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Premise labels used: zombie apocalypse, survival community, safe zone collapse, found family, love under pressure, post-apocalyptic rebuilding

Themes labels used: survival, grief, resilience, hope, sacrifice, community, love, loss, humanity in crisis, moving forward, trust, preparedness

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Cover of All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming

All the Stars in the Sky

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2015 · Until the End of the World

On a deadly trek to Alaska, Cassie and her survivors face zombies, grief, and hard choices as the world falls apart.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival journey · safe zone search · post-collapse trek · found family · romantic survival

Themes labels: survival · grief · hope · loss · resilience · love after loss · human nature · loyalty · trust · healing · moving on · community · hopefulness · morality

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Distance: 0.0716

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Peripeteia

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2017 · The City

In a zombie-ravaged New York City, survivors fight for food, safety, and each other as danger closes in.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival group · resource scarcity · found family · search for loved ones · community building · city survival · safe haven

Themes labels: survival · family · love · hope · loss · grief · belonging · community · humanity · gratitude · injustice · resourcefulness · betrayal · fear · endurance

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How We End

L.M. Juniper · 2022 · How We Survive Series

Seven strangers try to survive a fast-moving zombie outbreak and the end of London while forging an unlikely family.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie outbreak · survival group · strangers to family · societal collapse · escape the city · infection outbreak · post-apocalyptic survival

Themes labels: survival · humanity · resilience · trauma · healing · identity · acceptance · loss · grief · addiction · community · hope · courage · mental health · social collapse · interdependence · moral choice

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Cover of Strung II: The Valley of Death by Per Jacobsen

Strung II: The Valley of Death

Per Jacobsen · 2022 · Udhængt

In a post-apocalyptic survivor community, a new discovery deepens mistrust as an unseen enemy and hidden loyalties close in.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · hidden enemy · survivor community · trust under pressure · family in crisis · unsolved threat

Themes labels: survival · trust · uncertainty · fear · cooperation · community · loyalty · family conflict · hope · loss · apocalypse · belonging · secrecy · humanity

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Grace Lost

M. Lauryl Lewis · 2012 · Grace

A zombie-plagued escape into the mountains turns personal when one survivor develops a dark telepathic link to the undead.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival journey · fleeing danger · found family · telepathic link · smart zombies · love amid disaster

Themes labels: survival · loss · trauma · love under pressure · trust · leadership · group dependency · human nature · grief · hope · loss of innocence · morality in crisis · apocalypse adaptation

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Cover of The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel

The Last Tribe

Brad Manuel · 2015

A teenage boy and scattered family members try to reunite after a deadly pandemic leaves only a few survivors.

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Premise labels: global pandemic · post-apocalyptic survival · family reunion · survivor community · search for family · rebuilding society

Themes labels: family · survival · humanity · hope · cooperation · community · kindness · resilience · loss · grief · optimism · rebuilding · civilization collapse · practical survival · human nature

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Prepared

Courtney Konstantin · 2017 · Sundown

A prepper-trained mother races through a zombie outbreak to get her children from Las Vegas to a Montana compound.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · prepper survival · family protection · city escape · safe haven · survivalist knowledge · outbreak response · post-collapse journey

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · parental love · family loyalty · humanity · trust · caution · protecting children · self reliance · adaptation · compassion · loss · hope

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Distance: 0.1090

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Cover of Pandemonium by Susanna Strom

Pandemonium

Susanna Strom · 2020 · World Fallen

A college student shelters with a prepper cousin as a deadly flu collapses society, and sparks with a biker neighbor grow fast.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · collapse of society · survival romance · compound shelter · prepper refuge · forbidden attraction · bad boy romance · biker romance · found family

Themes labels: survival · trust · loss · grief · family loyalty · community · adaptation · fear · hope · preparedness · control · human connection · resilience · dependency · civility breakdown

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Cover of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Muriel Leung · 2024

In a post-apocalyptic New York, a heartbroken woman, her family, and their ghosts search for love, contact, and meaning.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · climate disaster · love amid collapse · grief after breakup · found family · haunted apartment building · radio contact · afterlife questions · community under crisis

Themes labels: grief · love · loss · survival · community · loneliness · hope · memory · afterlife · climate disaster · end of the world · trauma · mourning · queer love · family obligation · acceptance · human connection · resilience · fear of abandonment · living with uncertainty

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Cover of We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season

K.C. Wayland · 2011 · We're Alive

A full-cast zombie apocalypse audio drama follows survivors fortifying a safe haven while human danger grows.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival · survivor group · safe haven · fortification · resource scarcity · human threat · post-collapse order

Themes labels: survival · humanity · morality · trust · leadership · community · resource scarcity · trauma · loss · hope · betrayal · civilization breakdown · malevolence of humans

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Distance: 0.1125

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Cover of Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca

Pandemic

Yvonne Ventresca · 2014

A traumatized teen stockpiles for disaster, then must survive a deadly flu outbreak while her town falls apart.

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Premise labels: deadly outbreak · viral apocalypse · teen survival · isolation · preparedness · trauma recovery · forced self-reliance · community collapse

Themes labels: survival · resilience · trust · loss · hope · preparedness · fear · trauma · self-preservation · selflessness · friendship · courage · coming of age · community · crisis response

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1131

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Cover of The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Robert Kirkman · 2013 · The Walking Dead

A coma-awakened cop must navigate a zombie-ravaged world and find his family as society collapses.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival · family search · group survival · post-collapse society · return to family · walkers · apocalyptic outbreak

Themes labels: survival · humanity · moral choice · social breakdown · adaptation · grief · loss · responsibility · gender roles · leadership · social commentary · realism · fear · hope · human nature · change · civilization collapse

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1134

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