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 0.1968
   agrees most onPacingPrice Type
3. 3Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
   Samuel R. Delany, 1984
   step distance 0.1571
   Price TypeProtagonist Fate
4. 4The Years of Rice and Salt
   Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002
   step distance 0.2253
   PacingPrice Type
5. 5Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
   Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
   step distance 0.2984
   PacingTime Structure
6. 6The Separation
   Christopher Priest, 2002
   step distance 0.2050
   Conflict StylePacing
7. 7The Sparrow
   Mary Doria Russell, 1996
   step distance 0.2707
   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 0.2268
   PacingThreat Scale
9. 9Stories of Your Life and Others
   Ted Chiang, 2002
   step distance 0.4045
   Threat ScaleConflict Style
10. 10Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.2493
    Price TypeThreat Scale
11. 11The Circular Ruins
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.1623
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale
12. 12The Form of the Sword
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    step distance 0.4128
    Time StructureProtagonist Fate
13. 13Gateway
    Frederik Pohl, 1977
    step distance 0.3741
    Threat ScaleTime Structure

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