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 0.15start
- Stanislaw Lem, 1965Protagonist Fate score 0.18step distance 0.5391agrees most onTime StructureProtagonist Fate
- Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003Protagonist Fate score 0.25step distance 0.7704Price TypeTime Structure
- Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018Protagonist Fate score 0.38step distance 0.4769Price TypeTime Structure
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993Protagonist Fate score 0.42step distance 0.1592Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Ann Leckie, 2014Protagonist Fate score 0.48step distance 0.2954Time StructurePacing
- Arkady Martine, 2021Protagonist Fate score 0.62step distance 0.3457Conflict StylePacing
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1944Protagonist Fate score 0.65step distance 0.5640Protagonist FateThreat Scale
- Stanislaw Lem, 1971Protagonist Fate score 0.75step distance 0.3832Conflict StylePacing
- Ted Chiang, 2019Protagonist Fate score 0.80step distance 0.2612PacingThreat Scale
- 11SolarisStanislaw Lem, 1961Protagonist Fate score 0.85step distance 0.3348Threat ScaleConflict Style
- Jeff VanderMeer, 2014Protagonist Fate score 0.95step distance 0.2919PacingThreat Scale