Drift walk

Drift: from Ender's Game

From Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), 12 hops, each to the nearest structurally unvisited work — how local similarity accumulates into global drift.

  1. Orson Scott Card, 1985
    start
  2. David Brin, 1983
    step distance 0.1433
    agrees most onPacingPrice Type
  3. Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
    step distance 0.3819
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  4. Joe Haldeman, 1997
    step distance 0.2927
    Time StructurePrice Type
  5. Ada Palmer, 2021
    step distance 0.3144
    Conflict StylePacing
  6. Samuel R. Delany, 1968
    step distance 0.3851
    Conflict StylePrice Type
  7. Roger Zelazny, 1967
    step distance 0.3510
    Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
  8. William Gibson, 2019
    step distance 0.4160
    Price TypeConflict Style
  9. William Gibson, 2014
    step distance 0.3853
    Conflict StylePacing
  10. Robert A. Heinlein, 1959
    step distance 0.4371
    PacingTime Structure
  11. Colin Greenland, 1990
    step distance 0.4605
    Conflict StylePrice Type
  12. William Gibson, 1993
    step distance 0.4253
    Protagonist FatePacing
  13. Martha Wells, 2020
    step distance 0.3108
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale

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