Gradient walk
Time Structure: Linear → Fractured
Linear 0 → 1 Fractured
11 works, one per band of Time Structure, chained for the smoothest structural ascent — each step is the smallest possible shape mutation that still climbs the axis.
- Lisa Goldstein, 2003Time Structure score 0.12start
- Mary Robinette Kowal, 2018Time Structure score 0.18step distance 0.3476agrees most onConflict StylePacing
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993Time Structure score 0.22step distance 0.1592Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992Time Structure score 0.28step distance 0.2367Price TypeThreat Scale
- Robert A. Heinlein, 1961Time Structure score 0.35step distance 0.1658PacingPrice Type
- Michael Chabon, 2007Time Structure score 0.45step distance 0.2854Price TypeProtagonist Fate
- Neil Gaiman, 2001Time Structure score 0.55step distance 0.2472PacingConflict Style
- 8AirGeoff Ryman, 2004Time Structure score 0.65step distance 0.3318Threat ScaleProtagonist Fate
- Ann Leckie, 2013Time Structure score 0.78step distance 0.2611PacingConflict Style
- Gregory Benford, 1980Time Structure score 0.80step distance 0.2512Time StructureProtagonist Fate
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002Time Structure score 0.88step distance 0.3363Conflict StylePacing