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Themes labels used: survival, curiosity, scientific reasoning, knowledge preservation, social class, inequality, adaptation, human nature, revolution, civilizational fragility, reality and perception, wonder, imagination, responsibility, sacrifice

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Cover of Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

Earth Abides

George R. Stewart · 1949

After a worldwide plague, one immune survivor watches civilization fade and a new society slowly emerge.

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Themes labels: civilization · survival · human nature · adaptation · community · knowledge loss · literacy · education · progress vs primitivism · nature vs civilization · ecology · history · technology loss · religion formation · ritual formation · social order · optimism · existentialism · human insignificance · stoicism · moral choice

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The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke · 2001

In a billion-years-later domed city, a restless outsider seeks the truth beyond a stagnant, immortal society.

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Themes labels: curiosity · fear · stagnation · change · progress · conservatism · freedom · immortality · memory · identity · human destiny · evolution · truth · history · isolation · knowledge · hope · community · technology and society · human potential · religion and belief · stagnant utopia · utopia versus freedom

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When Worlds Collide

Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer · 1933 · When Worlds Collide

A rogue planet threatens Earth, and a scientist-led team must build a spaceship and choose who may escape.

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Themes labels: survival · human nature · humanity · science and progress · duty · free will · repopulation · moral triage · civic collapse · faith · religious implication · class privilege · racism · sexism · collective action · civilization ending

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Cover of The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey

The Book of Koli

M.R. Carey · 2020 · Rampart Trilogy

A teenage outcast in a walled future village discovers secrets about old tech, power, and a deadly changed world.

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Themes labels: survival · climate change · knowledge loss · technology and power · social control · class hierarchy · coming of age · identity · truth and secrecy · human hubris · nature versus humanity · adaptation · authority and privilege · exile · community · transgression · loss of civilization · othering · hope · maturity

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Terminal World

Alastair Reynolds · 2011

A hidden posthuman doctor must flee a zone-locked tower city and uncover the unstable reality shaping his world.

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Themes labels: adaptation · survival · identity · class division · technological inequality · hidden history · limits of knowledge · reality instability · power and control · transformation · faith vs science · morality under pressure

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Cover of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

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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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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Cover of Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

Senlin Ascends

Josiah Bancroft · 2018 · The Books of Babel

A bookish honeymooner loses his wife in the Tower of Babel and must climb its bizarre levels to find her.

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Themes labels: identity · transformation · survival · human dignity · civilization critique · power and class · social inequality · morality · hope · love · self-discovery · corruption · freedom · belief vs reality · ambition · civility

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Empire of the Ants

Bernard Werber · 1999 · La Saga des Fourmis

A Paris family and a hidden ant civilization are drawn toward the same underground mystery.

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Themes labels: diversity · survival · communication · civilization · perspective · humanity · nature · cooperation · war · adaptation · knowledge · curiosity · power · evolution · environmental respect · species relativism · destruction · collective life · truth and ignorance

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Against the Fall of Night

Arthur C. Clarke · 2003

A curious young man in Earth’s last city uncovers buried truths that could shatter a stagnant immortal civilization.

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Themes labels: curiosity · exploration · stagnation · renewal · complacency · human destiny · human evolution · longevity · immortality · loss of curiosity · fear of change · truth and lies · history and memory · civilizational decline · progress vs safety · purpose of life · humanity future · technology dependence · agency · hope · optimism · meaning of civilization · isolationism · cultural difference · bridge-building

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Cover of Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson

Wolf and Iron

Gordon R. Dickson · 1990

After economic collapse, a scientist treks across a lawless America, learning survival with a wolf companion.

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Themes labels: survival · adaptation · civilizational collapse · technology loss · human nature · nature versus civilization · companionship · knowledge preservation · self-reliance · community · trust · barter economy · economic fragility · preparedness · social order

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Cover of The Last Survivors: the Complete Series by Bobby Adair

The Last Survivors: the Complete Series

Bobby Adair, T.W. Piperbrook · 2019 · The Last Survivors

Three centuries after society falls, survivors in a ruined dark age battle infection, power, and cruelty to endure.

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Themes labels: survival · civilizational decay · power · corruption · religion · politics · morality · human nature · gender oppression · hope · social commentary · adaptation · good versus evil

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