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Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

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Premise labels used: volcanic disaster, scientist protagonist, love versus duty, family in crisis, marriage under strain, catastrophe backdrop

Setting labels used: Iceland, Reykjanes peninsula, volcanic island, geothermally active setting, contemporary setting, high-risk disaster zone

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Eruption

Harry Turtledove · 2011 · Supervolcano

A Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, scattering a fractured family across a collapsing America.

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Premise labels: supervolcanic eruption · natural disaster · apocalyptic catastrophe · survival · family drama · disaster aftermath · societal breakdown · world re-creation

Setting labels: Yellowstone · California · United States · North America · near future · post eruption · post apocalyptic world · refugee camp · winter travel · Maine

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Distance: 0.2489

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Eruption

Michael Crichton, James Patterson · 2024

A Hawaiian volcano nears eruption as a buried military secret turns a disaster into a race to save the world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: volcanic eruption · natural disaster · race against time · world-ending threat · government secret · military conspiracy · techno-thriller

Setting labels: Hawaii · Big Island · Mauna Loa · Hilo · Hawaiian Volcano Observatory · military facility · near-future · contemporary

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Distance: 0.2569

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The Man with the Compound Eyes

Wu Ming-Yi · 2013

A grieving Taiwanese professor and an island boy from a sacrifice tradition are thrown together by an ocean of trash.

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Premise labels: environmental catastrophe · trash vortex · grieving protagonist · island sacrifice · cross-cultural encounter · missing person · climate crisis · life-or-death journey · survival against destiny · human-nature conflict

Setting labels: Taiwan · Pacific island · fictional island · coastal setting · mountains · sea coast · forest setting · rainy climate · future Taiwan · climate-changed world · Pacific Ocean · indigenous island community · mountain village · oceanic setting

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Distance: 0.2582

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Apocalypse Machine

Jeremy Robinson · 2016

A scientist is pulled into a global kaiju apocalypse that wipes out civilization and forces a fight for survival and family.

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Premise labels: kaiju apocalypse · mass extinction · survival quest · family reunion · humanity vs monster · disaster cascade · apocalyptic judge

Setting labels: Iceland · Europe · Scotland · Norway · Russia · Northern Hemisphere · post-apocalyptic world · global disaster · new Ice Age · radioactive ash cloud · evolved world

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Distance: 0.2604

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Blue Skies

T. Coraghessan Boyle · 2023

A family’s uneven attempts to live normally amid accelerating climate collapse trigger darkly comic, escalating fallout.

Why this is here

Premise labels: climate crisis · family drama · eco thriller · near future · social satire · survival threat · one family · environmental collapse

Setting labels: near future · coastal America · California · Florida · US West Coast · US East Coast · climate-ravaged · drought and flood · wildfire country · storm-battered coast

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Distance: 0.2680

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Drømmen om et tre

Maja Lunde · 2022 · Klimakvartetten

In a climate-ravaged future, a boy guarding a seed vault in Svalbard faces catastrophe as another survivor heads north.

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Premise labels: seed bank · climate collapse · post-apocalypse · survival community · family duty · expedition north · isolated settlement

Setting labels: Svalbard · Longyearbyen · Arctic future · near-future · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · isolated island community · permafrost

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Distance: 0.2710

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The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin · 2015 · The Broken Earth

A mother searches a shattered world for her stolen child as an apocalyptic landscape and hidden powers collide.

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Premise labels: world-ending disaster · survival narrative · oppressed magic users · family search · resource scarcity · apocalyptic collapse

Setting labels: far future Earth · supercontinent · hostile climate · seismic world · post-apocalyptic · dying land · continent-scale setting · civilization after collapse

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Distance: 0.2747

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Destiny

Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale · 2017 · Nomad

As Earth is thrown into a second apocalypse, Jessica must choose between rescuing the people she loves and saving humanity.

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Premise labels: global catastrophe · survival mission · save humanity · save loved ones · Earth in danger · apocalyptic crisis · race against time

Setting labels: Earth · solar system · space travel · post-apocalyptic world · frigid wasteland · Saturn · China · Africa · Russia · Mongolia

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Distance: 0.2762

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This World We Live In

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 2010 · Last Survivors

A teen diarist survives a climate-warped world as two survivor families collide and love, faith, and shortages collide.

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Premise labels: asteroid disaster · moon impact · climate catastrophe · survival challenge · scarcity · family reunion · crossed paths · forced proximity · end of world

Setting labels: post apocalyptic Earth · small town · Pennsylvania · frozen landscape · worldwide disaster · climate change · winter survival · scarcity setting · intermittent electricity

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Distance: 0.2787

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Aftershocks

Ruby Dixon · 2016 · Ice Planet Barbarians

A companion novella revisits a catastrophic quake through multiple POVs as the tribe struggles to survive and regroup.

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Premise labels: post-disaster aftermath · survival · tribal crisis · companion novella · extra character insight · leadership under pressure

Setting labels: ice planet · tribal community · cave setting · post-earthquake · post-eruption · science fiction setting

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Distance: 0.2790

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The Afterlife Project

Tim Weed · 2025

Two timelines race against human extinction: one scientist survives the deep future, while others search for a way to continue the species.

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Premise labels: human extinction · species survival · future mission · last chance · fertility quest · scientific rescue · deep future · post-collapse survival · lonely survivor · repopulation

Setting labels: 2068 · far future · deep future · post-apocalyptic Earth · rewilded Earth · uninhabited wilderness · New Hampshire · Mediterranean Sea · volcanic island · post-climate-collapse · post-pandemic world

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Distance: 0.2791

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Ashfall

Mike Mullin · 2011 · Ashfall

After Yellowstone erupts, a teen boy treks through ash and violence to find his family, joined by a tough companion.

Why this is here

Premise labels: supervolcano eruption · survival trek · find family · disaster aftermath · collapse of civilization · end of the world

Setting labels: Yellowstone eruption scenario · rural Midwest · Iowa · Illinois · post-disaster landscape · ash-covered world · natural disaster realism

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Distance: 0.2804

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