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

Themes labels used: climate change, environmentalism, humanity, sisterhood, family bonds, memory, identity, choice, consequence, privilege, power, technology ethics, survival, hope, free will, misanthropy

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Saltcrop

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

Themes labels: sisterhood · family dynamics · ecological disaster · climate change · corporate greed · capitalism · trust · identity · grief · resilience · survival · responsibility · scientific ethics · food insecurity · preservation versus control · generational trauma · late-stage capitalism · environmental responsibility · solidarity · letting go

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The Thinning

Inga Simpson · 2024

In near-future Australia, a teen and an uncertain ally race toward a solar eclipse amid climate collapse and social control.

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Premise labels: near future collapse · climate dystopia · environmental degradation · eclipse quest · off-grid survival · unlikely partnership · fugitive journey · restore nature · human evolution · reproductive control

Themes labels: climate change · extinction · biodiversity loss · environmental destruction · human impact · what it means to be human · identity · responsibility · survival · hope · reproductive autonomy · bodily autonomy · corporate greed · fascism · technology overreach · science and ethics · activism · connection to nature · First Nations sovereignty · indigenous knowledge · human diversity · future consequences

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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

Themes labels: human survival · hope · sacrifice · freedom · control · women's oppression · reproductive rights · family · moral dilemma · identity · resilience · change · good and evil · desperation · responsibility

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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

Themes labels: environmental degradation · climate change · survival · free will · identity · belonging · leadership · trust · courage · family ties · redemption · ethical science · genetic engineering · oppression · resilience · adaptation · community · sacrifice · protecting the future

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Endling

Jasmin Schreiber · 2023

In a near-future dystopia, a reclusive biologist and her family launch a roadtrip to find a missing friend.

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Premise labels: near-future collapse · female roadtrip · missing person search · endling · family reunion · eco-dystopia · feminist resistance · biological inquiry

Themes labels: climate change · biodiversity loss · species extinction · feminism · patriarchy · women's rights · reproductive rights · pandemics · alcoholism · grief · loss · trauma · mental health · resistance · ecological grief · family · hope · activism · right-wing politics · totalitarianism · social decline

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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler · 2020 · Earthseed (Graphic Novel adaptations)

In a collapsing near-future America, a teenage girl journals her way toward survival, faith, and a new community.

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Premise labels: survival story · dystopian collapse · found religion · road journey · community building · coming of age · apocalyptic future

Themes labels: climate change · resource scarcity · social collapse · community · faith · religion · change · survival · hope · adaptation · capitalism · inequality · violence · resilience · identity · human destiny · social justice · racial inequality · gender · class

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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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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

Themes labels: climate change · survival · motherhood · parenting · nature · environmentalism · overpopulation · human nature · identity · community · individualism · leadership · scarcity · civilization · belonging · self-preservation

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Adrift: The Truth Won't Always Set You Free

Lisa Brideau · 2023

A woman wakes with no memory on a sailboat and must choose between uncovering her past and staying alive in a climate-strained future.

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Premise labels: amnesia · hidden identity · memory loss · identity mystery · climate crisis · climate refugees · near-future disaster · survival quest

Themes labels: identity · selfhood · memory · climate change · environmental collapse · migration · refugees · survival · choice · reinvention · trust · human connection · loss · regret · morality · belonging · truth vs safety

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Floodland

Marcus Sedgwick · 2001

In a flooded future Britain, a ten-year-old girl sets out by boat to find her parents and survive what remains.

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Premise labels: global warming disaster · survival quest · search for parents · stranded child · journey by boat · resource scarcity · post-collapse society

Themes labels: climate change · global warming · environmental warning · survival · human nature · civilization collapse · community · family · hope · moral choice · resource scarcity · humanity · fear of the future · responsibility · sanity under pressure

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Pump Six and Other Stories

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2008 · The Windup Universe

A bleak short-story collection of near-future worlds shaped by climate collapse, biotech, and resource scarcity.

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Premise labels: environmental dystopia · near-future warning tale · biotech collapse · resource scarcity · humanity under pressure

Themes labels: climate change · environmental destruction · resource scarcity · water rights · food supply · population control · immortality · bioethics · humanity · morality · greed · class inequality · corporate power · technology and society · ecological collapse · compassion · survival · dehumanization · knowledge decline · social criticism

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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.

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

Themes labels: ecology · climate change · environmental responsibility · nature preservation · feminism · gender inequality · survival · truth and ignorance · hope · awakening · human impact · interdependence · values and priorities

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