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Premise labels used: viral plague, survival romance, cure quest, hunted heroine, protective stronghold, leader and scientist, resource scarcity, mutated survivors, community survival, enemy territory

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, dystopian world, pandemic aftermath, collapsed infrastructure, abandoned city, compound setting, territory conflict, United States

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After the Ending

Lindsey Pogue, Lindsey Fairleigh · 2013 · The Ending

Two best friends survive a flu-apocalypse and cross a shattered country to find each other as new powers emerge.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · survivor reunion · cross-country search · post-plague survival · changed survivors · developing powers · friendship quest · colony search · rebuild society · find each other

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · pandemic aftermath · United States · west coast · east coast · Colorado · Seattle · Salem · survivalist wilderness · collapsed infrastructure · world-ending plague

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Distance: 0.1433

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Breakers

Edward W. Robertson · 2012 · Breakers

A flu apocalypse splits two survivor groups across America, then reveals a deadly alien agenda beneath the collapse.

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Premise labels: viral plague · survival · post-collapse survival · alien invasion · dual survival arcs · cross-country journey · civilization collapse · survivor groups · resistance

Setting labels: New York City · Los Angeles · United States · coast to coast · urban collapse · post-apocalyptic landscape · abandoned mansion · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1437

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Orleans

Sherri L. Smith · 2013

A fierce teen in a quarantined, blood-typed Orleans fights to save a newborn while an outsider scientist seeks a cure.

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Premise labels: quarantined city · blood type society · viral outbreak · survival quest · protect the baby · scientist outsider · cross-border mission · resource scarcity · primitive society · post-disaster rebuilding

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic city · quarantined zone · walled-off city · flooded landscape · swamp setting · storm-damaged coast · near future · dystopian future · tribal society · New Orleans setting · Gulf Coast setting

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Dog Blood

David Moody · 2010 · Hater

In a ravaged England, an infected father hunts for his daughter while rival factions fight to survive and dominate.

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Premise labels: survival · catastrophe · infected faction · faction conflict · family search · daughter quest · apocalypse · war for survival · infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · England · London · city centers · quarantine zones · refugee areas · war zone · ravaged landscape

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Distance: 0.1558

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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

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Los Angeles · United States · safe haven · tower setting · wider world · highway · military context

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The Hunted

Matt de la Peña · 2015 · The Living

A teen survivor must cross a ruined California to deliver a cure while gangs and secrets turn everyone into a target.

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Premise labels: survival mission · post-apocalyptic journey · quarantined wasteland · disease outbreak · vaccine transport · fugitives on the run · hunted protagonists · cross-country trek · societal collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic California · post-apocalyptic Arizona · West Coast · cruise ship · at sea · quarantined region · lawless wasteland · gang-controlled zones · earthquake aftermath · tsunami aftermath · pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.1579

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Destroyer

Bobby Adair · 2013 · Slow Burn

A rage-fueled survivor pushes deeper into a collapsing world of infected, seeking rescue, revenge, and a fragile safe haven.

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Premise labels: virus outbreak · infected survivors · immune protagonist · small survivor group · rescue mission · revenge quest · safe haven search · siege survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · virus-ravaged world · hospital siege · safe house · bunker · woods

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Distance: 0.1588

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Extinction Shadow

Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri · 2019 · Extinction Cycle: Dark Age

Eight years after civilization’s collapse, survivors face an evolved mutant threat that could restart extinction.

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Premise labels: post apocalypse · virus outbreak · mutant threat · human survival · rebuilding civilization · hidden enemy · evolved monsters · outpost defense · renewed conflict · survival war

Setting labels: post apocalyptic America · Allied States of America · outposts · collapsed cities · frontier · near future · rebuilding society · military zones

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White Flag of The Dead

Joseph Talluto · 2011 · White Flag of the Dead

A father protects his infant son through a zombie outbreak while survivors try to build a new community.

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Premise labels: virus outbreak · reanimated dead · survival quest · protect family · rebuild society · leader emergence · community survival · end times

Setting labels: zombie apocalypse · post collapse world · suburban America · city to suburb migration · survivor communities · school refuge · gas station stop · home defense · civilization collapse

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Frontier Justice

Arthur T. Bradley · 2013 · The Survivalist

After a man-made supervirus collapses society, a U.S. marshal fights to protect a survivor town from violent chaos.

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Premise labels: pandemic survival · viral outbreak · collapse of society · lawman protagonist · town defense · survivalist skills · good vs evil · frontier justice · post-collapse law enforcement · apocalyptic scavenging

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · rural town · wasteland · collapsed government · pandemic aftermath · survivalist cabin · lawless frontier · small-town survival · post-collapse civilization

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Allegiance

D.J. Molles · 2015 · The Remaining

A wounded special-forces leader rallies survivors in a ruined America as infected hordes and human factions close in.

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Premise labels: survival · military mission · infected horde · rebuilding society · alliance building · human conflict · siege · outbreak aftermath · resource scarcity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · bunker system · military camp · encampment · collapsed society · infected outbreak · apocalyptic wasteland · siege setting · bridges

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Strain

Amelia C. Gormley · 2014 · Strain

In a ruined future, a sheltered survivor must endure a sexually transmitted cure from soldiers to survive a deadly plague.

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Premise labels: virus survival · forced intimacy · sex as cure · immunity quest · plague aftermath · military rescue · do-or-die choice · survival dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · plague world · bioweapon fallout · military compound · monastery · ruined world · survivalist world · Earth

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Distance: 0.1677

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