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Premise labels used: contagious happiness, pandemic outbreak, virus with consequences, virus as social threat, public health conflict, truth versus propaganda, power versus empathy, economy disrupted, anti-consumerism

Setting labels used: near future, post-covid world, global pandemic, contemporary world, worldwide crisis

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder · 2023

Three women are remade by a strange virus as a collapsing world veers into body horror, desire, and cosmic dread.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic aftermath · body mutation · apocalypse · survival · queer awakening · brain hunger · murder compulsion · chronic illness · eldritch influence · world collapse

Setting labels: near future · post-COVID · pandemic world · dystopian world · global collapse · medical institutions · psychiatric ward · workplace setting · brothel setting · apocalyptic reality

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Distance: 0.1199

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Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

An oral-history prequel charts the outbreak of Haden's Syndrome and the world-changing response that follows.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · global pandemic · medical crisis · post-pandemic society · disabled future · technology response · public policy · civil rights · social change · worldbuilding prelude

Setting labels: near future · global setting · United States · pandemic era · post-outbreak society · virtual worlds · robotic avatars · speculative future

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Distance: 0.1354

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The Violence

Delilah S. Dawson · 2022

A post-COVID rage plague gives an abused mother a dangerous chance to free herself and protect her daughters.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · rage plague · viral violence · abuse escape · women under threat · family crisis · post-pandemic society · survival under duress

Setting labels: post-COVID world · near future · 2025 · Florida · United States · pandemic world · quarantine · warm climates · suburban home · gated community · big box store

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Distance: 0.1421

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Kingdom of Needle and Bone

Mira Grant · 2018

When a deadly measles-like outbreak shatters herd immunity, one doctor must choose how far to go to save humanity.

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Premise labels: pandemic outbreak · vaccine refusal · herd immunity · medical crisis · public health collapse · survival dilemma · ethical choice · quarantine refuge · worldwide contagion · compromised immunity

Setting labels: contemporary · United States · Canada · global pandemic · amusement park · medical practice · quarantine island · isolated refuge · post-outbreak world

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Distance: 0.1623

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The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1998

A poetic future-past novel follows a group of friends as plague, politics, and grief drive humanity toward extinction.

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Premise labels: plague apocalypse · last survivor · end of humanity · future dystopia · global epidemic

Setting labels: late 21st century · future England · Europe · post-monarchy republic · global pandemic world · technologically static future · post-collapse

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Distance: 0.1671

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End of Summer

S.M. Anderson · 2019 · Seasons of Man

A viral apocalypse leaves 3% alive, forcing a hardened survivor and other stragglers to fight for humanity.

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Premise labels: viral apocalypse · pandemic collapse · survival struggle · found family · post-collapse conflict · human predators

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · global pandemic aftermath · collapsed civilization · hospitality/safe-haven facade · military/urban survival

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Distance: 0.1676

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Le Fléau 1/2

Stephen King · 2003 · The Stand (split volumes)

A deadly flu wipes out most of America, forcing a handful of survivors toward opposing visions of the future.

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Premise labels: viral outbreak · pandemic collapse · post-apocalyptic survival · immunized survivors · good versus evil · vision quest

Setting labels: United States · global pandemic · secret military laboratory · post-apocalyptic world · urban and rural America

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Distance: 0.1689

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Lock In

John Scalzi · 2014 · Lock In

A rookie FBI agent in a near-future post-pandemic world investigates a murder tied to a new society of locked-in people.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · disability technology · mind-body split · robot bodies · virtual society · murder investigation · federal investigation · identity crisis · post-plague society

Setting labels: near future · Earth · United States · futuristic society · post-pandemic world · virtual world · shared virtual space · corporate world · law enforcement setting

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Distance: 0.1748

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Under the Blue

Oana Aristide · 2021

A reclusive artist crosses a ruined Europe with two sisters while scientists raise an AI to predict humanity’s fate.

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Premise labels: post-pandemic survival · AI prediction · end of the world · humanity’s future · ethical AI

Setting labels: post-pandemic Europe · near future · London · countryside refuge · Arctic Circle · Africa-bound journey · post-apocalyptic world · global pandemic setting

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Distance: 0.1759

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We Hear Voices

Evie Green · 2020

In a near-future pandemic-stricken London, a mother must protect her son after his recovery brings back something unseen and dangerous.

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Premise labels: mysterious pandemic · imaginary friend · children hearing voices · violent influence · family under strain · post-illness aftermath · secret research facility · space program · dystopian collapse · near-future crisis

Setting labels: near future · future London · dystopian society · apocalyptic world · post-pandemic · global pandemic · collapsed Earth · spacefaring future · underground facility · communal living

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Distance: 0.1776

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Memetic

James Tynion IV · 2015

A viral internet meme triggers a fast-moving apocalypse, forcing two unaffected survivors to confront its spread.

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Premise labels: weaponized meme · viral outbreak · internet meme · apocalypse trigger · mind control · memetic contagion · information hazard · social contagion · communication threat

Setting labels: contemporary · internet age · social media · global crisis · apocalyptic world · dystopian world · modern technology · worldwide outbreak

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Distance: 0.1794

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How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu · 2022

An interconnected future-history of a global plague unleashed by melting permafrost, tracing grief, survival, and hope.

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Premise labels: pandemic aftermath · climate plague · worldwide contagion · post-apocalyptic survival · grief and loss · human resilience · end-of-the-world

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · Arctic Circle · Siberia · melting permafrost · global setting · future Earth · outer space

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Distance: 0.1817

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