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Premise labels used: parasite takeover, apocalypse, body takeover, quarantine, medical conspiracy, scientific crisis, human-host conflict, identity crisis

Setting labels used: San Francisco, post-apocalyptic city, quarantine zones, lab setting, mall setting, boat setting, abandoned buildings, near future

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Chimera

Mira Grant · 2015 · Parasitology

In a collapsing near-future, a human-parasite hybrid fights quarantine, factions, and identity to bring her family home.

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Premise labels: outbreak · body parasites · sentient parasite · medical experiment · humanity at risk · identity conflict · species conflict · compromise between sides · survival struggle · found family

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · near future · medical-tech future · outbreak setting · quarantine · military compound · safe zone · city collapse · society in collapse · bioengineered reality

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Distance: 0.1585

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Marked Omega

Lizzy Bequin · 2020 · Quarantine Omega

A scientist trapped in a quarantine zone is transformed and claimed by three alphas in a dangerous, steamy new world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: quarantine zone · bait and capture · scientific experiment · forced transformation · mate claim · alpha omega dynamics · virus mutation · corporate conspiracy · rescue mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · quarantine zone · walled city · hive city · contaminated forest · alternate Earth · dystopian future · mutated society · isolated colony

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Distance: 0.1776

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Child Zero

Chris Holm · 2022

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

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Distance: 0.1777

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The Scarlet Plague

Jack London · 1986

An elderly survivor recounts a deadly plague and the collapse of civilization to his feral grandchildren.

Why this is here

Premise labels: pandemic collapse · post-apocalyptic survival · civilizational collapse · survivor testimony · knowledge loss · primitive regression · end of civilization

Setting labels: San Francisco · Bay Area · near-future · future past · post-plague world · ruined urban landscape · tribal society · post-collapse wilderness

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Distance: 0.1836

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The Tiger Flu

Larissa Lai · 2018

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

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Distance: 0.1882

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The Ark

Lou Vane · 2022

Captured by a brutal new community, Jess and her friends must survive, keep secrets, and find a way to escape.

Why this is here

Premise labels: captivity · forced community · escape plan · survival · virus aftermath · secret identity · enemy territory · immunity

Setting labels: post apocalyptic · apocalyptic future · compound setting · bunker setting · walled community · survival camp · lab setting

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Distance: 0.1936

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Emergency Broadcast

Boris Bacic · 2023 · Infected City

A city outbreak traps multiple people inside a fast-moving infected apocalypse, forcing survival, rescue, and impossible choices.

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Premise labels: outbreak survival · quarantine zone · city overrun · infected threat · emergency alert · escape or wait · find rescue · find checkpoint · protect family · secret mission

Setting labels: city · quarantine zone · post apocalyptic city · during outbreak · lab · homebound lockdown · checkpoints · dead city

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Distance: 0.2001

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Orleans

Sherri L. Smith · 2013

A fierce teen in a quarantined, blood-typed Orleans fights to save a newborn while an outsider scientist seeks a cure.

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Premise labels: quarantined city · blood type society · viral outbreak · survival quest · protect the baby · scientist outsider · cross-border mission · resource scarcity · primitive society · post-disaster rebuilding

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic city · quarantined zone · walled-off city · flooded landscape · swamp setting · storm-damaged coast · near future · dystopian future · tribal society · New Orleans setting · Gulf Coast setting

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Distance: 0.2019

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No Easy Way Out

Dayna Lorentz · 2013 · No Safety in Numbers

A quarantined mall descends deeper into chaos as teens, leaders, and rivals struggle for survival, control, and trust.

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Premise labels: quarantine · biological threat · survival under lockdown · teen rebellion · trust and betrayal · scarcity · power struggle · collapse of order

Setting labels: quarantined mall · shopping mall · confined setting · post-riot setting · dystopian setting · pandemic setting · infirmary · home stores

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Distance: 0.2020

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Junk

Les Bohem · 2019

A disgraced ex-cop is pulled into a conspiracy of alien DNA, secret elites, and a world-changing takeover.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien takeover · hidden DNA · genetic mutation · secret conspiracy · epidemic outbreak · end times · resistance movement

Setting labels: present-day Los Angeles · modern day · apocalyptic aftermath · contemporary Earth

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Distance: 0.2052

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

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: 0.2054

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The Breakers Series #1-3

Edward W. Robertson · 2013 · Breakers

A pandemic-ravaged Earth faces a second threat from alien invaders as survivors fight, adapt, and resist.

Why this is here

Premise labels: double apocalypse · pandemic survival · alien invasion · human survival · post-collapse resistance · ordinary people · multiple storylines · survivor groups

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · ruined America · New York · Los Angeles · upstate Idaho · Redding, California · Catalina Island · dystopian future · worldwide collapse · survivalist wilderness · ruins of cities

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Distance: 0.2080

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