Methodfield now has 46 published methods. This Fiction Lab release takes fifteen methods added after the original thirty-method catalogue and uses each to ask a new question of a book already analysed in the lab. These are separate articles: the method and management claim differ from the existing book page.
Each study keeps the Fiction Lab sequence visible: a verified public premise, an editorial thesis, the five-part system map, a practical method application, failure mode, ethical cost, limits of the analogy and a discussion question. The new illustrations depict abstract mechanisms; they do not reproduce covers or scenes.
Explore the new studies
- Foundation × Theory of Change — test the causal path behind a lasting mission.
- Dune × Wardley Mapping — reveal the dependencies beneath strategic power.
- Red Mars × Stakeholder Mapping — ask who gets to define progress.
- Hyperion × Causal Loop Diagramming — trace feedback behind fragmented accounts.
- Mission of Gravity × SIPOC — define the process boundary between unequal partners.
- Needle × Bow-Tie Analysis — protect trust around an embedded agent.
- Jurassic Park × Premortem — imagine a failed launch before opening day.
- The Player of Games × Balanced Scorecard — challenge a single score that governs people.
- Blindsight × Cynefin Framework — choose a response mode under deep uncertainty.
- The Dark Forest × RACI Matrix — assign decisions when secrecy and accountability collide.
- Seveneves × Critical Path Method — find the work that determines the deadline.
- The Invincible × A3 Problem Solving — diagnose before escalating.
- The Martian × Kanban — make survival work and blocked capacity visible.
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects × Service Blueprint — identify who maintains long-term care.
- The Dispossessed × ADKAR — see why shared ideals do not guarantee ability to change.
The knowledge map now connects every article to its book and method. Each book page also offers its new method study. Start with the Fiction Lab library or the method catalogue.