Gradient walk
Price Type: Physical → Ideological
Physical 0 → 1 Ideological
12 works, one per band of Price Type, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.
- 1NovaSamuel R. Delany, 1968Price Type score 0.10start
- Philip K. Dick, 1968Price Type score 0.20step distance 1.1247agrees most onTime StructurePacing
- Jynne Martin, 2022Price Type score 0.25step distance 1.2299Price TypeConflict Style
- William Gibson, 1984Price Type score 0.35step distance 0.6306Time StructureProtagonist Fate
- William Gibson, 1986Price Type score 0.40step distance 0.3374Protagonist FateThreat Scale
- Neal Stephenson, 1992Price Type score 0.48step distance 0.5973Threat ScalePacing
- David Brin, 1983Price Type score 0.55step distance 0.4692Time StructureThreat Scale
- Stanislaw Lem, 1965Price Type score 0.68step distance 0.5787Protagonist FateTime Structure
- Ann Leckie, 2014Price Type score 0.75step distance 0.4258Protagonist FateThreat Scale
- Arkady Martine, 2021Price Type score 0.78step distance 0.3457Conflict StylePacing
- Ted Chiang, 2019Price Type score 0.88step distance 0.7147Threat ScalePrice Type
- 12SolarisStanislaw Lem, 1961Price Type score 0.95step distance 0.3348Threat ScaleConflict Style