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Susan Beth Pfeffer

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Premise labels used: end of the world, disaster survival, family survival, apocalyptic crisis, catastrophic climate change

Setting labels used: Pennsylvania, small town, post-apocalyptic Earth, domestic confinement, single-household survival

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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: 0.1315

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Scorch Atlas

Blake Butler · 2009

Interlinked stories follow families enduring a series of surreal apocalypses in a bleak, language-driven vision of America.

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Premise labels: apocalypse · multiple cataclysms · survival after disaster · familial loss · personal apocalypse · end-times America · world collapse

Setting labels: America · ruined America · post-apocalyptic world · unnamed locations · timeless setting · place-unspecified setting · dystopian landscape · wasteland · suburban collapse · familial domestic spaces

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Distance: 0.1575

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The Upheaval

Erica Stevens · 2013 · The Survivor Chronicles

Three survivor groups race through a sudden, mysterious cascade of disasters as the world falls apart around them.

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Premise labels: apocalypse · end of the world · survival · disaster survival · search for loved ones · find shelter · race to safety · civilization collapse · nature revolt · mystery catastrophe

Setting labels: United States · East Coast · Northeastern US · Massachusetts · Rhode Island · New England · apocalyptic world · present day

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Hell on Earth

Tony Urban · 2016 · Life of the Dead

A zombie plague collapses America, and a scattered cast of survivors must fight, flee, and endure as the dead rise.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival struggle · outbreak aftermath · multiple survivors · civilization collapse · man-made plague

Setting labels: United States · small town · farm · cities · apocalypse setting · world-ending crisis

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Distance: 0.1701

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The Man Who Watched the World End

Chris Dietzel · 2013 · The Great De-evolution

An elderly man journals the quiet end of humanity while caring for his unresponsive brother in a world reclaimed by animals.

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Premise labels: end of the world · last survivors · human extinction · slow apocalypse · shrinking population · failed reproduction · caregiving · family bonds · isolated survivor · end of humanity

Setting labels: abandoned neighborhood · subdivision · suburban decay · housebound · wilderness encroachment · feral animals · post-collapse society · late-stage apocalypse · shrinking human world · dystopian landscape

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Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

John Joseph Adams, Ann Aguirre, Megan Arkenberg, Paolo Bacigalupi, Christopher Barzak, Lauren Beukes, David Brin, Orson Scott Card, Junot Díaz, Cory Doctorow, Tananarive Due, Toiya Kristen Finley, Milo James Fowler, Maria Dahvana Headley, Hugh Howey, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Jake Kerr, Nancy Kress, Joe R. Lansdale, George R.R. Martin, Jack McDevitt, Seanan McGuire, Maureen F. McHugh, D. Thomas Minton, Rudy Rucker, Ramsey Shehadeh, Robert Silverberg, Bruce Sterling, Rachel Swirsky, Genevieve Valentine, James Van Pelt, Christie Yant · 2015 · Wastelands

A post-apocalyptic anthology gathering 30 varied stories about survival, collapse, plague, and what remains after the end.

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Premise labels: end of the world · apocalypse survival · post-collapse world · civilization collapse · survival after disaster · multiple apocalypse scenarios · aftermath stories · end-times fiction

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · dystopian future · earth after disaster · collapse of civilization · desert landscape · quarantine · bunkers · ruins · American setting · global catastrophe