Gradient walk
Conflict Style: Western Combat → Kishōtenketsu
Western Combat 0 → 1 Kishōtenketsu
12 works, one per band of Conflict Style, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.
- William Gibson, 2014Conflict Style score 0.15start
- Alastair Reynolds, 2000Conflict Style score 0.20step distance 0.7743agrees most onTime StructureThreat Scale
- William Gibson, 2019Conflict Style score 0.25step distance 0.2378Time StructureThreat Scale
- Joe Haldeman, 1974Conflict Style score 0.35step distance 1.0270Price TypeConflict Style
- Martha Wells, 2020Conflict Style score 0.38step distance 0.5375Time StructureConflict Style
- Alfred Bester, 1953Conflict Style score 0.48step distance 0.3628PacingThreat Scale
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Conflict Style score 0.55step distance 0.5687Conflict StyleProtagonist Fate
- Lisa Goldstein, 2003Conflict Style score 0.62step distance 0.4398Time StructurePrice Type
- William Gibson, 2003Conflict Style score 0.70step distance 0.2741Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
- 10AmmoniteNicola Griffith, 1992Conflict Style score 0.72step distance 0.0951Time StructureThreat Scale
- Ted Chiang, 2002Conflict Style score 0.78step distance 0.4201PacingProtagonist Fate
- Stanislaw Lem, 1971Conflict Style score 0.85step distance 0.3328Protagonist FatePacing