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William R. Forstchen

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Premise labels used: solar storm, coronal mass ejection, extinction event, continuity of government, shelter selection, survival triage, government crisis response, resource allocation

Setting labels used: near future, United States, Washington DC, Missouri, underground bunker, government bunker, NASA, post-CME world, pre-apocalypse, global crisis

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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: 0.1611

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Five Years After

William R. Forstchen · 2023 · After

Five years after an EMP collapse, a reluctant leader is pulled into a hidden power struggle that could doom what remains.

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Premise labels: EMP aftermath · civilization collapse · fragile republic · shadow government · government takeover · plague outbreak · another EMP attack · post-collapse rebuilding · last-resort leadership · moral dilemma · national survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-EMP world · near future · small-town survival · underground bunker · regional powers · former United States · North Carolina · Washington area · global collapse · civilization recovery

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Distance: 0.1673

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Sunstorm

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter · 2006 · A Time Odyssey

A looming solar catastrophe forces humanity to unite, invent, and race to survive an alien-planned extinction event.

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Premise labels: extinction event · solar catastrophe · human survival · alien intervention · global crisis · last-chance defense · planetary survival

Setting labels: near future · Earth · 2037 · 2042 · space stations · Moon · solar system · hard SF future

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Distance: 0.1685

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Frozen Earth

Jasper T. Scott · 2018 · Rogue Star

A devastated man learns Earth faces a rogue star, an ice age, and a hidden alien threat as his family races to survive.

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Premise labels: rogue star · ice age threat · alien signals · family survival · government conspiracy · Mars colony · post-collapse survival · first contact · apocalypse response

Setting labels: near-future Earth · solar system · United States · Texas · Mars · underground bunker · compound · apocalyptic future · cold climate · post-collapse world

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Distance: 0.1816

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The Last Centurion

John Ringo · 2008

An Army officer narrates a near-future collapse sparked by pandemic and climate disaster while trying to get his troops home.

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Premise labels: pandemic · mini ice age · societal collapse · military officer · survival · homecoming · disaster recovery · post-collapse rebuilding

Setting labels: near future · United States · Middle East · Iran · global setting · pandemic era · climate crisis · wartime logistics

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Distance: 0.1818

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Meet Me at World's End

Jordan Rivet · 2020 · Bunker

As a comet threatens Earth, two young adults in different roles race through a bunker program built to save a chosen few.

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Premise labels: comet impact · end of the world · cryosleep survival · bunker project · selected survivors · resource scarcity · future rescue

Setting labels: college campus · underground bunker · cryosleep facility · contemporary Earth · United States · post-apocalyptic future · pre-apocalypse · world-ending crisis · bunker network · apocalypse aftermath

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Distance: 0.1835

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Moonfall

Jack McDevitt · 1999

When a fast-moving comet threatens the Moon and Earth, a crowded ensemble races to evacuate Moonbase and avert disaster.

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Premise labels: comet impact · moon disaster · moonbase evacuation · apocalyptic threat · race against time · space evacuation · global catastrophe · extinction event

Setting labels: near future · 21st century · Moonbase · Earth · space stations · Moon · Mars mission · United States · global

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Distance: 0.1839

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Commune: Book One

Joshua Gayou · 2017 · Commune

After a solar flare and plague collapse civilization, a small band of survivors fights to stay human while building a new community.

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

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

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Distance: 0.1846

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The Deluge

Stephen Markley · 2023

A near-future American epic where climate crisis and political breakdown pull a vast cast toward collapse and hard choices.

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Premise labels: climate crisis · political collapse · near-future collapse · American upheaval · environmental disaster · activism · eco-terrorism · government gridlock · solidarity · salvage humanity

Setting labels: near future · 2013-2040 · 2013-2039 · 2013-2040s · early 21st century · American setting · United States · California · Wyoming · Gulf Coast · Los Angeles · Midwest · Washington, DC · climate-ravaged world · post-collapse future

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Distance: 0.1853

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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson · 2015

After the moon shatters, humanity races to survive in orbit, then confronts a radically changed Earth millennia later.

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Premise labels: moon disaster · species survival · orbital ark · human extinction · future return

Setting labels: near future · space station · low Earth orbit · outer space · far future · post-cataclysm Earth · futuristic Earth

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Distance: 0.1864

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A Bright Shore

S.M. Anderson · 2020 · The Eden Chronicles

A former special operator is pulled into a secret multiverse escape plan as governments tighten their grip on a collapsing world.

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Premise labels: near-future collapse · parallel Earth escape · alternate world colonization · government overreach · freedom vs control · secret exodus · civilizational reset

Setting labels: near future · 2031 · collapsed Western civilization · global crisis · alternate Earth · parallel universe · virgin world · military future · United States

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Distance: 0.1885

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After America

John Birmingham · 2010 · The Disappearance

Three years after a mysterious catastrophe empties North America, rival forces clash over New York, Texas, and the new order.

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Premise labels: disaster aftermath · civilizational collapse · power vacuum · rebuilding · occupation struggle · urban warfare · national reconstruction · resource scarcity · state failure · survival struggle · recolonization · geopolitical upheaval

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · New York City · Texas · England · Seattle · Washington, DC · Middle East · global collapse · urban battlefield · recolonized frontier · alternate future · near-future · wasteland

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Distance: 0.1907

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