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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Theirs to Protect.
Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic earth, dystopian future, near-future, Texas, safe township, bunker, lawless outside world, collapsed civilization, nuclear aftermath
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A snarky mercenary and an energy-wielding arcanist team up in alien-ravaged Earth to recover what they’ve lost.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · alien-occupied world · dystopian future · apocalyptic aftermath
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Distance: 0.0776
Two Hulk futures collide: one pits him against a tyrannical older self, the other leaves him alone on a dead Earth.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · post-nuclear wasteland · alternate future · deserted Earth · dystopian city · bleak future · radiation-scarred world · nuclear holocaust
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.0852
A salvager alien and a resourceful human survivor form a forbidden bond on a ruined Earth overrun by violence.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · spacefaring future · federation edge · ruined civilization · desert survival · dystopian future
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Distance: 0.0856
A cosmic plague turns people into kaiju, and a few giant heroes must survive the wreckage of a world rebuilt around them.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · cosmic scale · destroyed city · wasteland · sealed city · outside the wall · dystopian future · survival society · space-faring threat
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Distance: 0.0868
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: 0.0868
A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · earth after disaster · collapse of civilization · desert landscape · quarantine · bunkers · ruins · American setting · global catastrophe
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Distance: 0.0881
A reluctant junkyard leader must unite rival biker gangs and her cat-like allies to storm a bunker and face an enemy queen.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · alternate earth · junkyard · bunker · biker subculture · wasteland · after alien invasion · militarized future
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Distance: 0.0884
A sentient mushroom infiltrates a ruined human base to recover his stolen spore while hiding from a deadly judge.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · dystopian future · human bases · wasteland · mutated ecosystem · militarized society · cosmic radiation aftermath · ecological collapse · fortified enclaves
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Distance: 0.0905
A sheltered teen leaves his bunker after disaster and must survive a monster-haunted wasteland and a spreading virus.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground bunker · wasteland · ruined earth · desolate landscape · surface survival · near-future · earth after impact
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Distance: 0.0915
An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · radiated wasteland · underground community · ruined city · toxic environment · nuclear aftermath · futuristic dystopia
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Distance: 0.0947
A bounty hunter in a radioactive future tracks rogue androids while questioning what separates humans from machines.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · San Francisco · Mars colony · nuclear fallout · radioactive dust · off-world colonies · dystopian future · future Earth · blighted urban wasteland · post-war
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Distance: 0.0948
Nineteen YA short stories imagine what survives after collapse, from plague and war to monsters, walls, and strange new orders.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · near future · far future · space habitat · generation ship · walled society · ruined world · collapsed civilization · catastrophic future · alternate future · isolated communities
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Distance: 0.0965
