Science-fiction Books Without Jump Scares

Childhood’s End

Children of Dune

So long, and thanks for all the fish

Pretties

The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)

Ancillary Sword

The Windup Girl

Dune Messiah

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Use of Weapons

The Naked Sun

La planète des singes

Dragonflight

Ancillary Justice

The Uplift War

Endymion

Burning Chrome

The Dreaming Void

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

The Speed of Dark

Four

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

Breakfast of Champions

Spook Country