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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for The After War.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic America, North America, United States, Canada, British Columbia, underground bunker, remote cabin, desolate landscape, blighted towns, fortified towns, isolated communities, wilderness, dystopian future
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A prepared but isolated survivor must cross a ruined America to reunite with his friend as the dead rise and society collapses.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined world · North Carolina · Appalachian Mountains · mountain cabin · bunker · warehouse refuge · survival compound · societal collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0938
A battle-tested captain and surviving allies race to hold back the infected horde while rebuilding a shattered America.
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Setting labels: post apocalyptic America · United States · North Carolina · east coast · midwest · southeastern United States · bunkers · military outposts · collapsed society · viral apocalypse
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Distance: 0.0988
An ex-Ranger father and his teen son must survive an EMP-driven collapse and reach home, then family, on foot.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · present day US · Colorado · San Juan Mountains · Durango, Colorado · Maryland · Pittsburgh · backcountry · small town · lawless town · mountain setting · nuclear aftermath · societal collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1023
In a virus-ravaged near-future America, a Buddhist caretaker crosses the West with animal companions to deliver a possible cure.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · American West · Colorado · California · American Midwest · road trip setting · collapsed infrastructure · lawless roads · reclaimed wilderness · dystopian future · pandemic aftermath
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Distance: 0.1043
In a brutal post-apocalyptic winter, Alex and her scattered allies fight evolving monsters, betrayal, and each other.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · winter survival · wilderness · small-town enclave · dystopian America · apocalyptic America · isolated community · post-EMP world
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Distance: 0.1097
A fierce teenage wanderer crosses a zombie-ravaged America, chasing survival, redemption, and a place to belong.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined landscape · southern states · isolated island · frontier survival · enclaves · barricaded communities · lighthouse · wasteland
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Distance: 0.1106
A lone survivor uses a dead postman’s uniform to survive, and accidentally sparks hope of rebuilding civilization.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear war · collapsed society · wilderness travel · small settlements · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1112
After economic collapse, a scientist treks across a lawless America, learning survival with a wolf companion.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · North America · Midwest · Michigan · Montana · rural wilderness · lawless society · no electricity · no gasoline · no communication · collapsed infrastructure · economic breakdown · dark age · cave dwelling · ranch country
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Distance: 0.1121
In a ruined America, two allies leave a fortress city after a stranger’s warning and cross a deadly wasteland westward.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined United States · walled city · former St. Louis · wasteland · dead lands · Oregon route · far future · dystopian future · irradiated landscape · mutated ecosystem
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Distance: 0.1121
A telepathic warrior-priest and his mutant animal allies quest through post-apocalyptic North America for lost technology.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic North America · remote future · nuclear wasteland · radioactive wasteland · mutated ecology · future Canada · future United States · ruined cities · Great Lakes region · pastoral ruins · post-civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1130
After a man-made supervirus collapses society, a U.S. marshal fights to protect a survivor town from violent chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · rural town · wasteland · collapsed government · pandemic aftermath · survivalist cabin · lawless frontier · small-town survival · post-collapse civilization
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Distance: 0.1139
In a zombie-haunted walled town, a teen apprentice learns the real cost of survival, family, and mercy beyond the fence.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · zombie-infested world · walled town · fenced settlement · small community · outside the fence · dangerous wilderness · rot and ruin · near-future · post-outbreak society · survival enclave
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1140
