Gutenberg Fiction Metrics

A metric-based comparison of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in Project Gutenberg. Measured as z-scores. Positive means a work does more of something than the typical work; negative, less.

There are currently 4,655 works in this corpus. The lastest Gutenberg work of speculative fiction arrived on September 7, 2026 .

Weirdest Works

The most statistically distinctive fiction, ranked by excess: for each work, the sum of every metric's z-score beyond ±2. Shorter works are excluded.

Vocabulary Overlap

Jaccard overlap of vocabulary. How my fiction compares to other authors. Higher = more shared words.

Built with dbt, Microsoft Fabric, and Evidence — source on GitHub.