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.

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 2,750 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Childhood's End

1953 • 619 Readers • 212 pages 4

Recursion

2005 • 1,360 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 294 Readers • 438 pages 4

Seveneves

2015 • 761 Readers • 880 pages 3.9

Redshirts

2012 • 612 Readers • 318 pages 3.9

The Stars My Destination

1955 • 332 Readers • 278 pages 3.9

Lock in

#1 of 2 in Lock In

2014 • 436 Readers 4

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 3,263 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

The Vanished Birds

2020 • 181 Readers • 391 pages 4

Dead Silence

2022 • 375 Readers • 343 pages 3.7

Upgrade

2022 • 635 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

The Spare Man

2021 • 151 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

The Road to Roswell

2023 • 60 Readers • 399 pages 4

Last to Leave the Room

2023 • 66 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

Where Peace Is Lost

2023 • 19 Readers 4.3

Alien Clay

2024 • 73 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

1992 • 381 Readers • 587 pages 3.8

Lady Eve's Last Con

2024 • 11 Readers • 368 pages 4

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 490 Readers • 515 pages 4

World War Z

World War Z

2006 • 1,030 Readers • 355 pages 3.9

A World Out of Time

#1 of 3 in The State

1976 • 31 Readers • 246 pages 3.6

Anathem

2008 • 527 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.2