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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

Themes labels used: climate change, resource depletion, free will, state control, surveillance, class inequality, political power, humanity, love, family, ethical dilemmas, rebellion, consequences, social collapse, capitalism, time, identity, choice vs control

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Drowning Towers

George Turner · 1996

In a flooded near-future Melbourne, a family’s fall into underclass life exposes a harsh world of climate collapse and class war.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · social inequality · class divide · survival struggle · state dependency · family downward mobility

Themes labels: climate change · global warming · overpopulation · economic collapse · wealth inequality · government corruption · state power · social stratification · environmental collapse · complacency · survival · moral compromise · class prejudice · resource scarcity · automation · education · historical memory · human failure

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Rise of the Red Hand

Olivia Chadha · 2021 · The Mechanists

In a climate-ravaged South Asian future, a slum smuggler and a privileged hacker uncover a deadly conspiracy.

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Premise labels: climate collapse · class conflict · technocratic rule · underground resistance · cyborg survival · hacker ally · genetic stratification · resource scarcity · AI governance

Themes labels: climate change · classism · elitism · ableism · capitalism · activism · justice · survival · resource inequality · government oppression · moral questions · social injustice · pandemic politics · humanity vs dehumanization · technology and control

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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

Themes labels: overpopulation · population control · resource scarcity · famine · state power · authoritarianism · liberalism · religion · cyclical history · human nature · war · violence · social hypocrisy · gender norms · sexual politics · mortality · survival · propaganda · class privilege · moral decay · social commentary

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Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison · 1994

In a crowded future New York, a detective’s murder case opens into a bleak vision of scarcity, riots, and collapse.

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Premise labels: overpopulation · resource scarcity · future collapse · urban dystopia · detective investigation · environmental disaster · birth control · social collapse · survival under scarcity

Themes labels: overpopulation · birth control · resource depletion · environmental collapse · class inequality · social injustice · state incompetence · religious opposition · consumer excess · human survival · inequality of access · population ethics

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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

Themes labels: environmental collapse · ecological disaster · population control · freedom · surveillance · privacy · identity · individuality · government corruption · class inequality · social control · coming of age · rebellion · LGBTQ identity · survival · resource scarcity · human responsibility

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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

Themes labels: environmental degradation · survival · freedom · social inequality · class privilege · government control · truth and lies · hope · rebellion · dependency · resource scarcity · moral ambiguity

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The Rising Storm

Ceri A. Lowe · 2018 · Paradigm

Two teens, decades apart, confront a storm-born future and the society built from its ruins.

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Premise labels: end of the world · new society · survival community · climate catastrophe · rebuilt civilization · control state · frozen future

Themes labels: climate change · global warming · survival · power · control · rebellion · equality · social engineering · memory and history · sacrifice · building a new world · humanity · class inequality · technology and society · free will · greater good

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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

Themes labels: water scarcity · climate change · environmental collapse · resource inequality · secrecy · knowledge · tradition · stewardship · power and control · militarization · oppression · freedom · truth and lies · memory · history · responsibility · choice · survival · sacrifice · community · trust · privacy · ownership · ecological warning · moral dilemma · political repression

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Pump Six and Other Stories

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2008 · The Windup Universe

A bleak short-story collection of near-future worlds shaped by climate collapse, biotech, and resource scarcity.

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Premise labels: environmental dystopia · near-future warning tale · biotech collapse · resource scarcity · humanity under pressure

Themes labels: climate change · environmental destruction · resource scarcity · water rights · food supply · population control · immortality · bioethics · humanity · morality · greed · class inequality · corporate power · technology and society · ecological collapse · compassion · survival · dehumanization · knowledge decline · social criticism

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Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2010 · Ship Breaker

In a drowned, post-oil Gulf Coast future, a teen ship breaker finds a rich survivor and must choose salvage or rescue.

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Premise labels: ship breaking · survival labor · class divide · resource scarcity · climate collapse · lucky strike · rescue choice

Themes labels: survival · loyalty · morality · family · class inequality · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · humanity · choice and consequence · wealth disparity · child labor · ethics under pressure

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Trashlands

Alison Stine · 2021

In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.

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Premise labels: climate apocalypse · post-collapse survival · plastic economy · mother-child separation · art as resistance · community survival

Themes labels: survival · climate change · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · maternal love · art and creativity · community · humanity · class inequality · gendered violence · patriarchy · capitalism · labor exploitation · hope amid ruin · responsibility · memory · sacrifice

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The Last Emperox

John Scalzi · 2020 · The Interdependency

As the Flow collapses, an empress and her allies race to save billions while rival elites scramble to save themselves.

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Premise labels: collapsing empire · interstellar dependency · resource scarcity · elite self-preservation · civilizational crisis · power struggle · assassination attempts · political survival

Themes labels: collapse · climate analogy · class inequality · elite privilege · survival ethics · public good · self-interest · governance · corruption · short-term thinking · civilizational decline · hope amid doom · moral compromise · sacrifice · political responsibility

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