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Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O'Brien

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Premise labels used: last survivor, nuclear aftermath, isolated valley, mysterious stranger, survival standoff, end-of-the-world loneliness

Setting labels used: post-nuclear world, isolated valley, rural farm, microclimate refuge, wasteland beyond

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 2012 · Pure

In a nuclear-ravaged world split between Dome-dwellers and mutated survivors, two teens risk everything to find truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear aftermath · split society · survival quest · escape from dome · lost mother search · apocalyptic mutation · controlled enclave · outside world survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear holocaust aftermath · domed enclave · wasteland · ash-covered world · controlled society · ruined Earth · climate-controlled dome

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Distance: 0.1567

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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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Metro 2035

Dmitry Glukhovsky · 2016 · Metro

In post-nuclear Moscow, Artyom hunts for other survivors and the truth, facing an underground society built on fear.

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Premise labels: post-nuclear survival · underground society · search for survivors · lost world · surface return · radio contact · truth seeking

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Moscow · Moscow Metro · underground city-states · radiation-scarred surface · nuclear aftermath · sealed shelter world

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Distance: 0.1719

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Yesterday's Gone: Season One

Sean Platt, David W. Wright · 2011 · Yesterday's Gone

After most of humanity vanishes overnight, a scattered group of survivors faces monsters, secrets, and each other.

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Premise labels: mass disappearance · survivor ensemble · empty world · mystery catastrophe · post-collapse survival · unknown threat · search for loved ones · apocalypse aftermath · humanity vanished

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · United States · empty cities · Manhattan · survival world · civilization collapse

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Distance: 0.1741

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Wake Me After the Apocalypse

Jordan Rivet · 2018 · Bunker

An 18-year-old wakes alone in a damaged cryosleep bunker after a comet apocalypse and must survive a changed world.

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Premise labels: end of the world · cryosleep bunker · lone survivor · repopulation mission · survival ordeal

Setting labels: post apocalyptic future · underground bunker · cryosleep program · Earth after comet impact · long-dormant future

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Distance: 0.1750

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The Defenders

Philip K. Dick

After nuclear war forces humanity underground, a crew investigates the robots fighting on the surface and discovers a disturbing truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear war · underground bunker · robot proxy war · radiation survival · truth hidden from humanity · post-apocalyptic world

Setting labels: Cold War · post-nuclear future · underground society · radioactive wasteland · surface war zone · alternate future

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Distance: 0.1781

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 2011

The last human on Earth battles vampire-like infected by day and isolation by night, while searching for answers.

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Premise labels: last human · vampire plague · survival · lonely survivor · scientific investigation · find a cure · last man on earth

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined civilization · isolated house · night survival · daylight survival · urban ruins

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Wonder Woman: Dead Earth

Daniel Warren Johnson · 2020 · Wonder Woman: Dead Earth

Wonder Woman wakes in a ruined future and must protect humanity while uncovering the truth behind Earth’s destruction.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · hero wakes up later · lost world mystery · monster-fighting · last city · doomsday aftermath · second chance

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · dystopia · ruined future · last human city · monster-haunted world · Themyscira

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Geiger, Vol. 1

Geoff Johns · 2021 · Geiger

A radioactive wasteland legend protects two fleeing children while his bunker-bound family and a brutal warlord loom nearby.

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Premise labels: post-nuclear survival · radioactive hero · found family · protective quest · wasteland conflict · bunker guardian · mythic survivor · children on the run

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · nuclear wasteland · Nevada desert · Las Vegas · fallout shelter · near future · 2050 · radioactive world · desert frontier

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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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Sick Bastards

Matt Shaw · 2014 · Sick Bastards

A memoryless family survives nuclear fallout in isolation, but hunger, taboo, and hidden truths reshape them.

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Premise labels: survival horror · nuclear fallout · family survival · amnesia · identity mystery · extreme horror · post-apocalyptic survival · moral collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · nuclear aftermath · isolated house · remote wilderness · collapsed world · infected outside · unknown reality

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Asfixia

Alex Mírez · 2016

After a toxic air catastrophe kills nearly everyone, one immune survivor uncovers hidden factions and a buried truth.

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Premise labels: last survivor · toxic air · mass extinction · immune protagonist · survival mystery · hidden society · underground civilization · truth-seeking · post-collapse world · end-of-humanity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · surface wasteland · underground city · civilian bunker · toxic atmosphere · future setting · collapsed society · government-controlled regime

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Distance: 0.1811

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