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Premise labels used: lost spore, body transformation, nonhuman protagonist, human infiltration, survival quest, mutated world, species boundary, search mission

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic world, dystopian future, mutated wildlife, military base, human enclave, wasteland, end-times, science-fictional world

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Little Mushroom: Judgment Day

Yi Shi Si Zhou · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a ruined human base to recover his stolen spore while hiding from a deadly judge.

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Premise labels: sentient protagonist · identity concealment · stolen heirloom · search quest · nonhuman protagonist · post-collapse survival · mutant world · human infiltration

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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Little Mushroom: Revelations

Yi Shi Si Zhou, 一十四洲 · 2022 · Little Mushroom (Novel)

A sentient mushroom infiltrates a human base to recover his spore, only to face a wary judge and an unraveling apocalypse.

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Premise labels: lost spore · identity concealment · xenogenic infiltration · human base · apocalypse survival · forbidden attraction · final trial

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · decaying universe · human base · Northern Base · walled cities · underground cities · desolate land · highly mutated world · scientific apocalypse · dystopian future

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 2012 · Pure

In a nuclear-ravaged world split between Dome-dwellers and mutated survivors, two teens risk everything to find truth.

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Premise labels: nuclear aftermath · split society · survival quest · escape from dome · lost mother search · apocalyptic mutation · controlled enclave · outside world survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · nuclear holocaust aftermath · domed enclave · wasteland · ash-covered world · controlled society · ruined Earth · climate-controlled dome

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Kings of Carrion

Keri Lake · 2019 · Juniper Unraveling

In a ruined world, survivors race back into a sealed nightmare to find a cure, save loved ones, and survive the cost.

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Premise labels: survival · cure quest · rescue mission · sealed facility · mutated monsters · infected world · forced sacrifice · protected survivors · experimental fallout · love amid catastrophe

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · sealed facility · underground tunnels · desert wasteland · dystopian landscape · infected world · mutated underground

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Distance: 0.1581

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Maximum Ride Forever

James Patterson · 2015 · Maximum Ride

A genetically engineered teen and her flock race to survive a shattered Earth and uncover who caused the apocalypse.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · final mission · answers quest · world-ending aftermath · save the world · genetic experiment survivors

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · Earth · dystopian future · global disaster zone · lab-created fictional reality

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Distance: 0.1590

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BLAME! Vol. 1

Tsutomu Nihei · 2016 · BLAME!

A silent wanderer crosses a vast vertical megastructure searching for a gene that may restore humanity’s link to the Net.

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Premise labels: search quest · missing gene · vertical megacity · survival journey · post-human world · lost humanity · mission-driven protagonist

Setting labels: future Earth · vertical city · megacity · megastructure · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · industrial wasteland · post-human setting · cybernetic world

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Red Gambit

Luke R. Mitchell · 2017 · The Harvesters

A snarky mercenary and an energy-wielding arcanist team up in alien-ravaged Earth to recover what they’ve lost.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · alien invasion aftermath · stolen equipment · missing sibling · reluctant alliance · save the world · power struggle

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · nuclear wasteland · alien-occupied world · dystopian future · apocalyptic aftermath

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Immobility

Brian Evenson · 2012

An amnesiac paraplegic is sent across a ruined wasteland on a mysterious mission that may reveal what he truly is.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · cryogenic wake-up · paraplegic protagonist · wasteland quest · mysterious mission · survival task · retrieval mission · post-collapse survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · radiated wasteland · underground community · ruined city · toxic environment · nuclear aftermath · futuristic dystopia

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Electro

Javier Ruescas, Manu Carbajo · 2015 · Saga Electro

A teen wakes to a ruined future world, then follows a mystery diary and a fugitive companion to uncover what happened.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · lost world · mystery diary · memory gap · future shock · journey for answers · experimental humans · energy-dependent body · guided quest

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · future Earth · single day time jump · ruined city · small-town setting · North America · war aftermath · technological future

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Dead Astronauts

Jeff Vandermeer · 2019 · Borne

In a biotech-ravaged multiverse, three uncanny travelers battle a corporation across collapsing realities.

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Premise labels: corporate biotech · post-apocalyptic survival · alternate realities · multiverse mission · end-of-world struggle · nonhuman protagonists · environmental collapse · biotech apocalypse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · ravaged world · dystopian city · multiverse · alternate timelines · biotech-altered world · ruined Earth · posthuman setting

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Ghosts

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2017 · Hell Divers

A surface mission in a ruined future Earth uncovers buried truths, mounting unrest, and a dangerous leader’s secrets.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · airship society · surface scavenging · missing signal · hidden secrets · betrayal · humanity survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · flying airship · surface wasteland · radiated wasteland · toxic planet · future Earth · destroyed world · closed society

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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: 0.1654

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