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Premise labels used: resource scarcity, climate collapse, enforced hibernation, population control, survival regime, hidden conspiracy, social collapse, class divide, revolutionary resistance

Setting labels used: near future, futuristic Earth, futuristic Britain, climate-ravaged world, flooded coastlines, arid landscape, hibernating city, post-collapse society, surveillance state, controlled district

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The Wanting Seed

Anthony Burgess · 1962

In an overpopulated near future, one marriage is caught in a collapsing system of birth controls, scarcity, and social upheaval.

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Premise labels: overpopulation · population control · anti-natal policy · state control · resource scarcity · social collapse · cannibalism · forced homosexuality · perpetual war · cyclical history

Setting labels: near future · overpopulated world · dystopian society · skyscraper world · future London · Britain · post-collapse society · authoritarian state · wartime society · apocalyptic future

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Distance: 0.1253

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Flow

Clare Littlemore · 2017 · Flow

A flood-ravaged teen is reassigned inside a rigid survival society and uncovers dangerous secrets about how it really works.

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Premise labels: survival · hidden truth · authoritarian society · resource scarcity · social hierarchy · coming of age · rebellion · secretive government · promotion system · separation by roles

Setting labels: flooded future · post-apocalyptic world · walled enclave · strict society · resource-scarce settlement · climate disaster · isolated community · sector-based society · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1545

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There Will Be Dragons

John Ringo · 2006 · The Council Wars

When a hyper-advanced utopia collapses overnight, one smith in a surviving village becomes key to rebuilding and defending civilization.

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Premise labels: utopia collapse · civilization fall · survival after collapse · rebuilding society · resource scarcity · tech failure · post-singularity collapse · cultural regression · power struggle · civil war

Setting labels: far future · post-technological · preindustrial world · collapsed civilization · utopian future · Earth · small village · wilderness · medievalized future

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Distance: 0.1550

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The Last Day

Andrew Hunter Murray · 2020

In a near-future Britain, a scientist is dragged into a government secret after Earth’s rotation stops and chaos spreads.

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Premise labels: stopped rotation · planetary catastrophe · habitable zone · resource scarcity · authoritarian state · government secret · scientist heroine · deathbed clue · race for truth · near-future collapse

Setting labels: 2059 · near future · post-apocalyptic · dystopian Britain · North Atlantic · oil rig · London · Oxford · perpetual daylight · perpetual darkness · habitable zone · isolated island state · authoritarian Britain · global catastrophe · twilight belt · post-stop world

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Distance: 0.1565

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One

Eve Smith · 2023

In a climate-ravaged UK, a loyal government enforcer discovers her forbidden sibling is her own.

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Premise labels: one-child policy · population control · climate disaster · totalitarian regime · state surveillance · forbidden sibling · government enforcer · reproductive control

Setting labels: near future · future UK · climate-ravaged Britain · dystopian future · totalitarian state · technologically monitored society · post-climate disaster world

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Distance: 0.1567

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Goliath

Tochi Onyebuchi · 2022

In a near-future US emptied by off-world flight, those left behind struggle to survive as the past comes back to claim Earth.

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Premise labels: left behind · space colonies · collapsing civilization · survival under scarcity · off-world elites · gentrified Earth · futures of inequality · systemic oppression · community rebuilding · near-future decline

Setting labels: near future · 2050s · United States · New Haven, Connecticut · Earth · space colonies · post-apocalyptic · post-climate apocalypse · radioactive Earth · irradiated land · crumbling cities · urban ruins · domed habitats · off-world colonies · American future

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Distance: 0.1592

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Children of Eden

Joey Graceffa, Laura L. Sullivan · 2016 · Children of Eden

In a controlled post-apocalyptic city, an illegal second-born girl escapes hiding and gets pulled into rebellion and secrets.

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Premise labels: illegal child · one-child policy · hidden identity · survival · rebellion against system · post-collapse world · sealed city · artificial environment · resource scarcity · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · artificial city · controlled society · future world · inside/outside divide · futuristic dystopia · urban circles

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Distance: 0.1608

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The Sheep Look Up

John Brunner · 1972 · Club of Rome Quartet

A fragmented near-future dystopia where pollution, corruption, and disease push America toward ecological collapse.

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Premise labels: environmental collapse · ecological disaster · near future dystopia · polluted world · corporate greed · state failure

Setting labels: near future · future United States · global environmental crisis · urban dystopia · post-apocalyptic atmosphere · polluted earth

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Distance: 0.1616

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Memory of Water

Emmi Itäranta · 2014

In a water-starved future, a tea apprentice inherits a dangerous secret that could save her village or doom her.

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Premise labels: water scarcity · resource control · tea master · hidden spring · secret knowledge · military rule · climate collapse · survival choice · coming of age

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic future · climate-changed world · Scandinavia · Finland · border province · occupied territory · militarized state · desertified landscape · future Europe

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Distance: 0.1629

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Last Light

Alex Scarrow · 2007 · Last Light

When global oil supplies are severed, one family races through collapsing Britain and Iraq to survive and reunite.

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Premise labels: oil supply cutoff · civilizational collapse · family reunion · survival crisis · global breakdown · conspiracy behind disaster · resource dependency

Setting labels: Britain · London · Manchester · Iraq · Middle East · near future · post-apocalyptic · contemporary world · civilizational collapse · oil-dependent society

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Distance: 0.1641

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Walkaway

Cory Doctorow · 2017 · Walkaway

In a climate-scarred near future, defectors build a post-scarcity society, then discover a power that could upend the world.

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Premise labels: post-scarcity · walk away · anti-capitalist future · class conflict · wealth inequality · community building · defection from society · technological abundance · immortality · revolution

Setting labels: near future · climate damaged Earth · post-collapse · abandoned places · urban ruins · industrial flight · North America · sacrifice zones · default society · off-grid communities

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Distance: 0.1652

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Breathe

Sarah Crossan · 2012 · Breathe

In a treeless future where oxygen is bought and rationed, three teens from different classes cross paths and ignite change.

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Premise labels: oxygen scarcity · air rationing · privatized air · class divide · environmental collapse · resistance movement · controlled society · escape from dome

Setting labels: future world · domed city · glass domes · outlands · wasteland · treeless world · post-catastrophe world · controlled society

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Distance: 0.1653

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