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Premise labels used: post-apocalyptic seafaring, pirate crew, climate collapse, chosen family, enemies and alliances, dangerous voyage, political intrigue, survival quest, self-discovery, romantic tension

Setting labels used: 26th century, future Earth, ocean world, flooded Earth, water stations, floating stations, uninhabitable land, underwater society, dystopian future, post-climate-change

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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: 0.1497

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Compass Rose

Anna Burke · 2018 · Compass Rose

A gifted navigator is sent undercover into pirate waters, where survival, politics, and sapphic tension collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: unnatural navigator · secret mission · undercover assignment · pirate infiltration · military escort · survival at sea · forced proximity · forbidden attraction · climate collapse · power struggle

Setting labels: flooded earth · future earth · 26th century · post-climate-change · ocean world · submersibles · floating stations · archipelago society · pirate territory · underwater mines

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Distance: 0.1517

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Ark

Stephen Baxter · 2009 · Flood

As Earth drowns, a selected crew undertakes a desperate starship mission to preserve humanity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: dying Earth · human survival · starship mission · last-chance evacuation · new world search · generation ship · post-collapse escape

Setting labels: near-future Earth · flooded world · space travel · long-duration voyage · planetary colonization · dystopian future · apocalyptic future · beyond Earth

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Distance: 0.1766

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The Fog Diver

Joel N. Ross · 2015 · The Fog Diver

A teen salvage diver and his orphan crew race through a fog-choked future to save their guardian and outrun a tyrant.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · salvage crew · deadly fog · special ability · adopted family · quest for cure · escape pursuit · resource scarcity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · mountaintop settlements · floating slums · airships · junkyards · ruined Earth · nanotech world · dying Earth

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Distance: 0.1769

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The Wake

Scott Snyder · 2014 · The Wake

A marine biologist is pulled into a deep-sea mystery that erupts into monster horror, then a flooded future quest.

Why this is here

Premise labels: scientific investigation · secret facility · deep sea threat · monster encounter · future survivor · signal hunt · post-disaster world · humanity vs creatures · quest narrative · two-timeline story

Setting labels: Arctic Circle · underwater base · deep ocean · post-apocalyptic future · flooded world · coastal inundation · sea-level rise · dystopian future · illegal drilling rig · highly aquatic world

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Distance: 0.1816

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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: 0.1836

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Dark Life

Kat Falls · 2010 · Dark Life

In a flooded future, an ocean-born boy and a topside girl race to save an underwater settlement from outlaws and secrets.

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Premise labels: undersea settlement · post-apocalyptic frontier · resource scarcity · outlaws threaten settlement · missing sibling quest · secret powers · survival colony · colonization frontier

Setting labels: underwater · post-apocalyptic future · future America · ocean frontier · subsea colony · ocean floor · crowded topside · overpopulated world · colonized ocean

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Distance: 0.1857

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After the Flood

Kassandra Montag · 2019

In a flooded future, a mother risks everything on a sea voyage to rescue the daughter taken from her years ago.

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Premise labels: climate apocalypse · flood survival · child rescue quest · mother search · survival journey · post-collapse world · resource scarcity · lawless world

Setting labels: flooded Earth · post-apocalyptic future · near future · mountaintop settlements · boat living · open water · lawless frontier · Greenland · Nebraska · Arctic Circle · climate-changed world

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Distance: 0.1863

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Ultra 85

Logic · 2024

In a dying-future space society, two pilots seek a promised world and uncover a truth that could reshape it.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic space station · mission quest · restricted paradise · AI future · search for truth · chosen elite

Setting labels: space station · space travel · future Earth · post-apocalyptic future · restricted world · dystopian future · futuristic society

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Distance: 0.1874

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Into the Sunken City

Dinesh Thiru · 2024

In a rain-drowned future, a grieving teen diver joins a risky treasure heist to save her sister and their future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: flooded world · sunken city · treasure hunt · heist · deep-sea dive · sibling survival · last chance job · dangerous salvage · pirate adventure · climate disaster

Setting labels: flooded Earth · underwater cities · constant rain · post-climate-change · future setting · American Southwest · Arizona · Las Vegas · coastal settlement · drowned world · archipelago world · undersea ruins

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Distance: 0.1889

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Shade's Children

Garth Nix · 1997 · Shade's Children

In a ruined future where children vanish at fourteen, escaped teens join a mysterious AI-led resistance.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · teen rebellion · harvested children · AI mentor · resistance against overlords · escape from captivity · fight for survival

Setting labels: futuristic city · urban wasteland · post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate Earth · dystopian future · near future · subterranean refuge

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Distance: 0.1913

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The Maze Cutter

James Dashner · 2022 · The Maze Cutter

Decades after the original apocalypse, island-raised descendants leave safety and confront evolved threats, rival factions, and secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · descendant cast · island community · return to mainland · mysterious ship · evolved plague · faction conflict · who to trust · cure quest · future humanity

Setting labels: post apocalypse · post-post-apocalyptic · island settlement · mainland · ruins · scientific dystopia · cultic society · future world · Flare-affected world

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Distance: 0.1923

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