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Premise labels used: post-apocalyptic survival, final mission, answers quest, world-ending aftermath, save the world, genetic experiment survivors

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, Earth, dystopian future, global disaster zone, lab-created fictional reality

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The Red Queen

Isobelle Carmody · 2015 · The Obernewtyn Chronicles

A long-awaited finale sends Elspeth into the Red Land to stop catastrophe and decide what freedom will cost.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · world-saving mission · final confrontation · hidden community · captivity escape · stop catastrophic weapon · seeker heroine · loyalty to world

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · imaginary places · lost community · red land · habitat · beforetime future · dystopian landscape · walled community

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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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Sweet Tooth, Vol. 6: Wild Game

Jeff Lemire · 2013 · Sweet Tooth

In a ruined world of human-animal hybrids and plague fallout, Gus reaches Alaska for answers as danger closes in.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · plague mystery · hybrid humans · end-of-world aftermath · final showdown · family bond · origin revelation · survival struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Alaska · dystopian future · collapsed civilization · science-fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1374

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Empty Earth

Jacqueline Druga · 2022

A suicidal woman wakes to an empty world and must uncover what happened, why she survived, and what it means.

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Premise labels: end-of-world · sole survivor · mystery survival · answers-seeking · wake to a dead world · apocalypse aftermath

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · empty world · silent city · earthbound catastrophe

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Distance: 0.1388

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The Gypsy Morph

Terry Brooks · 2008 · Genesis of Shannara

In a ruined future Earth, survivors, elves, and magic-bearers race against demons to reach safety before the world ends.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · end times · chosen ones · quest · escorting survivors · bridge series · race against extinction · journey to safety · world transition

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · collapsed civilization · fortified compounds · toxic wasteland · mutated world · Earth-to-fantasy transition · fantasy realm · alternate history · future America · imaginary place

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Electro

Javier Ruescas, Manu Carbajo · 2015 · Saga Electro

A teen wakes to a ruined future world, then follows a mystery diary and a fugitive companion to uncover what happened.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · lost world · mystery diary · memory gap · future shock · journey for answers · experimental humans · energy-dependent body · guided quest

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · future Earth · single day time jump · ruined city · small-town setting · North America · war aftermath · technological future

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BLAME! Vol. 1

Tsutomu Nihei · 2016 · BLAME!

A silent wanderer crosses a vast vertical megastructure searching for a gene that may restore humanity’s link to the Net.

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Premise labels: search quest · missing gene · vertical megacity · survival journey · post-human world · lost humanity · mission-driven protagonist

Setting labels: future Earth · vertical city · megacity · megastructure · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · industrial wasteland · post-human setting · cybernetic world

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Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

In a biotech-ravaged multiverse, three uncanny travelers battle a corporation across collapsing realities.

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Premise labels: corporate biotech · post-apocalyptic survival · alternate realities · multiverse mission · end-of-world struggle · nonhuman protagonists · environmental collapse · biotech apocalypse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ravaged world · dystopian city · multiverse · alternate timelines · biotech-altered world · ruined Earth · posthuman setting

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Cover of The End Has Come by John Joseph Adams

John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Megan Arkenberg, Chris Avellone, Elizabeth Bear, Annie Bellet, Tananarive Due, Jamie Ford, Mira Grant, Hugh Howey, Jake Kerr, Nancy Kress, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Will McIntosh, Leife Shallcross, Scott Sigler, Carrie Vaughn, Robin Wasserman, David Wellington, Ben H. Winters · 2015 · The Apocalypse Triptych

A linked anthology of post-apocalyptic short stories about survivors, rebuilders, and unfinished arcs after the end.

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Premise labels: post-apocalypse · rebuilding · survival · aftermath · multiple apocalypses · linked stories · shared universe · anthology series

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian future · rebuilding society · alternate future · shared-universe fiction · multiple disaster scenarios

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Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

John Joseph Adams, Ann Aguirre, Megan Arkenberg, Paolo Bacigalupi, Christopher Barzak, Lauren Beukes, David Brin, Orson Scott Card, Junot Díaz, Cory Doctorow, Tananarive Due, Toiya Kristen Finley, Milo James Fowler, Maria Dahvana Headley, Hugh Howey, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Jake Kerr, Nancy Kress, Joe R. Lansdale, George R.R. Martin, Jack McDevitt, Seanan McGuire, Maureen F. McHugh, D. Thomas Minton, Rudy Rucker, Ramsey Shehadeh, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, Rachel Swirsky, Genevieve Valentine, James Van Pelt, Christie Yant · 2015 · Wastelands

A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.

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Premise labels: end of the world · apocalypse survival · post-collapse world · civilization collapse · survival after disaster · multiple apocalypse scenarios · aftermath stories · end-times fiction

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · earth after disaster · collapse of civilization · desert landscape · quarantine · bunkers · ruins · American setting · global catastrophe