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 0.4265agrees most onConflict StylePacing
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993Time Structure score 0.22step distance 0.1883Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1992Time Structure score 0.28step distance 0.2753Price TypeThreat Scale
- Robert A. Heinlein, 1961Time Structure score 0.35step distance 0.1833PacingPrice Type
- Michael Chabon, 2007Time Structure score 0.45step distance 0.3320Price TypeProtagonist Fate
- Neil Gaiman, 2001Time Structure score 0.55step distance 0.2935PacingConflict Style
- Isaac Asimov, 1950Time Structure score 0.65step distance 0.3776Protagonist FatePacing
- Isaac Asimov, 1972Time Structure score 0.75step distance 0.4344Protagonist FateConflict Style
- Gregory Benford, 1980Time Structure score 0.80step distance 0.2666Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002Time Structure score 0.88step distance 0.3901Conflict StylePacing