Threat Scale: Individual → Systemic

Individual 0 → 1 Systemic

12 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. 1Les Robinsonades
   Stanislaw Lem, 1971
   Threat Scale score 0.15
   start
2. 2Idiota
   Stanislaw Lem, 1971
   Threat Scale score 0.20
   step distance 0.4839
   agrees most onConflict StylePrice Type
3. 3Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
   Ted Chiang, 2019
   Threat Scale score 0.30
   step distance 0.4350
   Time StructurePacing
4. 4Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
   Ted Chiang, 2019
   Threat Scale score 0.32
   step distance 0.3000
   Threat ScaleTime Structure
5. 5Idoru
   William Gibson, 1996
   Threat Scale score 0.45
   step distance 0.8719
   Time StructurePrice Type
6. 6Spook Country
   William Gibson, 2007
   Threat Scale score 0.48
   step distance 0.3577
   Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
7. 7The Demolished Man
   Alfred Bester, 1953
   Threat Scale score 0.60
   step distance 0.3716
   Conflict StyleTime Structure
8. 8All Tomorrow's Parties
   William Gibson, 1999
   Threat Scale score 0.62
   step distance 0.3554
   Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
9. 9Ender's Game
   Orson Scott Card, 1985
   Threat Scale score 0.75
   step distance 0.3076
   Time StructureProtagonist Fate
10. 10Startide Rising
    David Brin, 1983
    Threat Scale score 0.82
    step distance 0.1433
    PacingPrice Type
11. 11The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
    Threat Scale score 0.88
    step distance 0.3819
    Conflict StyleTime Structure
12. 12Forever Peace
    Joe Haldeman, 1997
    Threat Scale score 0.92
    step distance 0.2927
    Time StructurePrice Type

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