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Premise labels used: clone protagonist, drug empire, teen ruler, power vacuum, saving the world, ethical dilemma, reform mission, humanity vs property

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic future, ecological collapse, drug cartel state, borderlands, ruined earth, contained enclave, alternate future, biotech society, isolated country, desert setting

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Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

Yi Shi Si Zhou · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a ruined human base to recover his stolen spore while hiding from a deadly judge.

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Premise labels: sentient protagonist · identity concealment · stolen heirloom · search quest · nonhuman protagonist · post-collapse survival · mutant world · human infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · human bases · wasteland · mutated ecosystem · militarized society · cosmic radiation aftermath · ecological collapse · fortified enclaves

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Distance: 0.1704

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Red Gambit

Luke R. Mitchell · 2017 · The Harvesters

A snarky mercenary and an energy-wielding arcanist team up in alien-ravaged Earth to recover what they’ve lost.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · alien invasion aftermath · stolen equipment · missing sibling · reluctant alliance · save the world · power struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · alien-occupied world · dystopian future · apocalyptic aftermath

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Distance: 0.1749

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Icons

Margaret Stohl · 2013 · Icons

In an alien-ruled future, four teens with strange emotional powers uncover why they survived The Day.

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Premise labels: alien takeover · special teens · survival mission · hidden powers · conspiracy · rebellion

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future world · countryside refuge · controlled city · military compound · alien-occupied world · silent cities · mega-cities

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Distance: 0.1783

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Shade's Children

Garth Nix · 1997 · Shade's Children

In a ruined future where children vanish at fourteen, escaped teens join a mysterious AI-led resistance.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · teen rebellion · harvested children · AI mentor · resistance against overlords · escape from captivity · fight for survival

Setting labels: futuristic city · urban wasteland · post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate Earth · dystopian future · near future · subterranean refuge

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Distance: 0.1785

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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · 2018 · LIFEL1K3

A scavenger girl with a hidden power and a robot-like outsider flee a broken future while unraveling her past.

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Premise labels: robot rebellion · android outlaw · human-like AI · mutant powers · on the run · identity mystery · found family · protective quest · corporate control · gladiator combat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · radioactive wasteland · desert wasteland · scrapyard setting · ruined megacities · island setting · future Earth · corporate dystopia · post-nuclear future · slum setting

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DEV1AT3

Jay Kristoff · 2019 · LIFEL1K3

Separated in a harsh future wasteland, Lemon Fresh and her friends fight cults, corporations, and each other’s secrets.

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Premise labels: survival quest · split party · hunted fugitive · powered teens · corporate war · religious cult · identity crisis · found family · revenge plot · search mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian wasteland · irradiated landscape · ruined cities · corporate-controlled future · religious enclave · robotic world · glassy desert · post-collapse society · USA (implied)

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Wakers

Orson Scott Card · 2022 · The Side Step Trilogy

A clone teen with the power to jump realities wakes alone on abandoned Earth and must solve why he was created.

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Premise labels: clone awakening · alternate realities · side-stepping · post-apocalypse · last survivor · survival quest · save humanity · mystery of origin · paired protagonists · odd powers

Setting labels: abandoned Earth · post-apocalyptic wasteland · cloning facility · empty town · parallel worlds · alternate timelines · future Earth · near-future

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Hero

Michael Grant · 2022 · Monster

A superpowered teen team faces a new deadly villain and a reality-shaking truth in the final Monster installment.

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Premise labels: superpowered teens · mutant powers · hero vs villain · save the world · morally gray conflict · alien virus

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · New York City · Las Vegas · return to prior setting · superhuman reality · simulation reality · alternate dimension · scientific-fantasy hybrid

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小蘑菇

一十四洲 · 2019

A nonhuman mushroom enters a human base to recover his lost spore in a brutal post-apocalyptic world.

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Premise labels: lost spore · body transformation · nonhuman protagonist · human infiltration · survival quest · mutated world · species boundary · search mission

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · mutated wildlife · military base · human enclave · wasteland · end-times · science-fictional world

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Rebels of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2018 · Children of Eden

In a controlled future Earth, a young rebel must choose between saving loved ones and ending a system that runs humanity.

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Premise labels: save the world · rescue mission · civil war · dystopian rebellion · environmental collapse · free will · self-determination · love triangle · sacrifice

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · wilderness commune · closed society · controlled community · AI-controlled world · ecological setting · broken Earth

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The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer · 2002 · Matteo Alacran

A cloned boy raised as property in a drug lord’s future borderland must confront what makes him human.

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Premise labels: clone identity · human cloning · organ donor · coming of age · human rights · dehumanization · escape

Setting labels: future · dystopian future · borderland · Mexico-influenced · drug empire · estate setting · desert setting · oppressive society

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Hulk: The End

Peter David · 2008 · The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect

Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.

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Premise labels: dystopian future · time travel · alternate timeline · last survivor · tyrant ruler · internal conflict · final battle · post-nuclear war

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust

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Distance: 0.1881

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