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.

  1. Stanislaw Lem, 1965
    Protagonist Fate score 0.18
    start
  2. Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003
    Protagonist Fate score 0.25
    step distance 0.4458
    agrees most onConflict StyleTime Structure
  3. David Brin, 1987
    Protagonist Fate score 0.28
    step distance 0.5985
    Protagonist FateConflict Style
  4. Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018
    Protagonist Fate score 0.38
    step distance 0.7293
    Time StructureThreat Scale
  5. Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993
    Protagonist Fate score 0.42
    step distance 0.1883
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
  6. Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992
    Protagonist Fate score 0.52
    step distance 0.2753
    Price TypeThreat Scale
  7. Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
    Protagonist Fate score 0.55
    step distance 0.1833
    PacingPrice Type
  8. Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
    Protagonist Fate score 0.65
    step distance 0.4944
    Conflict StylePacing
  9. Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
    Protagonist Fate score 0.70
    step distance 0.1596
    Conflict StylePacing
  10. Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020
    Protagonist Fate score 0.75
    step distance 0.2990
    Conflict StylePrice Type
  11. Arthur C. Clarke, 1953
    Protagonist Fate score 0.82
    step distance 0.4613
    PacingTime Structure
  12. George Orwell, 1949
    Protagonist Fate score 0.95
    step distance 0.3666
    PacingPrice Type

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