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Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Premise labels used: post-apocalyptic survival, returning gods, fallen god, tribal survival, resource scarcity, terraforming conflict, god complex, revenge quest

Setting labels used: post-apocalyptic Earth, distant future, poisoned world, ruined cities, tribal society, space utopia, dying Earth

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Ghosts

Nicholas Sansbury Smith · 2017 · Hell Divers

A surface mission in a ruined future Earth uncovers buried truths, mounting unrest, and a dangerous leader’s secrets.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · airship society · surface scavenging · missing signal · hidden secrets · betrayal · humanity survival

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · flying airship · surface wasteland · radiated wasteland · toxic planet · future Earth · destroyed world · closed society

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The People of Sparks

Jeanne DuPrau · 2004 · Book of Ember

After leaving Ember, Lina and Doon help their people survive above ground while a fragile new settlement edges toward conflict.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · refugee arrival · resource scarcity · community conflict · civil unrest · mystery of vandalism · peacebuilding

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · underground city · surface world · small village · ruined cities · resource-poor settlement · future earth

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The Fog Diver

Joel N. Ross · 2015 · The Fog Diver

A teen salvage diver and his orphan crew race through a fog-choked future to save their guardian and outrun a tyrant.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · salvage crew · deadly fog · special ability · adopted family · quest for cure · escape pursuit · resource scarcity

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · mountaintop settlements · floating slums · airships · junkyards · ruined Earth · nanotech world · dying Earth

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Distance: 0.1412

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Time Siege

Wesley Chu · 2016 · Time Salvager

A fugitive time traveler and his allies fight corporate forces while trying to save a plague-ravaged future Earth.

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Premise labels: time travel · resource scavenging · fugitive heroes · corporate pursuit · plague cure · planetary survival · future Earth restoration · wasteland resistance

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · toxic wasteland · spacefaring solar system · 26th century · Manhattan · Boston · tribal settlement · corporate-controlled society · ruined civilization

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Distance: 0.1418

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Shade's Children

Garth Nix · 1997 · Shade's Children

In a ruined future where children vanish at fourteen, escaped teens join a mysterious AI-led resistance.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · teen rebellion · harvested children · AI mentor · resistance against overlords · escape from captivity · fight for survival

Setting labels: futuristic city · urban wasteland · post-apocalyptic Earth · alternate Earth · dystopian future · near future · subterranean refuge

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Distance: 0.1434

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Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D

Andre Norton · 1980

A mutant outcast and his telepathic cat journey through a post-nuclear future to find a lost city and prove his worth.

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Premise labels: mutant outcast · post-nuclear future · search for lost city · ruined civilization · survival adventure · exploration quest · tribal society · outsider hero · telepathic animal companion · race relations

Setting labels: future Earth · post-apocalyptic world · post-nuclear landscape · atomic war aftermath · ruined cities · radiation zones · tribal societies · primitive future · healing earth · far future

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Wolf in Shadow

David Gemmell · 1994 · Jon Shannow

A Bible-quoting gunslinger crosses a ruined future Earth, hunting Jerusalem and battling human and supernatural evil.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · lone gunslinger · lost city search · good vs evil · evil cult · biblical quest · demon war · redemption journey

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · future Earth · future wasteland · dystopian future · flooded world · geological upheaval · reversed oceans · ruined civilization · old world remnants · alternate-history feel

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The Dead Lands

Benjamin Percy · 2015

In a ruined America, two allies leave a fortress city after a stranger’s warning and cross a deadly wasteland westward.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · walled city · outside world revelation · survival journey · search for refuge · expedition · rebuilding society

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined United States · walled city · former St. Louis · wasteland · dead lands · Oregon route · far future · dystopian future · irradiated landscape · mutated ecosystem

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Distance: 0.1456

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Alight

Scott Sigler · 2016 · The Generations Trilogy

A memory-wiped teen leader and her group land on an alien world, only to face survival, betrayal, and war.

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Premise labels: survival quest · memory loss · leadership struggle · alien world · fight or die · colonization conflict · coming-of-age under pressure · resource scarcity

Setting labels: alien planet · spacecraft · ruined city · jungle · tunnels · post-apocalyptic world · isolated colony · far-future

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Distance: 0.1479

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The Maze Cutter

James Dashner · 2022 · The Maze Cutter

Decades after the original apocalypse, island-raised descendants leave safety and confront evolved threats, rival factions, and secrets.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · descendant cast · island community · return to mainland · mysterious ship · evolved plague · faction conflict · who to trust · cure quest · future humanity

Setting labels: post apocalypse · post-post-apocalyptic · island settlement · mainland · ruins · scientific dystopia · cultic society · future world · Flare-affected world

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Plop

Rafael Pinedo · 2005

In a ruined, rain-soaked future, a boy named Plop claws his way up a brutal survivor hierarchy.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · rise to power · barbaric society · ruined world · scarcity survival · social ascent

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · ruined landscape · mud · toxic environment · scarcity setting · nomadic groups · tribal communities · ruins · future world

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Frost

M.P. Kozlowsky · 2016

A sheltered teen crosses a ruined city with a robot companion to save her dying pet and confront what humanity means.

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Premise labels: isolated survivor · post-apocalyptic quest · rescue mission · dying companion · journey home · ruined city · robots vs humans · humanity question · first journey · survival quest

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic city · ruined wasteland · abandoned apartment building · future world · ravaged city · dystopian landscape · isolated shelter · ruined streets · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.1489

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