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James Tynion IV

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Premise labels used: transported school, alien world, survival game, group stranded, mystery setup, power struggle, faction formation, monster threat, school-in-peril, unknown reason

Setting labels used: high school, alien planet, moon, otherworldly wilderness, primordial wilderness, suburban Milwaukee, school building, forest, off-world, apocalyptic isolation

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The Woods, Vol. 4: Movie Night

James Tynion IV · 2016 · The Woods

A stranded high-school colony must navigate a time jump, political rivalry, and new threats on an alien world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: transported school · lost students · survival colony · new world society · leadership contest · rival factions · resource scarcity · post-apocalyptic community

Setting labels: suburban high school · alien world · ancient wilderness · suburban Milwaukee · post-displacement colony · school-turned-settlement · new planet · primordial wilderness

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Distance: 0.1090

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The Woods, Vol. 2: The Swarm

James Tynion IV · 2015 · The Woods

Stranded teens and staff keep surviving an alien wilderness while flashbacks reveal who they were before the disappearance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: stranded students · alien world · survival ordeal · school disappearance · mystery setup · survival group · teen cast · backstory reveal

Setting labels: alien moon · ancient wilderness · high school · suburban Milwaukee · unchartered world · otherworldly forest · primordial wilderness · school play setting · alternate dimension

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Distance: 0.1206

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezu · 2006 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school vanishes into a barren wasteland, forcing children and teachers to survive as order collapses.

Why this is here

Premise labels: school disappearance · transported school · survival ordeal · alien wasteland · lost children · adult breakdown · resource scarcity · mystery premise

Setting labels: elementary school · wasteland · desert landscape · alien world · nightmarish reality · mysterious realm · isolated school

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1626

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Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · boarding school · friendship · war setting · school conspiracy · hidden agenda · identity concealment · forced isolation

Setting labels: future world · dystopian future · war-torn society · boarding school · isolated school · wilderness setting · schoolcamp

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1886

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezz, Kazuo Umezu · 2019 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school is hurled into a hostile future wasteland, and the students must survive chaos, monsters, and collapse.

Why this is here

Premise labels: school vanishes · survival horror · stranded class · hostile world · isolated group · children in peril · post-apocalyptic survival · forced leadership

Setting labels: Japanese elementary school · desert wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · far future · hostile world · unknown place · earth in ruins · time-slip setting

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Distance: 0.1936

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Tunnel in the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein · 2005

A survival exam on a remote planet goes wrong, stranding students who must build order, shelter, and leadership from scratch.

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Premise labels: survival test · stranded students · alien planet · frontier colonization · group survival · civilization building · unknown world · transport gate

Setting labels: future Earth · alien planet · interplanetary travel · frontier world · unknown future · colonization era · isolated wilderness · post-overpopulation future

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Distance: 0.1948

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Monsters

Ilsa J. Bick · 2013 · Ashes Trilogy

In a brutal post-apocalyptic winter, Alex and her scattered allies fight evolving monsters, betrayal, and each other.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · zombie outbreak · evolving monsters · teen survival group · brain anomaly · mysterious apocalypse · betrayal and terror

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · winter survival · wilderness · small-town enclave · dystopian America · apocalyptic America · isolated community · post-EMP world

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Distance: 0.2005

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Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.2016

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Displaced

Stephen Drake · Displaced

Stranded survivors on an alien world must outlast hunger, winter, and a power-hungry leader while one man tries to survive alone.

Why this is here

Premise labels: stranded survivors · alien planet · survival challenge · power struggle · castaway colony · one-way transport · unknown world

Setting labels: alien planet · distant world · Earth-like planet · primitive frontier · hostile environment · winter survival · suspended animation · post-invasion Earth

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Distance: 0.2106

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Feedback

Robison Wells · 2012 · Variant

A teen fugitive finds a supposedly safe town is just another layer of the same deadly experiment.

Why this is here

Premise labels: escape attempt · surveillance state · captivity · twisted experiment · hidden control · school conspiracy · robot doubles · impostor town · truth-seeking · survival game

Setting labels: isolated school · small town · woods · confined setting · experimental facility · controlled community · near-future dystopia · fictional reality · camp

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Distance: 0.2136

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Seckry Sevenstars and the City of the Falling Sky

Joseph Evans · 2011 · Seckry Sequence

A relocated teen in a futuristic city stumbles into a corporate secret, a missing girl, and a mystery that upends his life.

Why this is here

Premise labels: forced relocation · megacorp conflict · teen rebellion · mystery quest · hidden experiments · amnesiac girl · revenge mission · video game world · school setting · secret identity

Setting labels: futuristic city · dystopian city · rural-to-urban relocation · near future · school setting · virtual reality · science-fantasy world · underworld/sewers

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Distance: 0.2168

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Alight

Scott Sigler · 2016 · The Generations Trilogy

A memory-wiped teen leader and her group land on an alien world, only to face survival, betrayal, and war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival quest · memory loss · leadership struggle · alien world · fight or die · colonization conflict · coming-of-age under pressure · resource scarcity

Setting labels: alien planet · spacecraft · ruined city · jungle · tunnels · post-apocalyptic world · isolated colony · far-future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2177

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