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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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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.

Why this is here

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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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.

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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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Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany · 2014 · Dhalgren

An amnesiac poet wanders a ruined city where reality, desire, and identity keep shifting beneath his feet.

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Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · mystery city · post-catastrophe · isolated city · urban breakdown · survival community · identity search · artistic awakening · sexual liberation · power vacuum · anarchic society · reality distortion

Setting labels: Midwestern city · post-apocalyptic city · isolated urban zone · ruined metropolis · urban wasteland · American city · countercultural enclave · lawless city · shifting cityscape · nonlinear time · altered reality · two moons · smoke-filled city · post-disaster setting

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Distance: 0.1903

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The Taking

Dean Koontz · 2005

A married couple in a small California town faces a world-spanning catastrophe, eerie rain, and a hidden threat.

Why this is here

Premise labels: apocalyptic invasion · survival mission · small-town catastrophe · alien takeover · terraforming · global disaster · community under siege · end-times mystery · children rescue · unknown threat

Setting labels: small California town · mountain town · isolated community · global catastrophe · rain-soaked setting · fog-shrouded setting · nighttime setting · claustrophobic setting · apocalyptic Earth · churches and taverns

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No Dawn Without Darkness

Dayna Lorentz · 2014 · No Safety in Numbers

Trapped in a darkened mall after a deadly outbreak, a group of teens must survive chaos and find a way out.

Why this is here

Premise labels: quarantined teens · mall lockdown · viral outbreak · survival under confinement · resource scarcity · social collapse · escape attempt · post-quarantine aftermath

Setting labels: shopping mall · quarantine zone · locked-in setting · post-apocalyptic setting · darkness · sealed windows · power outage · teen-controlled environment · public crisis · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1923

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The Last Town

Blake Crouch · 2014 · Wayward Pines

After a town-wide revelation, Ethan Burke must help Wayward Pines survive when its defenses fail and the outside threat pours in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: controlled town · survival crisis · truth reveal · siege · authoritarian control · post-apocalyptic settlement

Setting labels: small town · isolated town · Idaho · fenced enclosure · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian setting · mountain town · last human settlement

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Distance: 0.1925

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In the Country of Last Things

Paul Auster · 1992

A young woman writes from a collapsing city while scavenging to survive and searching for her missing brother.

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Premise labels: missing sibling · survival quest · collapsing city · urban breakdown · post-collapse society · scavenging economy · letter narrative

Setting labels: unnamed city · unnamed country · post-collapse urban setting · resource scarcity · harsh winter · unstable government · anonymous future

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Distance: 0.1941

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Sick Bastards

Matt Shaw · 2014 · Sick Bastards

A memoryless family survives nuclear fallout in isolation, but hunger, taboo, and hidden truths reshape them.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival horror · nuclear fallout · family survival · amnesia · identity mystery · extreme horror · post-apocalyptic survival · moral collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · nuclear aftermath · isolated house · remote wilderness · collapsed world · infected outside · unknown reality

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Distance: 0.1943

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Stung

Bethany Wiggins · 2013 · Stung

An amnesiac teen awakens in a bee-blighted dystopia, marked as dangerous and hunted on all sides.

Why this is here

Premise labels: bee collapse · medical catastrophe · tattooed outcast · amnesia protagonist · wall society · hidden infection · survival chase · retold fairytale

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · walled city · outside the wall · sewers · tunnels · near-future

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Distance: 0.1953

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The Warren

Brian Evenson · 2016

An amnesiac, many-minded survivor in a sealed refuge questions his humanity after finding another person outside.

Why this is here

Premise labels: identity crisis · multiple selves · memory loss · humanity question · last survivor · underground refuge · hostile surface · post-human survival · personhood test · alienation

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · unnamed planet · underground shelter · hostile wasteland · toxic surface · remote outpost · isolated habitat

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Distance: 0.1954

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Alles wat er was

Hanna Bervoets · 2013

After a sudden disaster, eight people are sealed inside a school and must survive as fear, hunger, and doubt take over.

Why this is here

Premise labels: group survival · isolation · sealed indoors · post-disaster shelter · social breakdown · resource scarcity · unknown outside · cabin fever

Setting labels: school building · basisschool · gymnasium · post-apocalyptic · sealed interior · outside danger · isolation

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Distance: 0.1956

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Dragon Head, Volume 1

Minetarō Mochizuki · 2006 · ドラゴンヘッド [Dragon Head]

A school train trip turns into a nightmare when a tunnel collapse traps three teens underground with no clear way out.

Why this is here

Premise labels: survival · trapped underground · post-disaster survival · escape problem · isolated survivors · psychological breakdown · mystery outside · unknown catastrophe · claustrophobic survival · fight for survival

Setting labels: train tunnel · underground · collapsed tunnel · post-apocalyptic world · destroyed surface · claustrophobic setting · isolated location · school trip · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1956

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The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2009 · The Maze Runner

A memory-wiped teen joins a boy-run refuge beside a deadly changing maze, where survival depends on solving its secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · maze escape · survival · teen boy cast · isolated community · arrival of a girl

Setting labels: maze enclosure · walled settlement · isolated compound · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting

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Distance: 0.1961

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Under the Dome

Stephen King · 2009

A Maine town is trapped under an invisible barrier, and isolation turns neighbors into rivals in a fight for control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: sealed town · isolation crisis · social breakdown · power grab · survival under pressure · siege narrative · small-town collapse · human nature test

Setting labels: small town · Maine · rural town · isolated community · contemporary world · contained setting · pressure-cooker setting · dystopian setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1964

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