Flood
A near-future global flood forces four freed hostages to navigate a drowning world and humanity’s scramble to survive.
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Plot structure labels used: decades-long, multi-generational, time jumps, spans 50 years, slow burn, parallel threads, epilogue
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A near-future global flood forces four freed hostages to navigate a drowning world and humanity’s scramble to survive.
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A long-gestating rivalry between two brothers ignites a continent-wide war in a lore-rich fantasy prequel.
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A memory-traveling woman builds a secluded California commune, and her family must confront its haunted legacy.
A stranded clone-heavy colony on an alien world must survive, adapt, and learn to read the planet’s truly alien natives.
An extended family fights to preserve human freedom across decades after inscrutable aliens conquer Earth.
A far-future terraforming team uncovers hidden people, corporate corruption, and a struggle over who counts as a person.
An immortal woman and a time traveler keep finding each other across centuries, risking love, grief, and time itself.
In a near-future America, one homeless man and his tribe try to survive a slow, believable collapse of society.
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On a planet of centuries-long seasons, humans and alien rivals struggle to survive, rebuild, and rediscover knowledge.
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A Predator stalks Wolverine across his entire life, forcing a brutal, decades-spanning hunter-vs-hunter showdown.
Two childhood friends become Imperial cadets, then lovers on opposite sides of the Galactic Civil War.
Twin heirs of an authoritarian realm grow up under prophecy, rebellion, and a radical system of chosen gender.
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