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. 1The Fifth Sally (A) or Trurl's Prescription
   Stanislaw Lem, 1965
   Protagonist Fate score 0.18
   start
2. 2Paladin of Souls
   Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003
   Protagonist Fate score 0.25
   step distance 0.4396
   agrees most onConflict StyleTime Structure
3. 3The Uplift War
   David Brin, 1987
   Protagonist Fate score 0.28
   step distance 0.5929
   Protagonist FateConflict Style
4. 4The Calculating Stars
   Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018
   Protagonist Fate score 0.38
   step distance 0.7164
   Time StructureThreat Scale
5. 5Green Mars
   Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993
   Protagonist Fate score 0.42
   step distance 0.1855
   Conflict StyleTime Structure
6. 6Adulthood Rites
   Octavia E. Butler, 1988
   Protagonist Fate score 0.52
   step distance 0.3682
   Time StructurePacing
7. 7Stranger in a Strange Land
   Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
   Protagonist Fate score 0.55
   step distance 0.3887
   PacingConflict Style
8. 8Annihilation
   Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
   Protagonist Fate score 0.65
   step distance 0.4883
   Conflict StylePacing
9. 9Authority
   Jeff VanderMeer, 2014
   Protagonist Fate score 0.70
   step distance 0.1577
   Conflict StylePacing
10. 10The Ministry for the Future
    Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020
    Protagonist Fate score 0.75
    step distance 0.2981
    Conflict StylePrice Type
11. 11Childhood's End
    Arthur C. Clarke, 1953
    Protagonist Fate score 0.82
    step distance 0.4575
    PacingTime Structure
12. 121984
    George Orwell, 1949
    Protagonist Fate score 0.95
    step distance 0.3611
    PacingPrice Type

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