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These books are ranked using the motifs labels extracted for Going Dark.
Motifs labels used: darkness, going dark, airlock, cables, water contamination, cancer, diminishing population, communications cutoff, sealed doors, technical systems
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their motifs embeddings are close.
Trapped in a darkened mall after a deadly outbreak, a group of teens must survive chaos and find a way out.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · light outage · food scarcity · quarantine · windows · epilogue · news reports · texts · notebook · malls
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1480
A Europe-wide power-grid collapse traps a former hacker in the crosshairs as he races to stop a widening catastrophe.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · lights out · winter cold · food shortages · water shortages · heat loss · communication failure · traffic lights · smart meters · generators · blackout imagery · power grid · nuclear reactor overheating
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1592
Two children in a failing underground city decode a mystery that may be their only route to freedom.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: light · darkness · lamps · sunrise · paper message · note · boats · pipes · underground tunnels · water · blackouts · food hoarding
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1717
When a sudden blackout cuts off everything, a professor and her pilot husband struggle separately to survive and reunite.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · silence · light · power grid · electricity · walk home · wall · school reading · communication loss · food supply · technology · literary discussion
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1758
A solar storm knocks out the world’s power, forcing estranged siblings to survive chaos in radically different ways.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: electricity · blackout · bunker · food storage · gardening · water scarcity · radio · cash · checkpoints · loose ends
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1761
After an EMP cripples New York on New Year’s Eve, four strangers must band together to survive and escape the city.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · silence · power outage · dog · bunker · electronics failure · city lights · new year · bug out · communication loss
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1800
A sudden global blackout forces one suburban family to survive, trust each other, and face a killer nearby.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: blackout · electricity · water shortage · food storage · generators · cell phones · vehicles · darkness · prayer · Bible verses · guns · bicycles · airplane crashes
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1802
When an EMP-like catastrophe cuts power and communication, a mother, daughter, and friends fight to stay together.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: electricity loss · food storage · water supplies · looting · guns · cars · traffic gridlock · campus · library · plants · sun · darkness · space weather · shopping supplies
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1818
After solar flares plunge half the world into darkness, survivors race a serial killer, rising chaos, and each other.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · light · twists · loose ends · power outage · solar flares · weapons · guns · crossbow · fire · fog · empty shelves · medication shortages · survival gear · cliffhanger
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1821
After a global blackout, a teen and his fortified neighborhood face a deadly enemy while trying to survive and rebuild.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: darkness · electricity · lights flickering · blackout · fortress · food storage · weapons cache · airplane · letter · winter · safe haven · falling civilization
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1830
In future Paris, a total power collapse throws society into chaos and forces one survivor to lead others through the ruins.
Why this is here
Motifs labels: electricity · darkness · fire · cinders · machines · books · autodafe · food scarcity · dead bodies · ruins · labor · agriculture · polygamy · technology · nature
Semantic match: ranked by motifs
Distance: 0.1832
