Drift walk

Drift: from The Forever War

From The Forever War (Joe Haldeman), 12 hops, each to the nearest structurally unvisited work — how local similarity accumulates into global drift.

  1. Joe Haldeman, 1974
    start
  2. Larry Niven, 1970
    step distance 0.3015
    agrees most onPacingTime Structure
  3. Dan Simmons, 1990
    step distance 0.3908
    PacingThreat Scale
  4. David Brin, 1983
    step distance 0.4808
    PacingTime Structure
  5. Orson Scott Card, 1985
    step distance 0.1276
    PacingPrice Type
  6. Alfred Bester, 1953
    step distance 0.3612
    Conflict StyleProtagonist Fate
  7. Martha Wells, 2020
    step distance 0.3628
    PacingThreat Scale
  8. Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994
    step distance 0.4368
    Time StructurePrice Type
  9. Vonda N. McIntyre, 1978
    step distance 0.4274
    Protagonist FateThreat Scale
  10. Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003
    step distance 0.4942
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  11. Stanislaw Lem, 1965
    step distance 0.3813
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  12. David Brin, 1987
    step distance 0.4833
    PacingThreat Scale
  13. Neal Stephenson, 1995
    step distance 0.4031
    Protagonist FateConflict Style

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