Drift walk

Drift: from The Snow Queen

From The Snow Queen (Joan D. Vinge), 12 hops, each to the nearest structurally unvisited work — how local similarity accumulates into global drift.

  1. Joan D. Vinge, 1980
    start
  2. Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018
    step distance 0.2163
    agrees most onConflict StyleProtagonist Fate
  3. Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993
    step distance 0.1592
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  4. Ted Chiang, 2002
    step distance 0.2184
    Time StructureConflict Style
  5. Isaac Asimov, 1951
    step distance 0.2594
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale
  6. Octavia E. Butler, 2005
    step distance 0.1919
    Conflict StylePacing
  7. Ann Leckie, 2014
    step distance 0.3188
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  8. Nicola Griffith, 1992
    step distance 0.2615
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  9. William Gibson, 2003
    step distance 0.0951
    Time StructureThreat Scale
  10. Lisa Goldstein, 2003
    step distance 0.2741
    Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
  11. Stanislaw Lem, 1965
    step distance 0.3814
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  12. Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
    step distance 0.2441
    PacingThreat Scale
  13. Isaac Asimov, 1982
    step distance 0.3800
    Protagonist FatePacing

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