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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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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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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: 0.1003
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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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: 0.1393
A wealthy American family is forced to survive after the dollar collapses and the economy unravels.
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Setting labels: near future · United States · New York City · Washington, D.C. · Paris · Nevada · economic dystopia · post-collapse society · alternate future
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Distance: 0.1406
In a near-future US emptied by off-world flight, those left behind struggle to survive as the past comes back to claim Earth.
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Setting labels: near future · 2050s · United States · New Haven, Connecticut · Earth · space colonies · post-apocalyptic · post-climate apocalypse · radioactive Earth · irradiated land · crumbling cities · urban ruins · domed habitats · off-world colonies · American future
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Distance: 0.1416
An astronaut is remade into a cyborg to survive Mars, while the project’s human, political, and hidden costs mount.
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Setting labels: near future · Mars · Earth · Cold War era · nuclear brinkmanship · post-crisis world · United States · Oklahoma · space program · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.1429
A fragmented near-future dystopia where pollution, corruption, and disease push America toward ecological collapse.
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Setting labels: near future · future United States · global environmental crisis · urban dystopia · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · polluted earth
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Distance: 0.1434
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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Setting labels: near future · Earth · underground shelters · secret facility · post-apocalyptic world · radiation crisis · dystopian future · apocalyptic Earth
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Distance: 0.1448
A government agent is genetically upgraded against his will and must stop a plan to alter humanity itself.
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Setting labels: near future · mid-21st century · dystopian future · post-famine world · climate change · flooded cities · surveillance state · Washington DC · New York City · global crisis · post-apocalyptic
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Distance: 0.1457
An archaeologist and a global survival program race toward answers as a catastrophic asteroid impact exposes buried ancient secrets.
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Setting labels: near future · 2017 · 2040 · global · underground facilities · subterranean bunker · post-impact Earth · London · South Africa · New Mexico · United States · remote desert · apocalyptic world · clandestine facility
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Distance: 0.1466
A revived Army veteran is hunted by a shadowy conspiracy seeking cryogenic immortality, secrets, and control.
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Setting labels: near future · future Earth · post-collapse · dystopian world · fragmented United States · cyberwar aftermath · laboratory setting · ambulance · on the run · underground resistance · cold storage
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Distance: 0.1475
A hidden future-viewing device pulls two fugitives into a desperate race to stop an apocalypse before it arrives.
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Setting labels: present day · near future · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · Washington, D.C. · New York City · global stakes · alternate timeline
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Distance: 0.1484
A future agent sent to preserve history in D.C. begins questioning the truth behind his mission and his world.
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Setting labels: Washington, D.C. · contemporary setting · near future · future society · post-disaster future · post-9/11 · dystopian future · global conflict · political surveillance state · alternate timeline
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Distance: 0.1487
