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Jeremy Bishop, Jeremy Robinson

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Premise labels used: nuclear war, end times, survival, escape pod, post-apocalyptic world, hell on earth, zombie outbreak, afterlife test, faith trial, survivor group

Setting labels used: White House, Earth orbit, post-nuclear Earth, apocalyptic future, hellscape, contemporary America, Russia-US war, underworld-like reality, post-apocalyptic America

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin · 2012 · The Passage

As a viral apocalypse unfolds across timelines, survivors race to stop the originals and protect what remains of humanity.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · end times · survival quest · vampire apocalypse · human experimentation · hunt the originals · post-collapse struggle · save humanity · immortality pursuit · power struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · present day · near future · far future · year zero · apocalypse aftermath · collapsed society · human survival camp · militarized society

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Farnham's Freehold

Robert A. Heinlein · 2006 · O Mundo que Nos Espera

A survival-minded family rides out nuclear war in a bunker, then discovers a radically altered future society.

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Premise labels: nuclear war · fallout shelter · time displacement · survivalist family · future slave society · racial inversion · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: Cold War · future world · post-apocalyptic world · alternate future · nuclear war era · American family home · wilderness survival

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Distance: 0.1643

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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: 0.1647

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The Gypsy Morph

Terry Brooks · 2008 · Genesis of Shannara

In a ruined future Earth, survivors, elves, and magic-bearers race against demons to reach safety before the world ends.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · end times · chosen ones · quest · escorting survivors · bridge series · race against extinction · journey to safety · world transition

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · collapsed civilization · fortified compounds · toxic wasteland · mutated world · Earth-to-fantasy transition · fantasy realm · alternate history · future America · imaginary place

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Distance: 0.1672

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 2012 · Pure

In a nuclear-ravaged world split between Dome-dwellers and mutated survivors, two teens risk everything to find truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear aftermath · split society · survival quest · escape from dome · lost mother search · apocalyptic mutation · controlled enclave · outside world survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear holocaust aftermath · domed enclave · wasteland · ash-covered world · controlled society · ruined Earth · climate-controlled dome

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Distance: 0.1728

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Revelations

Paul Antony Jones · 2014 · Extinction Point

A survivor faces the truth behind Earth’s alien makeover as a post-apocalyptic journey reaches its final reveal.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · terraforming · human survival · post-collapse survival · end of the world · mysterious catastrophe · last survivors · alien takeover

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · alien-terraforming · red vegetation · alien world · North America · Alaska · California · Las Vegas · Point Loma · submarine · military base · space station · frozen world

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Emergence

David R. Palmer · 1984 · The Emergence Chronicles

An 11-year-old girl survives a bio-nuclear apocalypse, then seeks others like her in a depopulated world.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · child genius · last survivor · next evolution · search for survivors · biological catastrophe · new species

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · depopulated America · fallout shelter · near-future · Cold War era · worldwide catastrophe · isolated survival setting

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Distance: 0.1781

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Extinction Shadow

Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri · 2019 · Extinction Cycle: Dark Age

Eight years after civilization’s collapse, survivors face an evolved mutant threat that could restart extinction.

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Premise labels: post apocalypse · virus outbreak · mutant threat · human survival · rebuilding civilization · hidden enemy · evolved monsters · outpost defense · renewed conflict · survival war

Setting labels: post apocalyptic America · Allied States of America · outposts · collapsed cities · frontier · near future · rebuilding society · military zones

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Distance: 0.1786

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The Survivors

Angela White · 2010 · Life After War

In a nuclear-ravaged America, survivors travel, regroup, and fight to build safety amid danger, secrets, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · nuclear war aftermath · wasteland journey · refugee camp · family reunion · community building · government conspiracy · supernatural powers · survival quest · lawless roads

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · nuclear winter · lawless roads · refugee camp · decaying cities · wasteland · our world · wartime aftermath · survival camp

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The Defenders

Philip K. Dick

After nuclear war forces humanity underground, a crew investigates the robots fighting on the surface and discovers a disturbing truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear war · underground bunker · robot proxy war · radiation survival · truth hidden from humanity · post-apocalyptic world

Setting labels: Cold War · post-nuclear future · underground society · radioactive wasteland · surface war zone · alternate future

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Darkest Night

Kyla Stone · 2019 · Nuclear Dawn

In the aftermath of nuclear attacks, Dakota and Logan race to save Eden and stop a cult’s final strike.

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Premise labels: nuclear fallout · cult threat · rescue mission · family survival · anti-terrorism · rebuilding after disaster · end-of-world stakes · battle for loved ones

Setting labels: post-nuclear America · Miami · Everglades · compound · safe house · religious compound · apocalyptic landscape · modern infrastructure collapse · US soil

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East of West, Vol. 9

Jonathan Hickman · 2019 · East of West

A penultimate comics volume drives a fractured, mythic world toward apocalypse as rival powers close in on final war.

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Premise labels: end times · apocalypse · final war · power struggle · faction conflict · family conflict · chosen ones · world-ending stakes

Setting labels: near-apocalypse · dying world · alternate reality · United States · political nations · western frontier · dystopian future · mythic apocalypse

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Distance: 0.1813

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