Threat Scale: Individual → Systemic

Individual 0 → 1 Systemic

11 works, one per band of Threat Scale, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.

1. 1Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
   Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
   Threat Scale score 0.15
   start
2. 2The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
   Ted Chiang, 2019
   Threat Scale score 0.20
   step distance 0.2281
   agrees most onProtagonist FateConflict Style
3. 3Story of Your Life
   Ted Chiang, 2002
   Threat Scale score 0.30
   step distance 0.3284
   Price TypeConflict Style
4. 4Gateway
   Frederik Pohl, 1977
   Threat Scale score 0.35
   step distance 0.1888
   PacingProtagonist Fate
5. 5Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI
   Stanislaw Lem, 1971
   Threat Scale score 0.40
   step distance 0.4885
   PacingPrice Type
6. 6The Sparrow
   Mary Doria Russell, 1996
   Threat Scale score 0.55
   step distance 0.3373
   Conflict StylePacing
7. 7The Separation
   Christopher Priest, 2002
   Threat Scale score 0.65
   step distance 0.2373
   Price TypeProtagonist Fate
8. 8Exhalation
   Ted Chiang, 2019
   Threat Scale score 0.75
   step distance 0.4243
   Conflict StyleTime Structure
9. 9Stories of Your Life and Others
   Ted Chiang, 2002
   Threat Scale score 0.80
   step distance 0.1568
   PacingPrice Type
10. 10Solaris
    Stanislaw Lem, 1961
    Threat Scale score 0.90
    step distance 0.3061
    Conflict StylePrice Type
11. 11Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
    Samuel R. Delany, 1984
    Threat Scale score 0.95
    step distance 0.1886
    Conflict StylePacing

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