It truly is. But that’s not exactly some­thing knew I pulled out of my magic hat. There’s the Small World Project and the Small World Exper­i­ment to prove that. In short, exper­i­ments showed that the aver­age path length for social net­works of peo­ple in the United States is about six. Inter­est­ing stuff but only mildly related to what I’m aim­ing at.

I stum­bled over – mind you, Stum­ble­Upon really sucks – an inter­est­ing site that may prove use­ful to me. It’s some­thing called Literature-Map. Some guys gath­ered some infor­ma­tion on authors and writ­ers and cre­ated an intrigu­ing map because “the closer two writ­ers are, the more likely some­one will like both of them”. Pro­vides a great method to get to know new writ­ers, I guess. At least, it sounds bet­ter than scour­ing dif­fer­ent forums for some recommendations …