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.

1. 1Dune
   Frank Herbert, 1965
   Price Type score 0.35
   start
2. 2Ringworld
   Larry Niven, 1970
   Price Type score 0.40
   step distance 0.5457
   agrees most onThreat ScalePacing
3. 3The Forever War
   Joe Haldeman, 1974
   Price Type score 0.45
   step distance 0.3663
   PacingTime Structure
4. 4Snow Crash
   Neal Stephenson, 1992
   Price Type score 0.48
   step distance 0.5138
   Time StructureConflict Style
5. 5Startide Rising
   David Brin, 1983
   Price Type score 0.55
   step distance 0.5820
   Time StructureThreat Scale
6. 6Forever Peace
   Joe Haldeman, 1997
   Price Type score 0.60
   step distance 0.4992
   Protagonist FateTime Structure
7. 7Green Mars
   Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993
   Price Type score 0.65
   step distance 0.5164
   Time StructureProtagonist Fate
8. 8Speaker for the Dead
   Orson Scott Card, 1986
   Price Type score 0.70
   step distance 0.4713
   Threat ScalePacing
9. 9Air
   Geoff Ryman, 2004
   Price Type score 0.75
   step distance 0.4148
   Conflict StylePacing
10. 10Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
    Samuel R. Delany, 1984
    Price Type score 0.80
    step distance 0.5432
    Threat ScaleConflict Style
11. 11The Library of Babel
    Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
    Price Type score 0.85
    step distance 0.5191
    Time StructurePrice Type
12. 12A Perfect Vacuum
    Stanislaw Lem, 1971
    Price Type score 0.95
    step distance 0.5040
    Conflict StyleThreat Scale

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