Exploring from

Alter

Jeremy Robinson

Find similar books by

Combine common axes

Similar in premise + setting

These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Alter. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Premise labels used: survival ordeal, plane crash, stranded in wilderness, civilization vs nature, transformation arc, humanity tested

Setting labels used: Amazon rainforest, jungle survival, remote wilderness, uncertain contact with indigenous tribes, contemporary

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.

Exclude same author

Max ratings No limit

Amazonia

James Rollins · 2002

A missing Amazon expedition, a mysteriously healed survivor, and a spreading outbreak pull a rescue team into deadly jungle secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: lost expedition · jungle expedition · missing father · regenerated limb · spreading pandemic · race against time · cure hunt · secret tribe · big pharma

Setting labels: Amazon rainforest · South America · Brazil · remote village · jungle expedition · contemporary setting · natural hazard setting · biological wilderness · isolated tribe

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2069

Continue from here

A kiedy zniknie pustynia

Marie Pavlenko · 2022

In a near-future desert world, a young girl secretly follows tree hunters and discovers the truth about survival and nature.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · climate collapse · resource scarcity · desert world · tree hunting · gender restrictions · ecological awakening · coming of age

Setting labels: postapocalyptic future · desert landscape · climate-ravaged world · nomadic society · tribal community · resource-poor settlement · ruined Earth · near-future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2221

Continue from here

Посёлок

Kir Bulychev, Кир Булычев · 2005 · Доктор Павлыш

Crash-stranded survivors and their children struggle to preserve humanity on a hostile alien world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · crash landing · hostile planet · lost colony · return home · civilization vs wilderness

Setting labels: alien planet · remote planet · forest world · icy climate · long winter · post-crash colony · spacefaring future · isolated settlement

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2249

Continue from here

This Green Hell

Greig Beck · 2011 · Alex Hunter

A jungle drilling project unleashes a deadly microbe, forcing a damaged super-soldier and his team into a rescue mission.

Why this is here

Premise labels: jungle outbreak · scientific discovery gone wrong · quarantine crisis · rescue mission · super-soldier protagonist · ancient threat · biological horror · end-of-world stakes

Setting labels: Paraguayan jungle · South American rainforest · drilling site · remote camp · humid claustrophobic setting · fictionalized science setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2356

Continue from here

Contagion

Amanda Milo · 2019 · Gennekt

A germaphobic alien and a human woman escape captivity together and stumble into a funny, tender survival romance.

Why this is here

Premise labels: abduction · survival romance · alien-human pairing · forced proximity · road trip · wilderness trek · germaphobe hero · opposites attract

Setting labels: Earth-like forest · jungle · wilderness · desert biome · unknown planet · science fiction reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2360

Continue from here

Safari Honeymoon

Jesse Jacobs · 2014

A newlywed couple’s safari honeymoon in a surreal jungle turns into a strange, dangerous clash with nature.

Why this is here

Premise labels: honeymoon · jungle safari · remote wilderness · dangerous environment · newlyweds · hired guide · survival · human vs nature · alien landscape · entitled tourists

Setting labels: jungle · forest · rainforest · remote wilderness · alien world · surreal landscape · foreign environment · exotic locale · natural world · nonrealistic setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2369

Continue from here

The New Wilderness

Diane Cook · 2020

A sick girl and her mother join a wilderness experiment in a climate-ravaged future, testing survival, rules, and bonds.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate collapse · overpopulation · last wilderness · survival study · nomadic survival · mother daughter bond · human versus nature · hunter-gatherer living · leave no trace · urban escape

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · post-climate crisis · overcrowded city · polluted city · protected wilderness · nomadic camp life · wilderness reserve

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2372

Continue from here

The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · 2016 · The Wild Robot

A shipwrecked robot awakens alone on a wild island and must learn survival, belonging, and care among wary animals.

Why this is here

Premise labels: shipwrecked robot · stranded on island · survival · unexpected motherhood · found family · technology vs nature · animal community

Setting labels: remote island · wild island · animal-inhabited island · wilderness · nature-based setting · future world · post-shipwreck

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2379

Continue from here

Planet Zero

Lydia Hope · 2021

A crash survivor must adapt to a brutal alien tribe and navigate slow-burning bonds with an ostracized warrior.

Why this is here

Premise labels: spaceship crash survivor · stranded on alien planet · survival quest · tribal society · forbidden attachment · outcast hero · cross-species romance · resource scarcity

Setting labels: alien planet · primitive society · nomadic tribe · desert planet · steppe · post-crash settlement · pre-technological world · harsh wilderness

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2391

Continue from here

Mengele Zoo

Gert Nygårdshaug · 1994 · Mino-series

A rainforest boy becomes an eco-avenger whose war on exploitation forces readers to question violence, justice, and survival.

Why this is here

Premise labels: rainforest destruction · eco-activism · eco-terrorism · revenge quest · coming of age

Setting labels: rainforest setting · Amazonia · Latin America · global scope · near-contemporary setting · fictionalized South America · political reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2412

Continue from here

Saturation Point

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2024 · Terrible Worlds: Transformations

A scientist returns to a lethal equatorial jungle zone on a rescue mission, and discovers corporate secrets and ecological horrors.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate disaster · hostile ecology · rescue mission · scientific expedition · corporate secrecy · survival thriller · mystery zone · post-collapse Earth

Setting labels: near-future Earth · equatorial rainforest · climate-ravaged world · corporate dystopia · hostile jungle · quarantined zone · post-pandemic society · isolated society · high-heat high-humidity environment · wet-bulb conditions

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2424

Continue from here

Eden

Tim Lebbon · 2020

In a near-future world of rewilded forbidden zones, an adventure-racing team enters the deadliest one and finds nature fighting back.

Why this is here

Premise labels: nature reclaiming · climate crisis · forbidden zone · illegal traversal · extreme racing · survival expedition · man vs nature · nature strikes back

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · semi-apocalyptic world · global climate collapse · nature preserve · rewilded landscape · jungle setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2429

Continue from here