collapses society, a U.S. marshal fights to protect a survivor town from violent chaos.

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Premise labels: pandemic survival · viral outbreak · collapse of society · lawman protagonist · town defense · survivalist skills · good vs evil · frontier justice · post-collapse law enforcement · apocalyptic scavenging

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · social collapse · civil order · law and justice · moral choice · community defense · human nature · good versus evil · trust and suspicion · self-reliance · violence · pandemic fear · practical knowledge · resilience

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Home

Tom Abrahams · 2015 · The Traveler

A fortified prepper in plague-ravaged Texas breaks isolation to help a desperate woman, drawing danger to his door.

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Premise labels: pandemic survival · isolated homestead · prepper protagonist · family loss · rescue dilemma · fortified property · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · loss · redemption · home · self-reliance · moral choice · family · faith · compassion vs isolation · human cruelty · collapse of society · revenge · protection

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The China Pandemic

A.R. Shaw · 2013 · Graham's Resolution

After a deadly pandemic, an immune survivor leads a fragile group toward safety while preppers, danger, and loss close in.

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Premise labels: pandemic survival · global collapse · immune survivors · carrier status · prepper communities · found family · protect the child · journey to cabin · small-group survival

Themes labels: survival · human resilience · community · compassion · hope · grief · responsibility · loss · civilizational collapse · moral choices · cooperation · family

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The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2017

A pregnant nurse infected by a combustible plague fights to survive a collapsing world with help from a mysterious Fireman.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · spontaneous combustion · infected survivors · plague survival · post-collapse community · protective outsider · pregnant protagonist · mysterious guardian · contagious disease

Themes labels: survival · fear and panic · human nature · kindness · control · faith · community · forgiveness · parenthood · moral collapse · social breakdown · identity · caregiving · trust · prejudice

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The Borrowed World

Franklin Horton · 2015 · The Borrowed World

A prepared man stranded far from home must cross a collapsing America while his family fights to hold their homestead.

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Premise labels: grid down · societal collapse · get home journey · stranded traveler · family survival · prepper survival · infrastructure attack · home front survival · resource scarcity · post-disaster survival

Themes labels: preparedness · survival ethics · social collapse · self-reliance · family loyalty · government distrust · civilization fragility · violence and survival · moral compromise · resource hoarding · fear versus preparation · paranoia versus prudence · human depravity · home as refuge

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Pandemonium

Susanna Strom · 2020 · World Fallen

A college student shelters with a prepper cousin as a deadly flu collapses society, and sparks with a biker neighbor grow fast.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · collapse of society · survival romance · compound shelter · prepper refuge · forbidden attraction · bad boy romance · biker romance · found family

Themes labels: survival · trust · loss · grief · family loyalty · community · adaptation · fear · hope · preparedness · control · human connection · resilience · dependency · civility breakdown

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Event Horizon

Steven Konkoly · 2014 · Alex Fletcher

In a collapsing post-disaster America, one family fights through militia violence to reunite and survive.

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Premise labels: survival · family rescue · safe house · militia conflict · societal collapse · fleeing city · home defense · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: family first · survival ethics · preparedness · trust and betrayal · authority breakdown · violence and consequence · community defense · moral compromise · resource scarcity · civil disorder · power grab · responsibility

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Reap What You Sow

S.M. Anderson · 2020 · Seasons of Man

After a world-ending virus, rival survivor factions clash while former soldiers and civilians try to build order.

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Premise labels: post-pandemic survival · collapsed society · new settlements · survivor factions · power struggle · rebuilding civilization · virus aftermath · lawless world

Themes labels: survival ethics · rebuilding society · freedom · law and order · anti-extremism · collective action · power abuse · human nature · civilizational collapse · morality under pressure · ideological conflict · hope · responsibility

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CyberStorm

Matthew Mather · 2013 · CyberStorm

A cyberattack and blizzard trap a New York father, forcing his family and neighbors to survive a collapsing city.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · grid collapse · infrastructure failure · survival under siege · city blackout · resource scarcity · family survival · communication blackout · information blackout · civil breakdown · catastrophe chain · technology dependence · preparedness

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · technology dependence · infrastructure vulnerability · social collapse · human nature · panic · resource scarcity · family loyalty · community solidarity · fear and paranoia · privacy and security · civil liberties · misinformation · blame and scapegoating · resilience · morality under pressure · civilization fragility

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The Last Tribe

Brad Manuel · 2015

A teenage boy and scattered family members try to reunite after a deadly pandemic leaves only a few survivors.

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Premise labels: global pandemic · post-apocalyptic survival · family reunion · survivor community · search for family · rebuilding society

Themes labels: family · survival · humanity · hope · cooperation · community · kindness · resilience · loss · grief · optimism · rebuilding · civilization collapse · practical survival · human nature

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Plague Land

Alex Scarrow · 2017 · Plague Land

A teen and his family flee a fast-moving plague that melts living things—and seems to think for itself.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · deadly contagion · survival journey · family survival · immune survivors · intelligent pathogen · extinction event · world-ending plague

Themes labels: survival · family bonds · fear and panic · adaptation · human resilience · social breakdown · paranoia · infection and contagion · loss · trust and mistrust · identity · morality under pressure · end of the world

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Under a Graveyard Sky

John Ringo · 2013 · Black Tide Rising

A prepared family escapes an airborne zombie outbreak by sea, then works to rescue survivors and build refuge.

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Premise labels: zombie plague · airborne outbreak · family survival · sea escape · survivor rescue · rebuilding society · search and rescue · vaccine race

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · leadership · community building · human resilience · civilizational collapse · rebuilding · duty · resource management · trust and paranoia · morality under pressure · hope · willingness to fight

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