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.
- Stanislaw Lem, 1965Price Type score 0.30start
- 2DuneFrank Herbert, 1965Price Type score 0.35step distance 1.1572agrees most onTime StructurePacing
- Larry Niven, 1970Price Type score 0.40step distance 0.5535Threat ScalePacing
- Joe Haldeman, 1974Price Type score 0.45step distance 0.3692PacingTime Structure
- China Miéville, 2000Price Type score 0.52step distance 0.5460Time StructurePacing
- William Gibson, 1999Price Type score 0.58step distance 0.4081Conflict StyleTime Structure
- William Gibson, 2007Price Type score 0.62step distance 0.3626PacingTime Structure
- Vernor Vinge, 2006Price Type score 0.65step distance 0.3178Time StructureProtagonist Fate
- Lisa Goldstein, 2003Price Type score 0.72step distance 0.5271Protagonist FateThreat Scale
- Ann Leckie, 2014Price Type score 0.75step distance 0.4028PacingPrice Type
- Ted Chiang, 2019Price Type score 0.80step distance 0.4540Time StructurePacing
- Ted Chiang, 2019Price Type score 0.85step distance 0.3015Protagonist FateTime Structure