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
Childhood's End
Recursion
Some Desperate Glory
Seveneves
Redshirts
The Stars My Destination
Lock in
Project Hail Mary
The Vanished Birds
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
Dead Silence
Upgrade
The Spare Man
The Road to Roswell
Last to Leave the Room
Where Peace Is Lost
Alien Clay
Doomsday Book
Lady Eve's Last Con
The Sparrow
World War Z
A World Out of Time
Anathem