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Premise labels used: runaway science, bioengineering gone wrong, food supply crisis, genetic mutation outbreak, survival quest, cross-country journey, monster apocalypse, corporate science disaster, predator transformation

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic, United States, cross-country, farmhouse, biodome, scientific complex, lab quest, monstrous wilderness, collapsed civilization

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Hunger: The Complete Trilogy

Jeremy Robinson · 2023 · Hunger

A GMO fix for world hunger unleashes monstrous adaptation, forcing survivors to cross a ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: food shortage · genetic modification · runaway adaptation · species mutation · survival story · civilization collapse · monster outbreak · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · family farmhouse · biodome · cross-country journey · global collapse · monster-haunted world

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Distance: 0.1272

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Born to Fight

Tara Brown, A.E. Watson · 2013 · Born

A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.

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Premise labels: captivity escape · revenge quest · genetic experiment · forced mutation · survival struggle · family secret · love triangle · zombie outbreak · mad scientist · corrupt government

Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse

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Distance: 0.1840

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Victim Zero

Joshua Guess · 2013 · The Fall

A brilliant scientist tied to a cure project must survive the outbreak he helped unleash as the world collapses.

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Premise labels: bioengineered outbreak · scientist protagonist · accidental apocalypse · cure quest · virus mutation · airborne infection · post-apocalyptic survival · moral dilemma

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie apocalypse · Cincinnati · laboratory setting · biotech setting · United States

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Distance: 0.1859

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Thunder and Ashes

Z.A. Recht · 2008 · Morningstar Strain

Survivors cross a shattered America toward a possible vaccine while zombies, raiders, and rogue humans close in.

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Premise labels: zombie outbreak · viral apocalypse · search for cure · vaccine quest · survivor convergence · cross-country journey · lawless aftermath · resource scarcity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic United States · wasteland journey · Omaha research facility · ruined countryside · collapsed society

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Distance: 0.1868

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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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Distance: 0.1939

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Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus

Mira Grant · 2015 · Newsflesh

A post-apocalyptic virologist runs a secret lab and faces an unexpected intruder, spies, and dangerous secrets.

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Premise labels: underground lab · virology lab · post-apocalypse survival · lab attack · spy infiltration · mysterious intruder · scientific crisis · outlaw science

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · zombie apocalypse · underground lab · illegal lab · scientific compound · forest lab · alternate Earth · post-Rising · post-series

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Distance: 0.1951

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Partials

Dan Wells · 2012 · Partials Sequence

In a virus-ravaged future, a teen medic hunts for a cure by studying the engineered beings blamed for humanity’s fall.

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Premise labels: human extinction · viral apocalypse · engineered soldiers · cure quest · medical mystery · survival story · race against time

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · Long Island · North America · island refuge · collapsed civilization · wasteland

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Distance: 0.2017

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Extinction Edge

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2015 · Extinction Cycle

A military strike team and a scientist race to reclaim New York as a failed cure creates smarter, deadlier Variants.

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Premise labels: bio-weapon aftermath · viral outbreak · mutant threat · military reclamation · survival mission · human extinction

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · New York City · Fort Bragg · Plum Island · military base · urban ruins · continental collapse · contaminated city

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Distance: 0.2032

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Extinction End

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2016 · Extinction Cycle

A battered military team mounts one last counterattack as viral monsters evolve and human loyalties fracture.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · human survival · last stand · containment failure · monster invasion · rescue mission · counterattack · race to save humanity · post-collapse warfare · bioweapon

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · North Atlantic · naval command center · Plum Island · New York · Washington, D.C. · military base · sea and land fronts · global collapse · biological apocalypse

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Distance: 0.2047

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin · 2012 · The Passage

As a viral apocalypse unfolds across timelines, survivors race to stop the originals and protect what remains of humanity.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · end times · survival quest · vampire apocalypse · human experimentation · hunt the originals · post-collapse struggle · save humanity · immortality pursuit · power struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · present day · near future · far future · year zero · apocalypse aftermath · collapsed society · human survival camp · militarized society

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Distance: 0.2059

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The Immune: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

David Kazzie · 2019 · The Immune

A natural survivor races across a ruined America after a virus wipes out most of humanity.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · post-plague survival · natural immunity · cross-country quest · search for daughter · societal collapse · world reset · survivor band · quest narrative · good vs evil

Setting labels: New York City · United States · cross-country journey · ruined America · post-apocalyptic world · post-plague world · contemporary-feeling setting

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Distance: 0.2065

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White · 2022

A trans teen fleeing a doomsday cult finds refuge with queer survivors, even as his body becomes their apocalypse.

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Premise labels: runaway teen · cult escape · monster transformation · bioweapon mutation · queer resistance · found family · survival story · revenge against oppressors

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · cult-controlled society · LGBTQ center refuge · dystopian landscape · religious theocracy · biohazard world · small-survivor community

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Distance: 0.2087

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