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 0.1431
   agrees most onPacingPrice Type
3. 3The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
   Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
   step distance 0.3743
   Conflict StyleTime Structure
4. 4Forever Peace
   Joe Haldeman, 1997
   step distance 0.2893
   Time StructurePrice Type
5. 5Perhaps the Stars
   Ada Palmer, 2021
   step distance 0.3102
   Conflict StylePacing
6. 6Nova
   Samuel R. Delany, 1968
   step distance 0.3805
   Conflict StylePrice Type
7. 7Lord of Light
   Roger Zelazny, 1967
   step distance 0.3456
   Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
8. 8Agency
   William Gibson, 2019
   step distance 0.4083
   Price TypeConflict Style
9. 9The Peripheral
   William Gibson, 2014
   step distance 0.3781
   Conflict StylePacing
10. 10Starship Troopers
    Robert A. Heinlein, 1959
    step distance 0.4310
    PacingTime Structure
11. 11Take Back Plenty
    Colin Greenland, 1990
    step distance 0.4556
    Conflict StylePrice Type
12. 12Virtual Light
    William Gibson, 1993
    step distance 0.4209
    Protagonist FatePacing
13. 13Network Effect
    Martha Wells, 2020
    step distance 0.3059
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale

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