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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Blackout. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.
Premise labels used: virus outbreak, government conspiracy, truth-seeking journalists, post-pandemic society, rescue mission, mutating pathogen, cloning subplot, survival under collapse
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic America, near future, fortified safe zones, zombie-infested world, future United States, government facilities, newsroom culture
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
In a post-zombie future, two bloggers cover a presidential campaign and uncover a deadly conspiracy.
Why this is here
Premise labels: zombie outbreak · bloggers · political campaign · media shift · conspiracy · truth seeking
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · near future · presidential campaign · United States · fortified communities · zombie world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1447
As a viral apocalypse unfolds across timelines, survivors race to stop the originals and protect what remains of humanity.
Why this is here
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1572
In a near-future New York ravaged by antibiotic resistance, a detective hunts a mystery tied to a boy everyone wants.
Why this is here
Premise labels: antibiotic resistance · bioterrorism · pandemic collapse · medical crisis · missing child · quarantine zone · manhunt · government overreach · scientific plausibility · public health crisis
Setting labels: near future · dystopian New York City · Central Park quarantine zone · post-pandemic world · surveillance state · urban collapse · futuristic cityscape
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1581
In a devastated future, two women from opposing communities race to save their people amid plague, biotech, and power struggles.
Why this is here
Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · genetic engineering · parthenogenetic society · clone community · body regeneration · organ harvesting · mind-body separation · corporate power · technocratic control
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1591
After a world-ending virus, rival survivor factions clash while former soldiers and civilians try to build order.
Why this is here
Premise labels: post-pandemic survival · collapsed society · new settlements · survivor factions · power struggle · rebuilding civilization · virus aftermath · lawless world
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · post-pandemic world · collapsed civilization · dead world · no rules · United States · Virginia · Tysons Corner · Antarctica · Cuba · underground facility · submarine setting · military bunker
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1593
A viral apocalypse leaves 3% alive, forcing a hardened survivor and other stragglers to fight for humanity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: viral apocalypse · pandemic collapse · survival struggle · found family · post-collapse conflict · human predators
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · global pandemic aftermath · collapsed civilization · hospitality/safe-haven facade · military/urban survival
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1607
A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.
Why this is here
Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · disability technology · mind-body split · robot bodies · virtual society · murder investigation · federal investigation · identity crisis · post-plague society
Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1614
A teen chosen for an underground virus refuge finds love, then discovers the surface is still deadly.
Why this is here
Premise labels: virus outbreak · government lottery · underground shelter · selected survivors · survival romance · post-virus mutation
Setting labels: underground habitats · post-apocalyptic world · virus pandemic · government compound · survival bunker · topside outbreak · small-group confinement
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1616
A deadly flu wipes out most of America, forcing a handful of survivors toward opposing visions of the future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic collapse · post-apocalyptic survival · immunized survivors · good versus evil · vision quest
Setting labels: United States · global pandemic · secret military laboratory · post-apocalyptic world · urban and rural America
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1617
An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.
Why this is here
Premise labels: viral outbreak · global pandemic · medical crisis · post-pandemic society · disabled future · technology response · public policy · civil rights · social change · worldbuilding prelude
Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1636
A superflu wipes out most of humanity, and the survivors are pulled into a struggle between opposing forces of good and evil.
Why this is here
Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · post-apocalyptic survival · good vs evil · survivor community · supernatural conflict
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · biological disaster · desert communities · Boulder community · Las Vegas community · lab-origin catastrophe
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1646
A father protects his infant son through a zombie outbreak while survivors try to build a new community.
Why this is here
Premise labels: virus outbreak · reanimated dead · survival quest · protect family · rebuild society · leader emergence · community survival · end times
Setting labels: zombie apocalypse · post collapse world · suburban America · city to suburb migration · survivor communities · school refuge · gas station stop · home defense · civilization collapse
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1658
