Gutenberg Fiction Metrics
A metric-based comparison of fantasy and science fiction in Project Gutenberg. Measured as z-scores. Positive means a work does more of something than the typical work; negative, less.
3,585 works in corpus - Last refreshed August 2, 2026 .
Weirdest Works
The most statistically distinctive fiction, ranked by an excess index: for each work, the sum of every metric's z-score beyond ±2. Excludes plays, translations, juvenile fiction, poetry, and works under 10,000 words.
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Vocabulary Overlap
Jaccard overlap of vocabulary. How my fiction compares to other authors. Higher = more shared words.
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