Drift: from Acceptance

From Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer), 12 hops, each to the nearest structurally unvisited work — how local similarity accumulates into global drift.

1. 1Acceptance
   Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
   start
2. 2The Left Hand of Darkness
   Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
   step distance 0.1937
   agrees most onPacingPrice Type
3. 3Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
   Samuel R. Delany, 1984
   step distance 0.1560
   Price TypeProtagonist Fate
4. 4The Years of Rice and Salt
   Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002
   step distance 0.2223
   PacingPrice Type
5. 5Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
   Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
   step distance 0.2925
   PacingTime Structure
6. 6The Separation
   Christopher Priest, 2002
   step distance 0.2025
   Conflict StylePacing
7. 7The Sparrow
   Mary Doria Russell, 1996
   step distance 0.2686
   Price TypeProtagonist Fate
8. 8Altruizine or A True Account of How Bonhomius the Hermetic Hermit Tried to Bring About Universal Happiness
   Stanislaw Lem, 1965
   step distance 0.2234
   PacingThreat Scale
9. 9Stories of Your Life and Others
   Ted Chiang, 2002
   step distance 0.3969
   Threat ScaleConflict Style
10. 10Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.2457
    Price TypeThreat Scale
11. 11The Circular Ruins
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.1591
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale
12. 12The Form of the Sword
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.4115
    Time StructureProtagonist Fate
13. 13Gateway
    Frederik Pohl, 1977
    step distance 0.3665
    Threat ScaleTime Structure

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