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Premise labels used: childhood friends, annual hunting trip, alien invasion, telepathy, shared past, quarantine, military lockdown, survival, extraterrestrial threat, human-alien encounter, body takeover, infection
Setting labels used: Maine, Derry, wilderness, woods, hunting cabin, snowy setting, winter, small town, United States, present day, contemporary, quarantined zone
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A sister must protect her mentally ill brother as a townwide outbreak turns sanity into a weapon and forces an impossible choice.
Why this is here
Premise labels: family crisis · outbreak · quarantine · government conspiracy · moral dilemma · save family or world · infectious madness · sibling burden
Setting labels: small town · Maine · Seattle · quarantine zone · contemporary · pandemic era feel · rural community
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2189
A prepared former Marine tries to protect his family as a lethal flu pandemic triggers neighborhood breakdown.
Why this is here
Premise labels: global pandemic · flu pandemic · family survival · prepper protagonist · quarantine · societal collapse · resource scarcity · home defense · neighbor conflict · civilizational breakdown · disaster preparedness
Setting labels: Maine · New England · suburban neighborhood · one street · one house · one neighborhood · small-town USA · contemporary setting · global outbreak · winter setting · post-collapse society · quarantine at home
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2208
A final expedition into Area X unspools hidden origins, shifting identities, and the cost of confronting the unknowable.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mysterious wilderness · border crossing · missing persons · alien contagion · expedition mystery · ecological anomaly · quarantine zone · first contact
Setting labels: wilderness · coastal setting · island · lighthouse · winter setting · remote outpost · quarantine zone · altered Earth · alien landscape · environmental anomaly
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2217
After a plane crash in Alaska, a teen girl must keep her “brother” safe while mysterious men hunt them.
Why this is here
Premise labels: plane crash · on the run · alien child · protective journey · wilderness survival · pursuit · found family · family bonds · escape mission
Setting labels: Alaska · Alaskan wilderness · Alaskan mountains · snowy wilderness · frozen tundra · national park · rural town · contemporary setting · near-Arctic spring · remote wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2257
A storm strands a father and son in a supermarket as a strange mist brings terrifying creatures and social collapse.
Why this is here
Premise labels: survival horror · monster threat · isolated group · trapped in public space · unknown menace · civilization breakdown · family protection
Setting labels: small town · Maine · supermarket · storm aftermath · claustrophobic setting · rural setting · lake community · everyday location
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2354
Quarantined on an island boarding school, three girls face a mutating illness, dangerous woods, and a friend gone missing.
Why this is here
Premise labels: quarantine outbreak · island isolation · body mutation · missing friend · survival struggle · mystery illness · boarding school crisis · female friendship · queer romance · secret history
Setting labels: island school · boarding school · remote island · quarantine zone · coastal Maine · post-outbreak · isolated community · nature turned dangerous · government containment · small-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2362
A teen on a Maine island faces quarantine, military takeover, and a growing mystery tied to a strange drug and strange skies.
Why this is here
Premise labels: quarantine · island lockdown · military takeover · mysterious virus · conspiracy · performance drug · superhuman ability · young detectives · end-times threat · truth uncovering
Setting labels: present day · fictional island · coastal Maine · small town · vacation island · tourist town · isolated community · modern military setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2409
A buried alien force in a Maine town slowly twists its residents, as two damaged friends dig toward the truth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien object · buried spaceship · small-town takeover · mysterious influence · mind control · body horror · invasive force · discovery turns dangerous
Setting labels: small town · rural community · Maine · woods · backyard discovery · isolated town · post-Cold War era · 1980s
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2412
After an alien invasion, two teens on opposite sides of the war uncover unsettling truths about what the Nahx did to humanity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien invasion · teen survival · human resistance · enemy perspective · post-apocalyptic crisis · identity transformation · hidden truth · war on Earth
Setting labels: Canada · winter setting · snowy landscape · post-apocalyptic Earth · human-controlled territory · alien-occupied territory · refugee camp
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2422
A burned-out rural ER doctor faces a strange comet, a bloodied child, and a lurking creature in snowy Minnesota.
Why this is here
Premise labels: isolated doctor · cabin in woods · remote hospital · mysterious child · cosmic event · ancient evil · monster hunt · survival horror · small-town crisis · haunted past · reckoning · human connection
Setting labels: rural Minnesota · northern Minnesota · remote wilderness · snowy woods · winter setting · isolated cabin · small town · one-room cabin · hospital setting · ER setting · north woods · Indigenous land · night setting · boreal forest · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2422
A stranded alien and a lonely woman in a snowbound cabin find unexpected chemistry over Christmas.
Why this is here
Premise labels: stranded aliens · cabin isolation · snowbound romance · forced proximity · holiday meet-cute · survival together · alien observation mission
Setting labels: remote mountain cabin · snowy woods · winter · Christmas season · Earth · isolated rural setting · primitive planet (from alien viewpoint)
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2457
An EMP drops the grid, freeing a captive survivor into a brutal winter escape while a hunter closes in.
Why this is here
Premise labels: EMP attack · grid collapse · escape from captivity · cat and mouse chase · survival against the elements · fugitive pursuit · apocalypse as catalyst · ordinary people in collapse
Setting labels: winter setting · snowstorm · rural Michigan · Upper Michigan · Michigan wilderness · forest setting · isolated cabin · basement captivity · post apocalyptic world · grid down world · small town setting · Christmas setting · dead of winter · hostile wilderness
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2485
