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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for World Departed.
Setting labels used: West Coast, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, California, Eugene, zombie apocalypse, post-collapse world, same universe
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
A girl and her scientist guardian cross a sun-scorched future, using monarch butterflies to seek a cure for humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · near future · western United States · Pacific Coast · California · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · Mexico · underground communities · abandoned cities · nature-reclaimed landscape · day/night survival world · real-world locations · coordinate-based setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1433
After a global tech collapse, survivors in the Pacific Northwest rebuild through survival skills, clans, and new power struggles.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Idaho · contemporary world · post-apocalyptic world · technologically regressed world · medieval-like society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1482
A pilot-father races through a collapsed world to save his family and reach his girlfriend before night-hunting infected overrun everything.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Pacific Northwest · Kuwait · military bases · nighttime danger · global collapse
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1531
After a deadly pandemic, an immune survivor leads a fragile group toward safety while preppers, danger, and loss close in.
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Setting labels: Pacific Northwest · Washington state · Seattle · cabin in the woods · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · depopulated world · collapsed civilization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1596
After a grid failure and flu collapse society, two lovers on opposite coasts struggle toward reunion and renewal.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · near future · United States · East Coast · West Coast · California · New York · San Francisco · cross-country · railroad line · off-grid · pandemic aftermath · collapsed infrastructure · radio age
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1615
Years after technology fails worldwide, rival clans in Oregon face a looming war as new allies arrive from across the sea.
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Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · alternate history · Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Willamette Valley · England · neo-feudal · medievalized future · global aftermath · tribal communities
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1650
Two best friends survive a flu-apocalypse and cross a shattered country to find each other as new powers emerge.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · pandemic aftermath · United States · west coast · east coast · Colorado · Seattle · Salem · survivalist wilderness · collapsed infrastructure · world-ending plague
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Distance: 0.1656
After a comet apocalypse, bunker survivors must unite rival cohorts before fear, power struggles, and a new threat destroy them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · cryosleep · bunkers · wilderness travel · Oregon · Nevada · California · Idaho · fresh world · far-future aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1673
A college student shelters with a prepper cousin as a deadly flu collapses society, and sparks with a biker neighbor grow fast.
Why this is here
Setting labels: pandemic setting · post collapse · apocalyptic world · compound · bunker · Pacific Northwest · Oregon · Portland · college campus · dorm
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1677
After a meteor-scarred drought ends, an estranged detective and biologist uncover an alien fungal outbreak tied to a child’s disappearance.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Seattle · Pacific Northwest · Puget Sound · rainforest · woods · forest · near future · post-apocalyptic world · shared universe · meteor-shifted ecology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1679
A lone survivor uses a dead postman’s uniform to survive, and accidentally sparks hope of rebuilding civilization.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · post-nuclear war · collapsed society · wilderness travel · small settlements · Oregon · Pacific Northwest · dystopian future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1693
During a Portland zombie outbreak, a medicated student and her protective neighbor race for safety while hiding dangerous secrets.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Portland, Oregon · university campus · apartment building · urban outbreak · Pacific Northwest · post-apocalyptic city · zombie apocalypse · quarantine zone · real-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1700
