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Premise labels used: EMP strike, power grid collapse, societal breakdown, urban survival, strangers band together, escape the city, bug out, family reunification, prepper shelter, city-to-rural journey

Setting labels used: New York City, Times Square, New Year's Eve, upstate New York, Lake Placid, Adirondacks, post-collapse America, modern day, electrical blackout, urban apocalypse

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The Unmapping

Denise S. Robbins · 2025

When New York's buildings begin shifting nightly, emergency workers, missing loved ones, and a city in crisis must adapt fast.

Why this is here

Premise labels: citywide disaster · moving city · inexplicable phenomenon · emergency response · missing person · bureaucratic crisis · social collapse · survival under chaos

Setting labels: New York City · near future · urban disaster · contemporary setting · alternate reality · surreal city · emergency services · climate-stressed world

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Distance: 0.1798

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A History of the Future

James Howard Kunstler · 2014 · World Made by Hand

In a collapsed near-future America, a small New York town faces murder, faith, and a fractured nation beyond its borders.

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Premise labels: civilizational collapse · post-collapse survival · small-town survival · community justice · fractured nation · social order · returning traveler · lawless future

Setting labels: upstate New York · small town · post-collapse America · holiday season · winter setting · near future · rural setting · fragmented nation · post-oil world · post-electric world

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Distance: 0.1862

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CyberStorm

Matthew Mather · 2013 · CyberStorm

A cyberattack and blizzard trap a New York father, forcing his family and neighbors to survive a collapsing city.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · grid collapse · infrastructure failure · survival under siege · city blackout · resource scarcity · family survival · communication blackout · information blackout · civil breakdown · catastrophe chain · technology dependence · preparedness

Setting labels: New York City · Manhattan · Chelsea · winter · Christmas · near future · urban disaster · apartment building · concrete jungle · isolated city · cold weather · grid-down

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Distance: 0.1934

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Zone One

Colson Whitehead · 2011

A survivor joins a Manhattan cleanup crew after a zombie plague, navigating trauma, bureaucracy, and the ruins of civilization.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · civilization rebuilding · city reclamation · survival mission · plague aftermath · cleanup mission · repopulation effort · social collapse

Setting labels: Manhattan · Lower Manhattan · post-apocalyptic New York · walled-off zone · reclamation zone · Buffalo government · near future · quarantined city · collapsed society · post-pandemic world

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Distance: 0.1951

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Darkness Begins

Harley Tate · 2017 · After the EMP Saga

When an EMP-like catastrophe cuts power and communication, a mother, daughter, and friends fight to stay together.

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Premise labels: EMP disaster · power outage · grid failure · collapse survival · homecoming · family reunion · resource scarcity · civil unrest · neighbor conflict · survival skills

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · urban · college campus · university town · Central Valley · Sacramento area · California · mountain retreat · modern world · power grid collapse · communications blackout · spring break

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Distance: 0.2021

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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.

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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: 0.2058

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Chaos Rising

Kyla Stone · 2019 · Edge of Collapse

On Christmas Eve, an EMP blackout traps a reclusive veteran in Chicago as sudden disaster forces impossible choices.

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Premise labels: EMP event · power outage · civil collapse · sudden catastrophe · survival challenge · family crisis · disaster response · apocalypse beginning

Setting labels: Chicago · Christmas Eve · winter storm · cold weather · Michigan · airport setting · urban collapse · post-collapse America · isolated homestead · snowstorm

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Distance: 0.2066

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Mordacious

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2016 · The City

Two survivors trapped in a collapsing New York City fight zombies, scarcity, and growing feelings in a dual-POV apocalypse.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · city survival · stranded survivors · finding family · resource scarcity · small group survival · found family

Setting labels: New York City · urban apocalypse · hospital setting · island city · bridge shutdown · same universe · same world

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Distance: 0.2098

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Yours for the Taking

Gabrielle Korn · 2023

In 2050, three women become entangled in a climate-proof city where a billionaire’s feminist utopia hides darker control.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · survival project · female separatism · corporate feminism · billionaire control · city enclave · selective refuge · queer love under pressure · utopian experiment · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: near future · 2050 · Brooklyn · Manhattan · weather-damaged world · sealed city · domed enclave · urban dystopia · global climate crisis · space-bound elite

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Distance: 0.2107

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Edge of Anarchy

Kyla Stone · 2020 · Edge of Collapse

In a winter-ravaged EMP apocalypse, survivors face militia rule, reunions, and deadly choices as home finally comes into reach.

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Premise labels: power grid collapse · societal collapse · family survival · homecoming · kidnapped survivor · post-collapse town conflict · militia takeover · resource scarcity · winter survival · protect loved ones

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · EMP aftermath · winter setting · snowstorm · rural Michigan · small-town · homefront · collapsed society · isolated community

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Distance: 0.2116

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Turbulent

T.L. Payne · 2019 · Days of Want

An EMP strands a college freshman in Chicago, forcing her to flee chaos while protecting a young girl and finding family.

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Premise labels: EMP attack · power grid collapse · communications blackout · survival journey · city escape · family reunion · prepper skills · protective guardian

Setting labels: Chicago · airport setting · urban breakdown · United States · contemporary near-future · civil unrest · post-collapse world

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Distance: 0.2119

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Tomorrow's Children

Daniel Polansky · 2024

Generations after Manhattan’s isolation, rival factions face a destabilizing outsider and a fragile order ready to break.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic city · isolated island · gang warfare · outsider arrival · territorial conflict · civilizational aftermath · language drift · mutated population · power vacuum · uneasy peace

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic New York · Manhattan · island isolation · ruined city · generations after apocalypse · factional city-state · neo-medieval society · retro-futurism · urban wasteland · closed system

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Distance: 0.2160

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