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.
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 Childhood's End
| 3.96 | 436 reads | ||
 The Martian
| 4.42 | 2,729 reads | ||
 Recursion
| 4.2 | 933 reads | ||
 Some Desperate Glory
| 4 | 142 reads | ||
 Seveneves
| 3.91 | 551 reads | ||
 Alien Clay
| 3.77 | 48 reads | ||
 The Stars My Destination
| 3.84 | 211 reads | ||
 Lock In
| 3.95 | 352 reads | ||
 Project Hail Mary
| 4.45 | 2,638 reads | ||
 The Vanished Birds
| 3.88 | 51 reads | ||
 The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
| 3.6 | 86 reads | ||
 Dead Silence
| 3.76 | 194 reads | ||
 Upgrade
| 3.64 | 446 reads | ||
 The Spare Man
| 3.88 | 83 reads | ||
 The Road to Roswell
| 3.69 | 35 reads | ||
 Last to Leave the Room
| 3.58 | 12 reads | ||
 Where Peace Is Lost
| 3.57 | 11 reads | ||
 Doomsday Book
| 3.82 | 244 reads | ||
 Lady Eve's Last Con
| 4 | 6 reads | ||
 The Sparrow
| 3.97 | 276 reads | ||
 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
| 3.9 | 957 reads | ||
 A World Out of Time
| 3.45 | 26 reads | ||
 Anathem
| 4.14 | 318 reads | ||
 Redshirts
| 3.83 | 595 reads |