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A.J. Ryan

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Premise labels used: amnesia, locked room, survival mission, mysterious quest, strangers in danger, unknown purpose, team under orders, memory loss, secret mission, isolated group

Setting labels used: boat, at sea, river journey, mist-shrouded waters, London, Thames, post-apocalyptic London, England, unknown location, enclosed setting

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The Fear

Charlie Higson · 2014 · The Enemy

Children crossing a ruined London face smarter infected adults, shifting alliances, and a dangerous search for lost friends.

Why this is here

Premise labels: adult infection · child survival · city journey · lost friends · hostile world · survival mission · enemy threat · faction conflict · rebuilding society · search mission

Setting labels: London · contemporary London · post-apocalyptic city · urban wasteland · Buckingham Palace · Tower of London · Parliament · Natural History Museum · Thames · near future · very near future · collapsed civilization

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Distance: 0.2255

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How We End

L.M. Juniper · 2022 · How We Survive Series

Seven strangers try to survive a fast-moving zombie outbreak and the end of London while forging an unlikely family.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie outbreak · survival group · strangers to family · societal collapse · escape the city · infection outbreak · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: London · England · United Kingdom · suburbia · underground transit · tube · canals · narrowboats · modern-day · apocalyptic world

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Distance: 0.2269

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Tanglewreck

Jeanette Winterson · 2008 · Tanglewreck

An 11-year-old girl must find a hidden clock to stop time warps threatening reality.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time disruption · time control · quest object · hidden artifact · orphaned heroine · world at risk · race against time · magical house · pursuit by villains

Setting labels: London · England · River Thames · hidden underground world · alternate universe · parallel worlds · time travel setting · magical realism

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Distance: 0.2301

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Zom-B Angels

Darren Shan · 2013 · Zom-B

A lone zombie girl follows cryptic signs into a hidden community, where survival secrets turn into a bigger war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · safe haven · secret group · training for conflict · good vs evil · origin mystery · survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic London · city ruins · secret headquarters · abandoned building · undead-infested world · fictional apocalypse

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Distance: 0.2374

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Neverwhere: BBC Dramatisation

Neil Gaiman · 2013

An ordinary Londoner is pulled into a hidden underground city and joins a quest to survive, escape, and get home.

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Premise labels: hidden world · underground city · ordinary person swept in · quest · missing person · rescue mission · return home

Setting labels: London · London Below · London Above · underground · subterranean · urban fantasy world · parallel worlds · sewers · tube stations · labyrinthine city

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Distance: 0.2395

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The Light at the Bottom of the World

London Shah · 2021 · Light the Abyss

In a flooded future London, a teen racer enters a deadly underwater marathon to win her father’s freedom and expose the truth.

Why this is here

Premise labels: rescue mission · falsely accused parent · government conspiracy · race for a wish · underwater survival · truth quest · defy authority · save family

Setting labels: underwater city · submerged London · future Britain · post-apocalyptic future · oceanic abyss · ruined landmarks · undersea society · 2099 · late 21st century · alternate future

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Distance: 0.2414

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London

Frank Tayell · 2013 · Surviving The Evacuation

A broken-legged government adviser journals his way through London’s zombie evacuation as supplies fail and secrets surface.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie outbreak · lone survivor · evacuation crisis · survival under siege · isolated protagonist · government contacts · broken leg · limited supplies · city collapse · post-apocalyptic survival

Setting labels: London · England · United Kingdom · post-apocalyptic · evacuated city · urban isolation · British setting · worldwide outbreak · early outbreak · quarantined island

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Distance: 0.2414

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Dog Blood

David Moody · 2010 · Hater

In a ravaged England, an infected father hunts for his daughter while rival factions fight to survive and dominate.

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Premise labels: survival · catastrophe · infected faction · faction conflict · family search · daughter quest · apocalypse · war for survival · infiltration

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · England · London · city centers · quarantine zones · refugee areas · war zone · ravaged landscape

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Distance: 0.2422

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Bird Box

Josh Malerman · 2014 · Bird Box

In a world where seeing something can drive you mad, a mother must blindfold herself and her children to survive a river escape.

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Premise labels: unknown threat · blindfold survival · seen-to-go-mad · post-collapse survival · mother and children · safe haven quest · fear of the unseen · isolation survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · suburban America · Detroit · river journey · abandoned house · safe house · isolated refuge · global collapse · ravaged world

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Distance: 0.2445

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Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned

Stephen Cole · 2006 · Doctor Who: New Series Adventures

The Doctor and Rose investigate a shipwreck whose drowned dead begin haunting London and luring the living to the Thames.

Why this is here

Premise labels: shipwreck mystery · ghost apparitions · missing persons · alien threat · investigation · water-based horror

Setting labels: modern London · North Sea · the Thames · contemporary Earth · naval setting · underwater threat

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Distance: 0.2463

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The Way Up is Death

Dan Hanks · 2025

Thirteen strangers are dragged to a floating tower and forced to climb it, where each level tests survival, conscience, and grief.

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Premise labels: mysterious tower · strangers trapped together · race to the top · survival challenge · countdown · ascension quest · why-were-they-chosen mystery · deadly game · humanity test · apocalyptic stakes

Setting labels: England · UK · English countryside · floating tower · tower in the sky · otherworldly reality · surreal landscape · haunted-house spaces · sinking ships · beaches · video-game-like spaces · apparent post-pandemic world · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.2476

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The Coma

Alex Garland · 2004

After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.

Why this is here

Premise labels: coma · amnesia · altered consciousness · dream state · identity loss · wake-up quest · psychological mystery · reality distortion · subconscious journey · survival

Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2481

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