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Premise labels used: climate disaster, flooded world, survival journey, preservation mission, found family, resource scarcity, road novel, escape story

Setting labels used: New York City, American Museum of Natural History, museum roof, Central Park, Hudson River, Massachusetts, flooded future, post climate change, drowned city, submerged world, upstate journey

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After the Flood

Kassandra Montag · 2019

In a flooded future, a mother risks everything on a sea voyage to rescue the daughter taken from her years ago.

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Premise labels: climate apocalypse · flood survival · child rescue quest · mother search · survival journey · post-collapse world · resource scarcity · lawless world

Setting labels: flooded Earth · post-apocalyptic future · near future · mountaintop settlements · boat living · open water · lawless frontier · Greenland · Nebraska · Arctic Circle · climate-changed world

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Distance: 0.1783

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Into the Sunken City

Dinesh Thiru · 2024

In a rain-drowned future, a grieving teen diver joins a risky treasure heist to save her sister and their future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: flooded world · sunken city · treasure hunt · heist · deep-sea dive · sibling survival · last chance job · dangerous salvage · pirate adventure · climate disaster

Setting labels: flooded Earth · underwater cities · constant rain · post-climate-change · future setting · American Southwest · Arizona · Las Vegas · coastal settlement · drowned world · archipelago world · undersea ruins

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Distance: 0.1884

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The Ward

Jordana Frankel · 2013 · The Ward

A fearless teen racer in flooded Manhattan races for her sick sister and uncovers a deeper conspiracy beneath the water.

Why this is here

Premise labels: water scarcity · flooded city · sister rescue · government mission · freshwater search · plague cure · secret assignment · survival race · futuristic city

Setting labels: flooded Manhattan · waterlogged city · near-future · post-apocalyptic city · quarantined district · upper and lower class split · urban ruins · saline water · underground mystery · isolated city

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Distance: 0.1941

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Salt

Liz Shipton · 2023 · Thalassic

In a flooded future, a reckless young sailor flees danger with her teacher, chasing secrets, survival, and a slow-burn spark.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · waterworld · pirate adventure · sailing journey · quest for answers · underground organization · fleeing danger · flooded future · pandemic aftermath · climate disaster · found family · forbidden attraction

Setting labels: future earth · post-pandemic · post-apocalyptic · flooded world · ocean setting · island setting · coastal cities · boat travel · nautical setting · isolated communities · waterworld · future tech · biotech · corporate world · black market · pirate haven · saline environment

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Distance: 0.2040

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Ode to the Half-Broken

Suzanne Palmer · 2026

An isolated war robot with a stolen leg embarks on a post-apocalyptic road trip that turns into a fight for hope, identity, and peace.

Why this is here

Premise labels: robot quest · stolen limb · post-apocalyptic recovery · found family · AI autonomy · road trip · conspiracy · past reckoning · survival

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic Earth · United States · New York City · New York Botanical Gardens · ruins · collapsed society · shared human-machine world

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Distance: 0.2113

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Mordacious

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2016 · The City

Two survivors trapped in a collapsing New York City fight zombies, scarcity, and growing feelings in a dual-POV apocalypse.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · city survival · stranded survivors · finding family · resource scarcity · small group survival · found family

Setting labels: New York City · urban apocalypse · hospital setting · island city · bridge shutdown · same universe · same world

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Distance: 0.2126

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Until the End of the World

Sarah Lyons Fleming · 2013 · Until the End of the World

As a virus turns New York into a zombie outbreak, Cassie and her friends flee for survival, safety, and second chances.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · viral outbreak · survival journey · found family · safe haven · second chance romance · bug-out story · prepper survival

Setting labels: New York City · Brooklyn · rural cabin · upstate New York · post-apocalyptic world · present-day contemporary · woodlands · safe zone

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Distance: 0.2152

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Under a Graveyard Sky

John Ringo · 2013 · Black Tide Rising

A prepared family escapes an airborne zombie outbreak by sea, then works to rescue survivors and build refuge.

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Premise labels: zombie plague · airborne outbreak · family survival · sea escape · survivor rescue · rebuilding society · search and rescue · vaccine race

Setting labels: Atlantic Ocean · New York City · post-collapse world · apocalyptic present · high seas · civilization breakdown · boatbound survival · shipboard community

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Distance: 0.2169

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Floodland

Marcus Sedgwick · 2001

In a flooded future Britain, a ten-year-old girl sets out by boat to find her parents and survive what remains.

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Premise labels: global warming disaster · survival quest · search for parents · stranded child · journey by boat · resource scarcity · post-collapse society

Setting labels: near future · flooded Britain · flooded England · island society · post-apocalyptic world · sea-level rise · coastal collapse · isolated communities

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Distance: 0.2172

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Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden · 2012 · Joe Golem: Occult Detective

In a flooded alternate New York, a teen girl and a golem detective race to uncover a supernatural kidnapping.

Why this is here

Premise labels: flooded city · occult investigation · missing person · rescue mission · alternate history · supernatural conspiracy · young heroine · golem protagonist

Setting labels: drowned Manhattan · flooded New York City · alternate history · post-cataclysmic city · canal streets · rooftop living · improvised bridges · industrial occult · 1920s-to-1970s time shift

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Distance: 0.2173

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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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Distance: 0.2180

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The Drowned World

J.G. Ballard · 2013

In a flooded, overheated future London, a scientist faces nature, madness, and a pull back toward the prehistoric.

Why this is here

Premise labels: flooded world · global warming · solar catastrophe · climate collapse · submerged city · environmental collapse · human regression · primitive consciousness · psychological devolution · scientific expedition · survival in ruins · exploration mission

Setting labels: future London · submerged city · tropical lagoon · post-flood world · Triassic climate · polar refuge · humid jungle · silted ruins · urban decay · near future · global southward migration · overheated Earth

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2189

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