TagShadow for (Ian McDonald)

Tags other than "Ian McDonald" applied to these books:
1988 1991 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 anthology Asimov's BSFA nominee BSFA winner David G. Hartwell Donato Giancola Eos Gardner Dozois Gollancz Heather Cooper Hugo Nominee india John Picacio Jonathan Strahan Kathryn Cramer Locus Recommended Reading Locus winner Lou Anders novel novella Philip K. Dick Nominee Philip K. Dick Winner print magazine Pyr science fiction short story single author collection Slawek Wojtowicz space opera Spectra St. Martin's Stephan Martiniere

This space displays a scatterplot of books where similar books are closer together. Color is used to further distinguish groupings.

The "tag cloud" (far left) displays frequency distribution. More frequently used tags receive a larger font.

The "tag shadow" (big box with dots) attempts to capture that frequency distribution in a more visual medium. Try and embrace the "cloud" metaphor and imagine shining a light through the above "tag cloud." Effectively what I've done is shine that light from a whole bunch of different dirrections and found the most interesting shadows. I've then plotted the 2 most useful shadows against each other.

If you click on one of the tags to the left, all the works associated with that tag will be highlighted. Clicking the tag again will toggle the highlighting.

Hover over the points to reveal the book cover.

Book covers click to more info (and tons of links) below.

Drag a box around points to zoom.

Click RESET to zoom out. Or you can double click anywhere on the tagShadow.

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