Science-fiction Books Without Jump Scares

Snow Crash

The Mote in God's Eye

The Giver

The Gods Themselves

Unwind (Unwind #1)

Foundation and Earth

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Excession

The Lathe of Heaven

The Beasts of Tarzan (Classic Ace SF, F-203)

Out of the Silent Planet

Wherever Seeds May Fall

Childhood’s End

After London

Midnight Robber

Moving Mars

Perdido Street Station

WWW

Octavia's Brood

The Weird

Drowned worlds

Proxy

Some Desperate Glory

Galactic Derelict