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These books are ranked using the themes labels extracted for The Last Ship.
Themes labels used: survival, leadership, command responsibility, morality, repopulation, gender politics, isolation, civilization collapse, hope, human nature, duty, mutually assured destruction, survivorship, community building, religion, justice
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their themes embeddings are close.
Survivors in a prison face shifting alliances, brutal choices, and a new arrival that destabilizes the group.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · morality · humanity · adaptation · leadership · trust · loss of innocence · power · gender politics · community governance · justice · despair · stress · social breakdown
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0638
After an asteroid strike ends civilization, a prepared survival group and scattered survivors struggle through a brutal new world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · humanity · morality · civilization collapse · social breakdown · hope · hope amid ruin · animalism · gender roles · leadership · sacrifice · community · lawlessness
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0687
A rogue planet threatens Earth, and a scientist-led team must build a spaceship and choose who may escape.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · human nature · humanity · science and progress · duty · free will · repopulation · moral triage · civic collapse · faith · religious implication · class privilege · racism · sexism · collective action · civilization ending
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0696
A survivor fleet battles zombies at sea while turning rescue operations into a military campaign to rebuild civilization.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · logistics · leadership · discipline · civilization rebuilding · order vs chaos · authority · human cooperation · resource scarcity · law after collapse · ethics in crisis · cure seeking · disease containment · responsibility · gender politics
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0715
A young man crosses a deadly underground Moscow metro to warn the city-states of a looming threat from the darkness above.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · human nature · ideology · religion · politics · war · fate · duty · hope · despair · community · humanity · anthropocentrism · moral decline · civilization collapse · power · belief systems · truth · fear · resilience
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0742
A secret sleeper program races to save a select few from an extinction-level comet and wakes into a changed world.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · human resilience · preparedness · secrecy · cover-up · sacrifice · hope · rebuilding · social order · survival ethics · government power · trust · global crisis · collective action · humanity · nationalism · isolationism · responsibility · duty
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0748
A bunker-trained Army captain emerges into plague-ravaged America with orders to rescue survivors and rebuild order.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · collapse · duty · leadership · order vs chaos · rebuilding · contagion · humanity lost · morality under pressure · isolation · trust · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0787
A lone survivor joins a museum refuge and faces both the undead and the darker horrors of surviving humans.
Why this is here
Themes labels: humanity · survival ethics · good and evil · faith · religion · community · civilization rebuilding · human nature · violence · hope · moral ambiguity · isolation · suffering · theodicy · social collapse
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0802
Three centuries after society falls, survivors in a ruined dark age battle infection, power, and cruelty to endure.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival · civilizational decay · power · corruption · religion · politics · morality · human nature · gender oppression · hope · social commentary · adaptation · good versus evil
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0804
A soldier-turned-leader fights to hold a growing refuge together as the infected evolve and human rivals close in.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · leadership · community building · betrayal · human conflict · duty · honor · resource politics · civilization collapse · adaptation · science of infection · hope vs despair
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0825
After a world-ending virus, rival survivor factions clash while former soldiers and civilians try to build order.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · rebuilding society · freedom · law and order · anti-extremism · collective action · power abuse · human nature · civilizational collapse · morality under pressure · ideological conflict · hope · responsibility
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0840
After a global blackout, a teen and his fortified neighborhood face a deadly enemy while trying to survive and rebuild.
Why this is here
Themes labels: survival ethics · moral injury · guilt · responsibility · community cooperation · hope · human nature · preparedness · self-reliance · leadership · consequences · revenge · justice · civilization fragility · working together · technology dependence · coming of age
Semantic match: ranked by themes
Distance: 0.0841
