Science-fiction Books Without Jump Scares

Octavia's Brood

Children of Dune

So long, and thanks for all the fish

The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)

Pretties

Ancillary Sword

The Windup Girl

Mona Lisa Overdrive

The Naked Sun

Use of Weapons

Dune Messiah

La planète des singes

Dragonflight

Ancillary Justice

The Uplift War

Burning Chrome

Endymion

The Dreaming Void

The Speed of Dark

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man)

Breakfast of Champions

Four

The claw of the conciliator