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Premise labels used: occupation, resistance, guerrilla warfare, survival, rescue mission, teen fighters, enemy lines, occupied homeland

Setting labels used: Australia, Australian outback, war zone, occupied homeland, mountains, bush survival, hidden camp, enemy territory

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The Other Side of Dawn

John Marsden · 2007 · Tomorrow

As war nears its end, Ellie is separated from her friends and pushed through capture, escape, and a final fight for survival.

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Premise labels: enemy invasion · guerrilla resistance · occupied homeland · teen resistance · survival under occupation · final mission · war ending · postwar reckoning

Setting labels: Australia · rural outback · bush setting · war zone · occupied country · prison camp · hideout · farm · postwar

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Distance: 0.1097

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A Killing Frost

John Marsden · 2006 · Tomorrow

In occupied Australia, Ellie’s teen resistance crew targets a major harbor in a daring sabotage mission with brutal consequences.

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Premise labels: resistance · guerrilla warfare · enemy occupation · sabotage mission · survival under invasion · improvised explosives

Setting labels: Australia · winter · war zone · occupied territory · rural landscape · outback · harbor · port · prison

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Distance: 0.1377

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After the Lights Go Out

Lili Wilkinson · 2018

In an isolated Australian town, a prepper’s daughters must choose between family rules and helping their community after the power fails.

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Premise labels: doomsday prepper · power outage · end-of-world event · survival dilemma · family secrecy · community versus family · isolated town · resource scarcity

Setting labels: Australian outback · remote mining town · isolated community · small-town crisis · post-apocalyptic Australia · bush setting

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Distance: 0.2216

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Sixth Column

Robert A. Heinlein · 1999

In occupied America, six survivors use a secret breakthrough and a fake faith to spark a hidden rebellion.

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Premise labels: occupied America · underground resistance · secret weapon · fake religion · guerrilla war · underdog fightback · scientific breakthrough · occupation narrative · insurgency · invasion response

Setting labels: occupied United States · Rocky Mountains · Colorado · secret mountain base · wartime America · future America · alternate history · military occupation · concentration camps · police state

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The Ask and the Answer

Patrick Ness · 2014 · Chaos Walking

Separated by war and power, Todd and Viola must survive a brutal new order while trying to find each other again.

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Premise labels: resistance under occupation · civil war · separated protagonists · forced alliance · imprisonment · rebellion · political takeover · war ethics · survival struggle

Setting labels: New World · colonized planet · small town · occupied city · war zone · post-apocalyptic setting · alien world · imprisonment setting · martial law

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Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream

Aaron Allston · 2002 · Star Wars: The New Jedi Order

After Coruscant falls, Luke, Leia, Han, and Wedge rally a covert rebel counterstrike against the Yuuzhan Vong.

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Premise labels: resistance · occupation · counteroffensive · guerrilla war · rebel revival · behind-enemy-lines mission · suicidal mission · political collapse · improvised defense · infiltration

Setting labels: post-fall of Coruscant · Borleias · Coruscant · galactic war · occupied territory · spacefaring setting · military campaign · far future · interplanetary

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Earth Alone

Daniel Arenson · 2016 · Earthrise

A drafted teen must survive brutal boot camp and become a soldier as humanity fights insectoid aliens.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · drafted soldiers · boot camp · war of attrition · human resistance · survival war · coming of age · reluctant soldier

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · wartime Earth · military training camp · space warfare · interstellar conflict

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Distance: 0.2344

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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

Ambelin Kwaymullina · 2012 · The Tribe

A captured rebel with hidden powers faces mind-reading interrogation while her tribe’s survival and the world’s balance hang in the balance.

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Premise labels: captured rebel · interrogation · detention camp · special abilities · runaway youth · oppressive government · memory extraction · betrayal · hunt for fugitives · survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · far future · detention centre · forest refuge · wilderness · future Australia · single landmass · eco-dystopia · rebuilt society · renewed nature

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Distance: 0.2383

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Cold Falling White

G.S. Prendergast, Gabrielle Prendergast · 2019 · The Nahx Invasions

After an alien invasion, two teens on opposite sides of the war uncover unsettling truths about what the Nahx did to humanity.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · teen survival · human resistance · enemy perspective · post-apocalyptic crisis · identity transformation · hidden truth · war on Earth

Setting labels: Canada · winter setting · snowy landscape · post-apocalyptic Earth · human-controlled territory · alien-occupied territory · refugee camp

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Distance: 0.2387

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The Drowned Cities

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2012 · Ship Breaker

In flooded, war-torn America, two refugee teens and a bioengineered fighter are pulled into a brutal fight to survive.

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Premise labels: survival · war zone · child soldiers · post-collapse society · rescue mission · refugees · bioengineered weapon · resource scarcity · flee or rescue · faction conflict

Setting labels: flooded America · war-torn future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · Washington, D.C. · jungle outskirts · swamps · ruined city · civil war · climate change

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Distance: 0.2393

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Escaping the Dead

W.J. Lundy · 2014 · Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

A stranded U.S. Army patrol in Afghanistan must survive a sudden outbreak as radio contact and safe ground vanish.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · military survival · isolated patrol · convoy mission · outbreak · small unit survival · enemy-to-ally cooperation

Setting labels: Afghanistan · desert · war zone · military convoy · isolated base · post outbreak world

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Distance: 0.2408

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The Last Woman in the World

Inga Simpson · 2021

A reclusive Australian artist must leave her shelter to help a mother and baby survive a mysterious, fear-fed catastrophe.

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Premise labels: reclusive survivor · forced refuge · stranger at the door · fear as threat · survival journey · search for loved ones · world collapse · mysterious death

Setting labels: Australian bush · Australia · Canberra · New South Wales · south coast · Snowy Mountains · near future · post-pandemic · post-bushfire · post-apocalyptic · isolated homestead · road journey · Parliament House · familiar real-world setting

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Distance: 0.2431

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