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. 1Ender's Game
   Orson Scott Card, 1985
   start
2. 2Startide Rising
   David Brin, 1983
   step distance 0.1276
   agrees most onPacingPrice Type
3. 3The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
   Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
   step distance 0.3047
   Conflict StyleTime Structure
4. 4Forever Peace
   Joe Haldeman, 1997
   step distance 0.2276
   Time StructurePrice Type
5. 5The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard
   Stanislaw Lem, 1965
   step distance 0.4150
   PacingProtagonist Fate
6. 6Rendezvous with Rama
   Arthur C. Clarke, 1973
   step distance 0.2441
   PacingThreat Scale
7. 7Foundation's Edge
   Isaac Asimov, 1982
   step distance 0.3800
   Protagonist FatePacing
8. 8The Foundation Trilogy
   Isaac Asimov, 1951
   step distance 0.2089
   Threat ScaleTime Structure
9. 9Fledgling
   Octavia E. Butler, 2005
   step distance 0.1919
   Conflict StylePacing
10. 10Seventy-Two Letters
    Ted Chiang, 2002
    step distance 0.2980
    Time StructureConflict Style
11. 11Green Mars
    Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993
    step distance 0.2184
    Time StructureConflict Style
12. 12The Calculating Stars
    Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018
    step distance 0.1592
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
13. 13The Snow Queen
    Joan D. Vinge, 1980
    step distance 0.2163
    Conflict StyleProtagonist Fate

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