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Premise labels used: solar event, power grid collapse, pandemic aftermath, small survivor group, community building, survival quest

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic, near future, United States, rural survival, quasi-stone age, collapsed infrastructure, dark ages

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Under a Tell-Tale Sky

R.E. McDermott · 2015 · Disruption

After a solar storm collapses the grid, a ship captain and scattered survivors struggle through violence, scarcity, and corruption.

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Premise labels: grid collapse · solar storm · EMP event · power outage · resource scarcity · societal collapse · government corruption · survival journey · family reunion · shipboard survival

Setting labels: post-collapse America · rural and urban settings · coastal setting · shipboard setting · wilderness · farms · prisons · government centers · North America · pre-digital collapse

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Distance: 0.1636

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The Lightest Object in the Universe

Kimi Eisele · 2019

After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: grid failure · societal collapse · cross-country search · lost lovers · rebuilding community · survival · hope after collapse · post-collapse adaptation · finding home · communication breakdown

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age

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Distance: 0.1643

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A Single Light

Tosca Lee · 2019 · The Line Between

A bunker survivor races through a ravaged post-pandemic world to find medicine before time runs out.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · resource scarcity · race against time · medical mission · survival quest · bunker exit · save-the-world

Setting labels: underground bunker · silo · post-pandemic world · near-future · dystopian USA · Nebraska · war zones · abandoned cities · post-apocalyptic landscape · global pandemic reality

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Distance: 0.1650

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Cut

Annelie Wendeberg · 2018 · 1/2986

A suicidal teen in a ruined future is offered an apprenticeship that could help save humanity—or force her to kill to survive.

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Premise labels: survival quest · post-pandemic world · apprenticeship · chosen opportunity · secret history · end-of-world mystery · climate catastrophe · kill or survive

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · future Earth · mountain communities · small villages · isolated settlements · poisoned lowlands · rural survival · high technology pockets · climate-ravaged world · pandemic aftermath

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Distance: 0.1658

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood · 2009 · MaddAddam

Two women survive a man-made apocalypse while moving through a world of eco-faith, corporations, and engineered life.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · environmental collapse · eco-religion · survival tale · parallel narrative · same event

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic · pre-apocalyptic · corporate compounds · pleeblands · coastal city · parallel timeline

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Distance: 0.1725

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The Breakers Series #1-3

Edward W. Robertson · 2013 · Breakers

A pandemic-ravaged Earth faces a second threat from alien invaders as survivors fight, adapt, and resist.

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Premise labels: double apocalypse · pandemic survival · alien invasion · human survival · post-collapse resistance · ordinary people · multiple storylines · survivor groups

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · ruined America · New York · Los Angeles · upstate Idaho · Redding, California · Catalina Island · dystopian future · worldwide collapse · survivalist wilderness · ruins of cities

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Distance: 0.1728

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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: 0.1735

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The Ark

Christopher Coates · 2018 · The Ark

A secret sleeper program races to save a select few from an extinction-level comet and wakes into a changed world.

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Premise labels: extinction event · survival mission · secret government project · suspended animation · shelter building · rebuilding society · post disaster survival

Setting labels: near future · Earth · underground shelters · secret facility · post-apocalyptic world · radiation crisis · dystopian future · apocalyptic Earth

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Distance: 0.1749

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The Shock

Scott Nicholson · 2012 · After

After a solar storm wrecks technology and society, a young woman fights violent survivors and an evolving threat to stay alive.

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Premise labels: solar storm aftermath · civilization collapse · survival story · post-apocalyptic survival · zombie-like outbreak · evolving threat · survivor groups · road to safety · protective caretaker · family compound · military order

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · North Carolina · Blue Ridge Mountains · crumbling cities · ruins of civilization · solar flare world · electronic blackout · doomsday preparedness · survival camp · after the collapse

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Year One

Nora Roberts · 2017 · Chronicles of The One

A deadly pandemic topples civilization, then awakening magic and rival forces push survivors toward a new beginning.

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Premise labels: pandemic apocalypse · survivor communities · magic awakening · good versus evil · flight to safety · chosen one

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · world collapse · New York City · scattered survivors · New Hope · Scottish Highlands · urban ruins · lawless world

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Distance: 0.1752

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The Stand

Stephen King · 2021

A superflu wipes out most of humanity, and the survivors are pulled into a struggle between opposing forces of good and evil.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · post-apocalyptic survival · good vs evil · survivor community · supernatural conflict

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · biological disaster · desert communities · Boulder community · Las Vegas community · lab-origin catastrophe

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Wayward

Chuck Wendig · 2022 · Wanderers

Five years after a pandemic nearly ends civilization, survivors must rebuild while a sentient AI and a ruthless president threaten everything.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · rebuilding society · AI threat · pandemic aftermath · road trip · community defense

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · small-town Colorado · Ouray · cross-country journey · 5 years later · fragile new civilization

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Distance: 0.1761

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