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.
- Stanislaw Lem, 1965Conflict Style score 0.20start
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1944Conflict Style score 0.30step distance 1.4732agrees most onConflict StyleThreat Scale
- Colin Greenland, 1990Conflict Style score 0.35step distance 1.4886Conflict StyleTime Structure
- William Gibson, 1993Conflict Style score 0.38step distance 0.4209Protagonist FatePacing
- William Gibson, 2007Conflict Style score 0.48step distance 0.5141Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
- Octavia E. Butler, 2005Conflict Style score 0.52step distance 0.3963Time StructureProtagonist Fate
- Vernor Vinge, 2006Conflict Style score 0.55step distance 0.3668Threat ScaleTime Structure
- Michael Chabon, 2007Conflict Style score 0.65step distance 0.5564Price TypeThreat Scale
- Jeff VanderMeer, 2014Conflict Style score 0.70step distance 0.4305Time StructureThreat Scale
- Ada Palmer, 2016Conflict Style score 0.75step distance 0.3678Protagonist FatePacing
- Samuel R. Delany, 1984Conflict Style score 0.80step distance 0.3754Price TypeProtagonist Fate
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1944Conflict Style score 0.85step distance 0.2636Protagonist FateThreat Scale