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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's a pretty weird tool. How can Peter Ackroyd - a writer of biography - be compared to an SF writer? Thanks for posting the link, but I'm honestly none the wiser from looking at it.
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The more people like an author and another author, the closer together these two authors will move on the Literature-Map.
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Seems a very dubious assumption. Popular authors are going to end up "close" to a lot of other authors by virtue of being liked by a lot of people.
Ha! And as if to prove it, here's
Stephen King's map. His "closest" author is J.K. Rowling!
(I swear I didn't try that before I wrote the previous paragraph)