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Premise labels used: survival, hidden truth, authoritarian society, resource scarcity, social hierarchy, coming of age, rebellion, secretive government, promotion system, separation by roles

Setting labels used: flooded future, post-apocalyptic world, walled enclave, strict society, resource-scarce settlement, climate disaster, isolated community, sector-based society, dystopian future

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Children of Eden

Joey Graceffa, Laura L. Sullivan · 2016 · Children of Eden

In a controlled post-apocalyptic city, an illegal second-born girl escapes hiding and gets pulled into rebellion and secrets.

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Premise labels: illegal child · one-child policy · hidden identity · survival · rebellion against system · post-collapse world · sealed city · artificial environment · resource scarcity · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · artificial city · controlled society · future world · inside/outside divide · futuristic dystopia · urban circles

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The Ferryman

Justin Cronin · 2023

In a hidden island utopia, a ferryman starts questioning his perfect world after a family assignment goes wrong.

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Premise labels: hidden utopia · island society · memory wipe · reincarnation cycle · social hierarchy · class divide · resistance movement · forced retirement · truth-seeking · mysterious world

Setting labels: island archipelago · isolated community · utopian enclave · post-apocalyptic world · deteriorating outside world · controlled society · artificially sustained society

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Rising: After the Thaw

Tamar Sloan, Heidi Catherine · 2020 · The Thaw Chronicles

In a climate-ravaged future, nine teens face a brutal proving that decides who will lead, reproduce, and survive.

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Premise labels: selection trial · survival competition · coming-of-age ordeal · social sorting · resource scarcity · reproductive control · climate-collapse society · outsider entrant · factional divide

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · climate-collapse world · acidic ocean · resource-scarce settlement · isolated community · former Alaska · super greenhouse · dystopian society · toxic environment · remnant outlands

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Cover of Shadow Children Complete Set, Books 1-7: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, and Among the Free by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shadow Children Complete Set, Books 1-7: Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, and Among the Free

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2008 · Shadow Children

In a future with a two-child law, hidden third children must survive, resist, and fight for freedom.

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Premise labels: forbidden children · hidden identity · survival under law · resource scarcity · government control · coming of age under oppression

Setting labels: future society · dystopian society · resource-scarce world · population-controlled society · authoritarian state · farming setting · suburban setting

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Kings of a Dead World

Jamie Mollart · 2021

In a climate-ravaged near future, a society survives by sleeping most of the year, until its hidden order starts to crack.

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Premise labels: resource scarcity · climate collapse · enforced hibernation · population control · survival regime · hidden conspiracy · social collapse · class divide · revolutionary resistance

Setting labels: near future · futuristic Earth · futuristic Britain · climate-ravaged world · flooded coastlines · arid landscape · hibernating city · post-collapse society · surveillance state · controlled district

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Alebrijes

Donna Barba Higuera · 2023 · The Last Cuentista

A boy in a barren future city is exiled into a hummingbird drone and uncovers his people’s hidden truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · protect younger sibling · oppressive regime · class divide · exile · mind transfer · drone body · hidden truth · resistance · quest · escape · community survival · post-collapse recovery

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · far future · barren wasteland · dystopian settlement · walled city · outlands · wasteland · hidden oasis · deadly wilderness · post-collapse California · future Latin American inspired setting · urban underclass

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Noble Conflict

Malorie Blackman · 2013

A new Guardian uncovers dangerous lies about his peaceful society after a rebel encounter leaves him questioning everything.

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Premise labels: post-war society · peacekeeping force · hidden truth · rebellion · state control · forbidden connection

Setting labels: future dystopia · post-apocalyptic world · walled city · war-damaged world · authoritarian society · frontier rebels

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The Wool Trilogy

Hugh Howey · 2014 · Silo

In a sealed underground silo, a mechanic turned sheriff uncovers secrets that could upend the last human society.

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Premise labels: underground society · toxic world · last survivors · sealed habitat · truth uncovering · authority questioning · survival society · controlled knowledge · secret history · rebellion

Setting labels: underground silo · post-apocalyptic Earth · toxic surface · dystopian future · isolated society · vertical society · stratified levels · self-sustaining enclave · claustrophobic setting · future Earth · subterranean society

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The Man Who Japed

Philip K. Dick · 1956

In a post-nuclear surveillance society, a propaganda man’s secret prank against the regime threatens his career and conscience.

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Premise labels: post-nuclear society · morality police · surveillance state · propaganda work · subversive prank · unconscious rebellion · anti-authoritarian

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near-future future · nuclear aftermath · urban future · colonies · state-controlled society · conformist society · panopticon

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The Broken Earth Trilogy

N.K. Jemisin · 2015 · The Broken Earth

In a shattered future Earth, an outcast mother searches for her lost daughter amid cataclysm, power, and betrayal.

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Premise labels: apocalypse · survival · environmental catastrophe · oppressed power users · geological magic · social collapse · recurring disaster · world-ending crisis · resource conflict · collective survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · single continent · future Earth · cataclysmic seasons · geologically unstable world · nonhuman beings · ancient civilization · far future · low-tech survival · broken world

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Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four

Veronica Roth · 2014 · Divergent

In a faction-divided future, a teen's impossible choices pull her into rebellion, secrets, romance, and loss.

Why this is here

Premise labels: faction society · identity choice · hidden divergence · coming of age · rebel society · secret society · survival quest · government control · forbidden uniqueness · romantic stakes

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Chicago · faction-based society · walled city · science-fiction setting · controlled society · futuristic city

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Omega's Deception

Lillian Sable · 2018 · Omegas of Pandora

An Omega hiding as a Beta in a brutal dystopia is drawn into the orbit of a powerful Alpha who wants to expose and claim her.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · claimed Omega · power imbalance · forbidden desire · survival sex · class oppression · alpha pursuit · biological destiny · deception

Setting labels: dystopian future · slums · sky city · class hierarchy · polluted world · post-apocalyptic world · futuristic city · oppressive society · scientific worldbuilding · factional power structure · air-scarce society

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