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The Walking Dead, Vol. 25: No Turning Back

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Premise labels used: aftermath, community conflict, leadership crisis, retaliation dilemma, enemy at the border, post-attack recovery, human threat, power struggle

Setting labels used: zombie apocalypse, post-apocalyptic world, community settlements, multiple communities, Alexandria, boundary dispute, civilization collapse, survivalist setting

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The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death

Robert Kirkman · 2015 · The Walking Dead

As communities rebuild after war, a teen mistake and a ruthless new enemy ignite a terrifying new crisis.

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Premise labels: survival after apocalypse · community conflict · new threat · civilization rebuilding · human versus human · zombie apocalypse · border dispute

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · zombie wasteland · settlement politics · community fair · rebuilding society · multiple communities

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Distance: 0.1563

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The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard · 2007 · The Walking Dead

Trapped in a hostile enclave, survivors fight to escape as vengeance, betrayal, and collapse spread back home.

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Premise labels: escape · survival · siege · revenge · imprisonment · community conflict · apocalypse survival

Setting labels: zombie apocalypse · prison · walled community · contained community · post-collapse world · survivalist world

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Distance: 0.1657

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The People of Sparks

Jeanne DuPrau · 2004 · Book of Ember

After leaving Ember, Lina and Doon help their people survive above ground while a fragile new settlement edges toward conflict.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · refugee arrival · resource scarcity · community conflict · civil unrest · mystery of vandalism · peacebuilding

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground city · surface world · small village · ruined cities · resource-poor settlement · future earth

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Distance: 0.1883

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The Fall of the Governor: Part One

Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman · 2013 · The Walking Dead: Novels

A zombie-apocalypse power struggle is retold from Woodbury’s side as the Governor’s rule meets new arrivals.

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Premise labels: villain perspective · apocalypse survival · power struggle · compound politics · siege narrative · retelling · crossover event

Setting labels: zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic world · walled town · community compound · survivalist enclave · comic continuity

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Distance: 0.1942

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After America

John Birmingham · 2010 · The Disappearance

Three years after a mysterious catastrophe empties North America, rival forces clash over New York, Texas, and the new order.

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Premise labels: disaster aftermath · civilizational collapse · power vacuum · rebuilding · occupation struggle · urban warfare · national reconstruction · resource scarcity · state failure · survival struggle · recolonization · geopolitical upheaval

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · New York City · Texas · England · Seattle · Washington, DC · Middle East · global collapse · urban battlefield · recolonized frontier · alternate future · near-future · wasteland

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Distance: 0.1979

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Promised

Caragh M. O'Brien · 2012 · Birthmarked

A young midwife turned leader must win refuge for her people while a ruthless regime weaponizes fertility and family.

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Premise labels: leadership crisis · post-collapse refuge · reproductive control · gene pool crisis · forced reproduction · negotiation under threat · survival stakes

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · wasteland · walled city · ruins · future society · dystopian settlement

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Distance: 0.1998

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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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Distance: 0.2029

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Dark Fire

Ruby Dixon · 2022 · Fireblood Dragon

A fort medic and a ruthless would-be ruler clash, then reshape each other as a rift threatens their broken world.

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Premise labels: villain redemption · forced proximity · power imbalance · consort bargain · redemption arc · enemy lover · fort takeover · leader and medic · post-apocalyptic survival · rift crisis

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · fort settlement · dragon apocalypse · alien worldbuilding · mind link culture · survival setting · closed community · rift

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Distance: 0.2068

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After the Cure

Deirdre Gould · 2013 · After the Cure

A court psychologist and defense lawyer investigate a cured zombie plague—and a possible second outbreak.

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Premise labels: zombie cure · post-apocalypse aftermath · trial of creators · survival society · infected reintegration · psychological aftermath · legal accountability · second outbreak threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · walled city · rebuilding society · post-pandemic · fragile civilization · scarcity setting

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Distance: 0.2069

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Refugees

D.J. Molles · 2012 · The Remaining

A soldier-turned-leader fights to hold a growing refuge together as the infected evolve and human rivals close in.

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Premise labels: survival · rescue · rebuild society · camp leadership · resource scarcity · infected threat · internal conflict · refugee settlement · civilization recovery

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · North Carolina · Camp Ryder · refugee compound · walled settlement · outposts · bunkers · winter setting · infected world

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Distance: 0.2100

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Reap What You Sow

S.M. Anderson · 2020 · Seasons of Man

After a world-ending virus, rival survivor factions clash while former soldiers and civilians try to build order.

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Premise labels: post-pandemic survival · collapsed society · new settlements · survivor factions · power struggle · rebuilding civilization · virus aftermath · lawless world

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · post-pandemic world · collapsed civilization · dead world · no rules · United States · Virginia · Tysons Corner · Antarctica · Cuba · underground facility · submarine setting · military bunker

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Distance: 0.2114

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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

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · after the collapse · survivor settlements · rural refuge · communes · farm community

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Distance: 0.2115

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