16 Best science fiction books like The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

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The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you…

"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spread centuries apart. The Chimp is shackled by its own stupidity, And you, well..."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategies cadged from biology can keep the mutations at bay forever. It was true for us meatsicles cycling through mayfly moments every thousand years; it was just as true for the hardware."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2) by Greg Egan

1. Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

By: Greg Egan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2) book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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2. Ship of Fools

By: Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy fo… read more

Similar categories in Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • space
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3. Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

By: Stephen Baxter

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginn… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Baxter's Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1) book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space

4. Troika

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Troika tells the story of men and women confronting an enigma known as the Matryoshka, a vast alien… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Troika book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

4.16

Format: None pages,

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
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6. Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more

Similar categories in Greg Bear's Blood Music book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"

-Greg Bear, Blood Music

7. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 96 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #96)

By: Ken Liu , Peter Watts , Susan Palwick , Leigh Kennedy , Alethea Kontis , Neil Clarke , Alvaro Zinos-Amaro , Xia Jia , Brendan DuBois , None , J.Y. Yang

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

FICTION "Weather" by Susan Palwick "Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points" by JY Ya… read more

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8. Accelerando

By: Charles Stross

3.72

Format: 640 pages,

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits… read more

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9. Dragon's Egg

By: Robert L. Forward

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them… read more

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10. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

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11. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

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12. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Eversion book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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13. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

Similar categories in qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

Cover of Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

14. Permafrost

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.87

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Permafrost book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1) book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Walking to Aldebaran

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Walking to Aldebaran book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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18. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

Similar categories in qntm's Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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19. The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • artificial intelligence
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spr…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategi…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Cover of Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

20. Summerland

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is … read more

Similar categories in Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland book and Peter Watts's The Freeze-Frame Revolution

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

16 must-read fiction books like The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

Transform Your Habits

Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

Stephen Baxter

4.57

Troika

Alastair Reynolds

3.50

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25 Best fiction books like Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Elder Race

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Transform Your Habits

One Day All This Will Be Yours

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

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