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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for Kings of a Dead World.
Premise labels used: resource scarcity, climate collapse, enforced hibernation, population control, survival regime, hidden conspiracy, social collapse, class divide, revolutionary resistance
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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
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Distance: 0.1084
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
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Distance: 0.1214
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
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Distance: 0.1238
A prepper group rides out a U.S. collapse from a fortified Idaho retreat, mixing survival tactics with political conflict.
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Premise labels: economic collapse · societal collapse · survivalism · bug-out · fortified retreat · constitutional restoration · post-collapse recovery
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Distance: 0.1318
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
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Distance: 0.1346
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
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Distance: 0.1350
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
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Distance: 0.1368
Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.
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Premise labels: climate collapse · ecological collapse · community survival · adaptation · resilience · resource scarcity · knowledge preservation · art under pressure · living architecture · intergenerational survival · local resilience · post-apocalypse
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Distance: 0.1397
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
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Distance: 0.1442
As global drought turns water into a scarce currency, a detached doctor is swept into society’s collapse and survival scramble.
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Premise labels: global drought · water scarcity · climate catastrophe · civilization collapse · survival struggle · exodus to coast · resource hoarding · end times
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Distance: 0.1456
After a solar storm wipes out modern power, an Amish farmer’s diary tracks faith, survival, and pressure from desperate outsiders.
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Premise labels: civilizational collapse · survival · community resilience · nonviolence under pressure · faith under crisis · outsider pressure · resource scarcity · social breakdown
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Distance: 0.1460
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
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Distance: 0.1464
