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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for A Meeting at Corvallis.
Themes labels used: survival, leadership, power struggle, civilization rebuilding, political order, religion and society, faith and legitimacy, community defense, scarcity, moral ambiguity, war ethics, self-sufficiency
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A wounded soldier must win survivors' trust, defend their camp, and keep a rebuild mission alive in an infected wasteland.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · civilizational collapse · rebuilding · trust · duty · leadership · sacrifice · human savagery · order versus chaos · morality under pressure · group cooperation · scarcity
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0833
After a world-ending virus, rival survivor factions clash while former soldiers and civilians try to build order.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · rebuilding society · freedom · law and order · anti-extremism · collective action · power abuse · human nature · civilizational collapse · morality under pressure · ideological conflict · hope · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0850
A soldier-turned-leader fights to hold a growing refuge together as the infected evolve and human rivals close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · leadership · community building · betrayal · human conflict · duty · honor · resource politics · civilization collapse · adaptation · science of infection · hope vs despair
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0855
A prepared family escapes an airborne zombie outbreak by sea, then works to rescue survivors and build refuge.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · preparedness · leadership · community building · human resilience · civilizational collapse · rebuilding · duty · resource management · trust and paranoia · morality under pressure · hope · willingness to fight
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0857
Five years after an EMP collapse, a reluctant leader is pulled into a hidden power struggle that could doom what remains.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · leadership · moral dilemma · ethics of violence · ends justify means · government corruption · power and privilege · civilizational fragility · resource scarcity · community resilience · political collapse · consequences of war · pandemic weaponization · preparedness · normalcy bias · sacrifice · loyalty · faith and morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0866
A Navy destroyer’s captain leads the last survivors of nuclear war through a ruined world toward uncertain refuge.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · leadership · command responsibility · morality · repopulation · gender politics · isolation · civilization collapse · hope · human nature · duty · mutually assured destruction · survivorship · community building · religion · justice
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0875
A damaged deep-space colony hub strains under crisis, forcing rival leaders to battle for survival before rebellion erupts.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · leadership · scarcity · responsibility · political conflict · order versus chaos · idealism versus reality · prejudice · colonialism · community breakdown · moral compromise
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0902
In a plague-ravaged future, survivors race to build a new colony around an alien space elevator as factions close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · leadership · power · control · social order · community building · moral ambiguity · human nature · trust · fear · mystery · exploration · colonial dependence · religion and fanaticism · end times
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0946
A survivor-led town in a zombie apocalypse faces a massive herd, new allies, and a dangerously devout group.
Why this is here
Themes labels: leadership · trust · survival · community rebuilding · religion and fanaticism · trauma · legacy · human monstrosity · hope versus corruption · post-apocalyptic morality
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0949
A North Carolina town rebuilding after an EMP faces a new government draft and a fight over who controls recovery.
Why this is here
Themes labels: self-reliance · survivalism · civil liberties · government legitimacy · morality under pressure · community resilience · order versus chaos · preparedness · decentralization · civic duty · patriotism · leadership · ethics in crisis · resource dependence · reconstruction
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0968
After nuclear war devastates the U.S., a small Florida town must improvise survival, order, and hope from ruin.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · community · resilience · civilization fragility · preparedness · resourcefulness · law and order · human nature · hope · anti-war · cold war fear · social breakdown · self-reliance · mutual aid · class survival
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0971
A lone survivor joins a museum refuge and faces both the undead and the darker horrors of surviving humans.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · survival ethics · good and evil · faith · religion · community · civilization rebuilding · human nature · violence · hope · moral ambiguity · isolation · suffering · theodicy · social collapse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0971
