Prompts

What are your favorite standalone Sci-Fi novels?

Sometimes you just want a complete story where everything's cleaned up at the end and there's no need to read the next 2 or 3 or sometimes more books. They could be classic or modern, but I'm looking for books that are undeniably sci-fi.

Childhood's End

1953 • 831 Readers • 212 pages 4

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 3,724 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Recursion

2005 • 1,818 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 403 Readers • 448 pages 4

Seveneves

2015 • 1,030 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

Alien Clay

2024 • 148 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

The Stars My Destination

1955 • 440 Readers • 278 pages 3.8

Lock In

#1 of 2 in Lock In

2001 • 577 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 4,545 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

The Vanished Birds

2020 • 243 Readers • 391 pages 3.9

Dead Silence

2022 • 493 Readers • 343 pages 3.8

Upgrade

2022 • 844 Readers • 337 pages 3.6

The Spare Man

2021 • 201 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

The Road to Roswell

2023 • 81 Readers • 399 pages 3.7

Last to Leave the Room

2023 • 87 Readers • 320 pages 3.6

Where Peace Is Lost

2023 • 28 Readers • 390 pages 3.6

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

1992 • 504 Readers • 593 pages 3.8

Lady Eve's Last Con

2024 • 18 Readers • 368 pages 4

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 627 Readers • 515 pages 4

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15 World War Z

2006 • 1,364 Readers • 5h 59m 3.9

A World Out of Time

#1 of 3 in The State

1976 • 45 Readers • 246 pages 3.4

Anathem

2008 • 722 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.1

Redshirts

2012 • 841 Readers • 318 pages 3.8