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Premise labels used: memory loss, amnesia rain, quarantine town, isolation, survival, collapse of self, locked-in community, mysterious disaster

Setting labels used: small town, isolated town, rainy town, quarantine zone, postapocalyptic setting, dystopian setting, closed community, military blockade, constant rain, technology outage

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City of Orange

David Yoon · 2022

An amnesiac survivor wakes in a ruined landscape and slowly uncovers the truth about his past and his world.

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Premise labels: amnesia · post-apocalyptic survival · memory loss · grief · identity mystery · survival journey · end of the world

Setting labels: apocalyptic landscape · post-apocalyptic world · wasteland · desert · river basin · drained channel · concrete culvert · burned-out houses · abandoned housing development

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Distance: 0.1718

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Strung

Per Jacobsen · 2021 · Strung Trilogy

A returning writer finds his hometown transformed by eerie apathy, hanging corpses, and a search for his missing son.

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Premise labels: homecoming · missing child · small-town collapse · widespread strange behavior · body-horror mystery · apocalyptic outbreak · author protagonist · family search · social contagion

Setting labels: modern day · small town · hometown · isolated cabin · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian world · town under collapse · hospital · roadside crime scene

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Distance: 0.1742

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The Warning

James Patterson · 2019

Two teens return to an evacuated town and uncover a hidden force behind the lockdown, strange behavior, and escalating danger.

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Premise labels: quarantined town · isolated community · power plant accident · return home after evacuation · off the grid · hidden takeover · AI takeover · military lockdown · animal attacks · teen protagonists · dangerous homecoming · conspiracy mystery

Setting labels: small southern town · small South Carolina town · small town America · Mount Hope · post-evacuation · military-controlled town · nuclear power plant · quarantined community · lockdown setting · post-apocalyptic setting · futuristic setting · dystopian setting · isolated town

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Distance: 0.1778

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Sunbirth

An Yu · 2025

In an isolated desert village, two sisters endure a fading sun, strange beacons, and a family mystery tied to their missing father.

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Premise labels: vanishing sun · isolated village · sisterhood · family mystery · survival · quiet apocalypse · mysterious transformation · unknowable phenomenon

Setting labels: isolated village · desert settlement · lakeside town · small town · climate-collapse setting · speculative world

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Distance: 0.1797

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Remember Me Gone

Stacy Stokes · 2022

A teen training in her family’s memory-erasing business uncovers missing time, town secrets, and a buried past.

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Premise labels: memory deletion · stolen memories · family secret · small-town secret · hidden history · unreliable memory · forbidden truth · investigation · buried past · ethical dilemma

Setting labels: small town · Texas · desert town · rural setting · isolated community · mine town · contemporary setting · atmospheric setting · southern setting · possible dystopian undertones

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Distance: 0.1817

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Reverence

Raena Rood · 2022 · Reverence

A volunteer advocate in a sealed, resource-starved city is pulled beyond the wall and into a dangerous truth.

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Premise labels: Pandemic aftermath · Walled city · Resource scarcity · Population control · Euthanasia system · Voluntary sacrifice · Secret truth · Forbidden outside world · Love under pressure · Dystopian rebellion

Setting labels: Post apocalyptic · Walled city · Locked-down city · Overcrowded city · Wasteland outside · Pandemic world · Near future · Dystopian society · Isolated enclave

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Distance: 0.1867

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Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

Umar Turaki · 2022

A quarantined village’s children, spared by a color-draining plague, struggle to survive, reunite, and find hope.

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Premise labels: mysterious plague · quarantine · survival · found family · young survivors · sibling journey · adult immunity · isolated community · search for cure

Setting labels: small village · isolated town · quarantine zone · barricaded community · Africa · Nigeria · fictional village · post-apocalyptic world

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Distance: 0.1873

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The Bane

Keary Taylor · 2013 · The Eden Trilogy

A memory-lost teen in a last human colony must survive a robot plague while choosing between two very different boys.

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Premise labels: human survival · last colony · robot infection · cybernetic plague · love triangle · hidden identity · memory loss · end of humanity · secret past

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · small colony · safe haven · countryside refuge · ruined cities · wilderness survival · human extinction crisis

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Distance: 0.1879

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The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta · 2011

After a mass disappearance upends a suburban town, the survivors struggle with grief, cults, and unfinished lives.

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Premise labels: mass disappearance · left behind · grief aftermath · post-rapture · survivor crisis · community trauma · family fracture · meaning-making

Setting labels: small town · suburban setting · contemporary America · post-disaster world · post-rapture world · apocalyptic aftermath · fictional town · worldwide event

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Distance: 0.1891

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Fight for Power

Eric Walters · 2015 · The Rule of Three

After a global blackout, Adam’s fortified neighborhood faces new threats from outside and inside the walls.

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Premise labels: global blackout · power outage · survival community · fortified neighborhood · siege threat · internal betrayal · resource scarcity · post-disaster society

Setting labels: suburban neighborhood · fortified enclave · post-apocalyptic world · blackout aftermath · small community · outside the walls · tent town · wasteland

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Distance: 0.1894

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Edge of Anarchy

Kyla Stone · 2020 · Edge of Collapse

In a winter-ravaged EMP apocalypse, survivors face militia rule, reunions, and deadly choices as home finally comes into reach.

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Premise labels: power grid collapse · societal collapse · family survival · homecoming · kidnapped survivor · post-collapse town conflict · militia takeover · resource scarcity · winter survival · protect loved ones

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · EMP aftermath · winter setting · snowstorm · rural Michigan · small-town · homefront · collapsed society · isolated community

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Distance: 0.1899

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Fear

Michael Grant · 2012 · Gone

In a domed post-apocalyptic town, the surviving kids face spreading darkness, new fears, and mounting betrayals.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · disappearing adults · isolated community · domed confinement · fear as threat · siege · psychological threat · apocalyptic world

Setting labels: isolated town · domed world · post-apocalyptic settlement · small community · darkened environment · outside world · wilderness · lake settlement · Perdido Beach · FAYZ

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Distance: 0.1901

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