7 Best hard science fiction books like Instantiation by Greg Egan

Cover of Instantiation by Greg Egan

Instantiation

By: Greg Egan

4.09

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg…

"-“I’ve never believed in wormholes,"

-Greg Egan, Instantiation

"-“I’ve never believed in wormholes,"

-Greg Egan, Instantiation

If you liked the hard science fiction plot in Instantiation by Greg Egan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

2. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

By: Ray Kurzweil

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering th… read more

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Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

3. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • science fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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4. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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5. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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6. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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7. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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8. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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9. 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 Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

10. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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11. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"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

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12. 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 Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
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13. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm

14. 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 Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • hard science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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15. Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.30

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingl… read more

Similar categories in Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2) book and Greg Egan's Instantiation

  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Underneath the drones, the pedestrians and board riders along Plough Lane had stopped to look around in confusion as power and digital connectivity was taken from them—basic human rights since before…"

-Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation Lost (Salvation Sequence, #2)

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16. The Saints of Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #3)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.39

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4) by Baoshu

17. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)

By: Baoshu

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Fifth Science

By: Exurb1a

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing … read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Distance appears to only apply when the universe knows She is being watched."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Go home and write me, tell me how it was, leave a review. Go home, you bunch of absolute, absolute oxygen thieves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Adam laid in the dark for a long time, thinking and not thinking. Thinking in an indirect way in the fashion one knows the sun is there without having to look straight at the thing."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

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19. Fine Structure

By: qntm

4.07

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Fledgling physicist Ching-Yu Kuang has discovered a Rosetta Stone for all of physics, a treasure tr… read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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20. Instantiation

By: Greg Egan

4.09

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg… read more

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  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • artificial intelligence
  • hard science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"-“I’ve never believed in wormholes,"

-Greg Egan, Instantiation

Cover of Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5) by James S.A. Corey

21. Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.45

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

20 best-selling fiction books like Instantiation by Greg Egan

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

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Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Veronica Roth

3.86

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

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The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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