Gradient walk
Protagonist Fate: Victory → Assimilation
Victory 0 → 1 Assimilation
12 works, one per band of Protagonist Fate, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.
- Stanislaw Lem, 1965Protagonist Fate score 0.18start
- Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003Protagonist Fate score 0.25step distance 0.4458agrees most onConflict StyleTime Structure
- David Brin, 1987Protagonist Fate score 0.28step distance 0.5985Protagonist FateConflict Style
- Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018Protagonist Fate score 0.38step distance 0.7293Time StructureThreat Scale
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993Protagonist Fate score 0.42step distance 0.1883Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992Protagonist Fate score 0.52step distance 0.2753Price TypeThreat Scale
- Robert A. Heinlein, 1961Protagonist Fate score 0.55step distance 0.1833PacingPrice Type
- Jeff VanderMeer, 2014Protagonist Fate score 0.65step distance 0.4944Conflict StylePacing
- Jeff VanderMeer, 2014Protagonist Fate score 0.70step distance 0.1596Conflict StylePacing
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020Protagonist Fate score 0.75step distance 0.2990Conflict StylePrice Type
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1953Protagonist Fate score 0.82step distance 0.4613PacingTime Structure
- 121984George Orwell, 1949Protagonist Fate score 0.95step distance 0.3666PacingPrice Type