Gradient walk
Time Structure: Linear → Fractured
Linear 0 → 1 Fractured
12 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 0.4214agrees most onConflict StylePacing
- Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993Time Structure score 0.22step distance 0.1855Conflict StyleTime Structure
- Joan D. Vinge, 1980Time Structure score 0.28step distance 0.2681Conflict StyleProtagonist Fate
- C. J. Cherryh, 1988Time Structure score 0.35step distance 0.3322Threat ScaleConflict Style
- Michael Chabon, 2007Time Structure score 0.45step distance 0.3981Price TypeConflict Style
- John Brunner, 1968Time Structure score 0.55step distance 0.6320Conflict StylePacing
- Peter Watts, 2006Time Structure score 0.60step distance 0.2360Conflict StylePrice Type
- Ted Chiang, 2019Time Structure score 0.65step distance 0.8524Protagonist FateThreat Scale
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1944Time Structure score 0.75step distance 0.1756Conflict StylePrice Type
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1944Time Structure score 0.85step distance 0.1997Conflict StyleThreat Scale
- Ted Chiang, 2019Time Structure score 0.90step distance 0.1653PacingPrice Type