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Premise labels used: radiation cleanup, ecological reclamation, bioengineered insects, contaminated land, hidden survivors, legacy of war, scientific problem-solving, restricted zone

Themes labels used: legacy, reclamation, repair, environmental restoration, human responsibility, social prejudice, outsiders, inherited trauma, memory, future generations, class inequality, acceptance, hope, bittersweet progress, moral action, science and ethics, can’t fix the past

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The Afterlife Project

Tim Weed · 2025

Two timelines race against human extinction: one scientist survives the deep future, while others search for a way to continue the species.

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Premise labels: human extinction · species survival · future mission · last chance · fertility quest · scientific rescue · deep future · post-collapse survival · lonely survivor · repopulation

Themes labels: climate collapse · human extinction · hope and despair · stewardship · interconnectedness · ecological responsibility · legacy · resilience · meaning-making · ethics · scientific responsibility · love · faith · nature persists · human fragility · endangered future · overconsumption · civilizational collapse · mortality · time

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Greybeard

Brian W. Aldiss · 2001

A post-apocalyptic river journey through a sterile, aging England where nature returns and hope is scarce.

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Premise labels: sterile humanity · last generation · world without children · nuclear accident · civilizational collapse · nature reclaims world · aging population

Themes labels: sterility · extinction · aging · mortality · legacy · meaning of life · human hubris · ecocide · coping with loss · hope vs despair · civilizational decline · nature vs civilization · survival · resignation

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

Hayao Miyazaki · 1995 · 風の谷のナウシカ [Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä]

A young princess navigates a poisoned post-apocalyptic world, war, and a fragile bond with giant insects.

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Premise labels: ecological collapse · post-apocalyptic survival · toxic world · resource conflict · human-nature conflict · princess heroine · war over resources · communication with creatures · environmental resistance · world restoration

Themes labels: environmentalism · anti-war · ecology · conservation · humanity and nature · peace · compassion · technology and ruin · imperialism · biodiversity · survival · moral ambiguity · leadership · hope and despair · reconstruction · community · responsibility · power and greed

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Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro

Liliana Colanzi · 2022

Six strange stories from Bolivia blend radiation, caves, faith, and social unrest into a haunting literary collection.

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Premise labels: geologic time · nuclear fallout · radiation threat · industrial contamination · cultural repression · social critique

Themes labels: ecology · extractivism · capitalism · colonialism · racism · gender violence · maternity · social inequality · human violence · industrial negligence · memory · time · modernity · freedom vs control · ignorance · human fragility

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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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Record of a Spaceborn Few

Becky Chambers · 2018 · Wayfarers

In a post-Earth fleet society, five lives collide as a disaster forces humans to rethink home, purpose, and belonging.

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Premise labels: generation ship · post-Earth humanity · community crisis · belonging · homecoming · cultural transition · space habitat · alien contact · social experiment · civilizational crossroads

Themes labels: belonging · community · identity · culture · heritage · legacy · tradition · change · stagnation · purpose · meaning of life · death · grief · life cycle · memory · record keeping · colonialism · colonization · immigration · emigration · reparations · social equality · communal living · sustainability · resource scarcity · economy · fairness · utopia · values · coming of age · humanity

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Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell · 2022

Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · ecological collapse · community survival · adaptation · resilience · resource scarcity · knowledge preservation · art under pressure · living architecture · intergenerational survival · local resilience · post-apocalypse

Themes labels: climate change · environmental grief · ecological stewardship · adaptation vs mitigation · resilience · hope · loss · memory · community · interdependence · collectivism · survival · future generations · small acts · art and survival · beauty and wonder · knowledge preservation · human impact on nature · sacrifice · mourning · rewilding · sustainable living · patience · long game · social networks

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Trashlands

Alison Stine · 2021

In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.

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Premise labels: climate apocalypse · post-collapse survival · plastic economy · mother-child separation · art as resistance · community survival

Themes labels: survival · climate change · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · maternal love · art and creativity · community · humanity · class inequality · gendered violence · patriarchy · capitalism · labor exploitation · hope amid ruin · responsibility · memory · sacrifice

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Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach

Kelly Robson · 2018

In a ravaged future Earth, an ecologist wins a time-travel survey to ancient Mesopotamia—and the mission may rewrite her world.

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Premise labels: ecological restoration · time travel mission · future Earth · ancient world survey · grant-funded science · resource competition · intergenerational conflict

Themes labels: climate change · ecological restoration · environmental remediation · long-term thinking · short-termism · capitalism critique · funding politics · bureaucracy · ethics of time travel · intergenerational conflict · bodily autonomy · human resilience · survival · colonial encounter · cultural clash · science and society · future of work · economics of research · humanity over time

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The Last Ship

William Brinkley · 1989

A Navy destroyer’s captain leads the last survivors of nuclear war through a ruined world toward uncertain refuge.

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Premise labels: nuclear war aftermath · last survivors · survival at sea · post-apocalyptic survival · world-ending catastrophe · repopulation dilemma · radiation contamination · search for safe harbor · command crisis

Themes labels: survival · leadership · command responsibility · morality · repopulation · gender politics · isolation · civilization collapse · hope · human nature · duty · mutually assured destruction · survivorship · community building · religion · justice

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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Nancy Kress · 2012

Three timelines collide as Earth falls, survivors steal hope from the past, and a mathematician uncovers the pattern.

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Premise labels: human extinction · environmental catastrophe · time travel · last survivors · gene pool recovery · kidnapped children · mystery investigation · alien shelter · civilization restart

Themes labels: environmental destruction · humanity vs nature · survival · repopulation · moral ambiguity · scientific responsibility · human culpability · hope after collapse · end of civilization · collective survival · genetics · time and consequence

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The Sins of Our Fathers

James S.A. Corey · 2022 · The Expanse

After the gates close, an isolated colony’s survival crisis forces one haunted man to confront his past.

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Premise labels: isolated colony · post-collapse · cut off from humanity · survival crisis · legacy consequences · guilt and redemption

Themes labels: human nature · guilt · redemption · trauma · legacy · cyclical violence · survival · social order · mercy · justice · reinvention · isolation · power and corruption · hope and futility · moral ambiguity

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