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Octavia E. Butler

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Premise labels used: post apocalypse, alien rescue, forced coexistence, genetic trade, human survival, species hybridization, repopulation, awakening survivors, contact with aliens, second chance

Setting labels used: post nuclear war, spacecraft, living ship, planetary resettlement, terraforming, isolated confinement, wilderness survival, far future, Earth, alien habitat, post apocalyptic Earth

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Lilith's Brood

Octavia E. Butler · 2000 · Xenogenesis

A post-apocalyptic trilogy about humanity’s survival bargain with aliens who demand genetic and social transformation.

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Premise labels: human survival · alien rescue · genetic trade · human-alien hybridization · species merger · postwar recovery · forced adaptation · posthuman future · planetary restoration · survival bargain

Setting labels: post-nuclear Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · alien ship · rehabilitated planet · cryogenic suspension · interstellar setting · posthuman society · mutated Earth

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Adulthood Rites

Octavia E. Butler · 1988 · Xenogenesis

A hybrid child raised between humans and aliens grows toward adulthood while both species fight over humanity's future.

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Premise labels: hybrid protagonist · human-alien contact · postwar survival · genetic trade · species future · identity conflict · forced change · extinction pressure

Setting labels: post-nuclear Earth · healed Earth · post-apocalyptic future · resister villages · trade villages · alien spacecraft · off-world habitat · shared-human-alien settlement · lawless frontier

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Distance: 0.1198

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Revelations

Paul Antony Jones · 2014 · Extinction Point

A survivor faces the truth behind Earth’s alien makeover as a post-apocalyptic journey reaches its final reveal.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · terraforming · human survival · post-collapse survival · end of the world · mysterious catastrophe · last survivors · alien takeover

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · alien-terraforming · red vegetation · alien world · North America · Alaska · California · Las Vegas · Point Loma · submarine · military base · space station · frozen world

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The Solar War

A.G. Riddle · 2019 · The Long Winter

Earth’s survivors face returning alien forces, internal conflict, and a desperate choice that could save or doom humanity.

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Premise labels: human survival · alien invasion · resource scarcity · extinction threat · frozen world · escape to another world · save humanity · post-catastrophe survival

Setting labels: Earth · frozen Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · space · underground bunker · underground citadel · distant planet · near future · ice age · ruined world

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Semiosis

Sue Burke · 2018 · Semiosis

Human colonists on an alien world confront sentient plants, survival pressures, and shifting generations.

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Premise labels: first contact · generation ship · planetary settlement · sentient plants · human colony · alien ecology · mutualism · utopian colony · communication barrier · survival on alien world

Setting labels: alien planet · space colony · future Earth · post-Earth disaster · ecological collapse · war-torn Earth · lush alien ecosystem · high-gravity world · older-than-Earth biosphere · spacefaring future

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Broken Earth

S.J. Sanders · 2020 · Argurma Salvager

A salvager alien and a resourceful human survivor form a forbidden bond on a ruined Earth overrun by violence.

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Premise labels: alien salvage mission · survival bargain · mate bond · outcast alien · post-apocalyptic survival · human-alien romance

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · spacefaring future · federation edge · ruined civilization · desert survival · dystopian future

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In the After

Demitria Lunetta · 2013 · In the After

A teen survivor and a silent toddler navigate a silent, monster-filled world, then uncover dangerous secrets in a refuge.

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Premise labels: survival · alien invasion · monster attack · post-collapse society · protective caregiving · safe haven with secrets · human survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · isolated house · walled compound · survivor settlement · controlled community · daylight danger · silent survival

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Out of the Ashes

L.A. Casey · 2017 · Maji

A survivalist from a dying Earth clashes with an alien shipmaster whose rescue mission could change both their futures.

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Premise labels: alien encounter · endangered humanity · survival romance · kidnapping romance · mate bond · rescuer rescuee · colliding cultures

Setting labels: dying Earth · post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian wasteland · spacecraft · alien planet · future Earth · interstellar setting

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Glacier

Miranda Bridges, Kyra Snow · 2020 · Elemental Mates

A starving human thief on a dying Earth becomes the key to an alien commander’s powers—and his mate.

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Premise labels: dying Earth · alien mates · compatible human · power unlocking · survival bargain · food scarcity · rescued women · species survival · captor bargain · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dying planet · desolate world · survival compound · alien spaceship · alien invasion · futuristic · scientific romance world · multiple factions

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Into the Light

David Weber, Chris Kennedy · 2021 · Out of the Dark

Earth rebuilds after an alien invasion while preparing for the invaders’ return and making first contact with new allies.

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Premise labels: alien invasion aftermath · post-invasion recovery · technological uplift · humanity rebuilds · new first contact · search for allies · return threat · survival against aliens · vampire alliance · interstellar conflict

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate Earth · spacefaring future · interstellar civilization · alien homeworld · first contact setting · planetary union · galactic empire · nuclear winter · future Earth

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Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

Dougal Dixon · 1990

An illustrated speculative history imagines humanity’s descendants mutating, engineering, and surviving across a far-future ruined Earth.

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Premise labels: future evolution · human evolution · genetic engineering · posthumanity · future anthropology · speculative biology · survival niches · environmental collapse · future history · human adaptation

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · space colonization · undersea habitation · ice age · greenhouse effect · ozone depletion · magnetic reversal · ruined planet · extreme environments

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Viper

Naomi Lucas · 2021 · Naga Brides

A human crew bargains with snake-like aliens on ruined Earth, and one woman becomes the object of an obsessive mate claim.

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Premise labels: alien mating · bride trade · female abduction · forced mate claim · human-alien exchange · survival romance · post-collapse reclamation · search for technology · enemy species attraction · hunter pursuit

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · distant future · Earth ruins · spacefaring humans · ruined world · alien-inhabited Earth · military facility ruins · wasteland setting · dystopian future

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