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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

Themes labels used: human nature, moral choice, sacrifice, public good, corruption, survival ethics, leadership, duty, faith, selfishness, collective responsibility, triage, civilization collapse, resource scarcity, better angels

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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

Themes labels: survival · apocalypse · humanity · collective action · science and society · free will · alien ethics · fragility of civilization · human ingenuity · hope · religion and politics · species survival · technology and responsibility · existential risk

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Downward Cycle

J.K. Franks · 2016 · Catalyst

After a solar flare knocks out power worldwide, a coastal-town loner and new allies fight chaos, conspiracies, and control.

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Premise labels: global blackout · solar flare disaster · civilization collapse · survival crisis · prepper scenario · government conspiracy · small-town survival · resource scarcity · lawless breakdown · military control

Themes labels: survival · preparedness · social breakdown · human nature · loss of normalcy · self-reliance · cooperation · morality under pressure · government distrust · conspiracy · end of civilization · resource scarcity · order versus chaos · violence · resilience · technology dependence · social class

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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

Themes labels: survival · civilizational collapse · adaptation · morality under pressure · faith · religion · evolution · humanity · dehumanization · order vs chaos · violence · trauma · leadership · social breakdown · hope · fear of change · resourcefulness

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Fight for Power

Eric Walters · 2015 · The Rule of Three

After a global blackout, Adam’s fortified neighborhood faces new threats from outside and inside the walls.

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Premise labels: global blackout · power outage · survival community · fortified neighborhood · siege threat · internal betrayal · resource scarcity · post-disaster society

Themes labels: survival ethics · community cooperation · morality · responsibility · trust · human nature · resource scarcity · leadership · civilization fragility · preparedness · decision making · social order · violence · loyalty · coming of age

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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

Themes labels: survival · humanity · community · trust · resource scarcity · civilization collapse · moral compromise · rebuilding · self-reliance · practical survival · violence · trauma · human nature · adaptation · resilience · knowledge as power

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Cannibal Reign: A Post-Apocalyptic Horror Thriller Where the Only Law Is 'Eat or Be Eaten'

Thomas Koloniar · 2012

After an asteroid strike ends civilization, a prepared survival group and scattered survivors struggle through a brutal new world.

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Premise labels: asteroid impact · end-of-the-world · survival group · government secrecy · post-collapse survival · bunker survival · resource scarcity · cannibalism

Themes labels: survival · humanity · morality · civilization collapse · social breakdown · hope · hope amid ruin · animalism · gender roles · leadership · sacrifice · community · lawlessness

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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

Themes labels: survival · human resilience · preparedness · secrecy · cover-up · sacrifice · hope · rebuilding · social order · survival ethics · government power · trust · global crisis · collective action · humanity · nationalism · isolationism · responsibility · duty

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The Solar War

A.G. Riddle · 2019 · The Long Winter

Earth’s survivors face returning alien forces, internal conflict, and a desperate choice that could save or doom humanity.

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Premise labels: human survival · alien invasion · resource scarcity · extinction threat · frozen world · escape to another world · save humanity · post-catastrophe survival

Themes labels: survival · sacrifice · hope · loss · human nature · moral dilemma · extinction · leadership · duty · community conflict · choice under pressure · collective survival · surrender vs resistance

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When the English Fall

David Williams · 2017

After a solar storm wipes out modern power, an Amish farmer’s diary tracks faith, survival, and pressure from desperate outsiders.

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Premise labels: civilizational collapse · survival · community resilience · nonviolence under pressure · faith under crisis · outsider pressure · resource scarcity · social breakdown

Themes labels: faith · nonviolence · survival ethics · community · sacrifice · civilization fragility · preparedness · scarcity · generosity · neighborliness · moral choice · prayer · providence · human nature · identity · tradition · modernity critique · technology dependence · isolation · resilience · peace under pressure · responsibility · duty · apocalypse and belief

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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

Themes labels: survival · human ingenuity · human nature · technology · adaptation · sustainability · civilization · sacrifice · genetics · epigenetics · social organization · leadership · collective action · optimism · apocalypse · posthumanism

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We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season

K.C. Wayland · 2011 · We're Alive

A full-cast zombie apocalypse audio drama follows survivors fortifying a safe haven while human danger grows.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival · survivor group · safe haven · fortification · resource scarcity · human threat · post-collapse order

Themes labels: survival · humanity · morality · trust · leadership · community · resource scarcity · trauma · loss · hope · betrayal · civilization breakdown · malevolence of humans

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First Fate

Kendall Talbot · 2021 · Waves of Fate

An EMP leaves a cruise ship dead in the water, forcing passengers and crew to fight for survival as chaos escalates.

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Premise labels: EMP attack · cruise ship disaster · survival at sea · group survival · resource scarcity · human nature under pressure · command crisis · post-collapse survival

Themes labels: survival · human nature · leadership · resource scarcity · resilience · fear · desperation · morality under pressure · trauma · redemption · family protection · self-interest vs altruism · preparedness · trust · responsibility

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