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Premise labels used: sister search, survival story, climate dystopia, eco-city, memory loss, future shock

Setting labels used: abandoned island, eco-city, floating city, near future, post-apocalyptic, climate-ravaged world, ocean setting, dystopian future, science-fictional future

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Yume Kitasei · 2025

In a flooded near-future Earth, two sisters sail after their missing third sister and uncover a corporate secret.

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Premise labels: missing sister · sister journey · climate collapse · corporate conspiracy · ecological salvation · sea voyage · food crisis · near-future survival

Setting labels: near future · oceanic setting · coastal collapse · flooded world · post-climate-collapse · dying Earth · pirate-controlled waters · corporate-controlled world · unnamed locations · global famine aftermath

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Distance: 0.1429

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The Neptune Project

Polly Holyoke · 2013 · The Neptune Project

A misfit girl learns she was engineered to live underwater and must cross a dangerous ocean to reach safety.

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Premise labels: genetically altered children · underwater survival · ocean colonization · dystopian escape · government pursuit · telepathy · dolphin companionship · coming-of-age

Setting labels: futuristic Earth · undersea colony · ocean world · dystopian California · flooded coast · post-climate-change · authoritarian future · underwater setting

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Distance: 0.1593

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The Sandcastle Empire

Kayla Olson · 2017

A desperate teen flees a brutal regime to a supposedly safe island, only to find the refuge hides new dangers and secrets.

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Premise labels: survival quest · escape narrative · island mystery · safe haven · resistance against regime · resource scarcity · post-collapse society · fight for freedom

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · war zone · mysterious island · jungle setting · deserted island · ocean setting · work camp · labor camp · futuristic world

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Distance: 0.1609

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The Stone Gods

Jeanette Winterson · 2007

A fractured sci-fi love story links future collapse, Easter Island, and another age to ask whether humanity can break its cycle.

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Premise labels: environmental collapse · human self-destruction · interplanetary survival · second chance · time-spanning love story · cyclical history · artificial intelligence · robot romance · colonization mission · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · space colony · interplanetary travel · alternate timeline · Easter Island · 18th century · near future · dystopian future · postwar society · science fictional world

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Distance: 0.1651

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Silent Jenny

Mathieu Bablet · 2025

In a climate-ravaged future, Jenny searches for bee DNA aboard a roaming community to imagine a livable tomorrow.

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Premise labels: pollinator collapse · bee DNA quest · climate catastrophe · survival community · restoration quest · search for lost world

Setting labels: far future · post-apocalyptic Earth · desertified world · mobile settlements · motorized village · monadic society · eco-dystopia · climate-ravaged world

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Distance: 0.1667

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Hujan

Tere Liye · 2016

In a futuristic, disaster-scarred world, a young woman seeks to erase painful memories tied to love and loss.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · post-disaster survival · star-crossed lovers · friendship bond · environmental collapse · future technology · lost memories

Setting labels: near future · 2040s · 2050 · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic · unnamed locations · tropical region · scientific future · disaster aftermath

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Distance: 0.1684

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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.

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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

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Distance: 0.1694

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Salt

Liz Shipton · 2023 · Thalassic

In a flooded future, a reckless young sailor flees danger with her teacher, chasing secrets, survival, and a slow-burn spark.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · waterworld · pirate adventure · sailing journey · quest for answers · underground organization · fleeing danger · flooded future · pandemic aftermath · climate disaster · found family · forbidden attraction

Setting labels: future earth · post-pandemic · post-apocalyptic · flooded world · ocean setting · island setting · coastal cities · boat travel · nautical setting · isolated communities · waterworld · future tech · biotech · corporate world · black market · pirate haven · saline environment

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Distance: 0.1722

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The First City

Joe Hart · 2017 · The Dominion Trilogy

In a ravaged future where women are scarce, Zoey races to uncover the truth before a fight for humanity destroys her.

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Premise labels: female scarcity · repopulation crisis · survival quest · chosen one · human extinction · search for answers · last city · protective heroine

Setting labels: dystopian world · post-apocalyptic world · last American city · Seattle · wastelands · future America · depopulated society

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Distance: 0.1728

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E

Kate Wrath · 2014 · E

An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.

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Premise labels: memory loss · erasure · survival struggle · slavery threat · dystopian order · found family · imminent war

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier

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Distance: 0.1730

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The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

Brian Evenson · 2021

A 22-story horror collection of bleak, weird futures where bodies, identities, and ecosystems unravel.

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Premise labels: short story collection · post-apocalyptic dread · ecological horror · psychological horror · survival · self-sacrifice · human extinction · body horror · weird fiction

Setting labels: post-Anthropocene · dystopian future · climate apocalypse · ruined Earth · poisonous air · uninhabitable environment · alien world · speculative reality · ghostly reality · liminal spaces

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Distance: 0.1750

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The Bane

Keary Taylor · 2013 · The Eden Trilogy

A memory-lost teen in a last human colony must survive a robot plague while choosing between two very different boys.

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Premise labels: human survival · last colony · robot infection · cybernetic plague · love triangle · hidden identity · memory loss · end of humanity · secret past

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · small colony · safe haven · countryside refuge · ruined cities · wilderness survival · human extinction crisis

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Distance: 0.1781

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