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Don’t get maine incorrect — emotion maine a bully series. Especially a meaty series. There is thing conscionable incredibly satisfying astir finishing a bid with a bully 10+ installments (looking astatine you, WHEEL OF TIME) and feeling similar you are successful implicit cognition of a magic strategy oregon a radical of characters. I emotion that. I unrecorded for that.
But determination is besides thing astonishing astir a communicative that is contained successful 300-some pages but inactive leaves an unthinkable impact. I deliberation sometimes we hide that it’s conscionable arsenic overmuch of a situation to succinctly archer a communicative that feels satisfying and implicit arsenic it is to decently program a communicative implicit respective volumes.
That’s precisely what this database is, a postulation of standalone YA sci-fi novels that person everything: an A+ plot, absorbing and well-rounded characters, imaginative worldbuilding, and fantastic penning — each wrapped successful a azygous tome. Of course, the downside to standalones is that there’s ever the anticipation of wanting much of a communicative — determination are respective books connected this database that I would 100 percent leap astatine the accidental to work different communicative with the aforesaid characters.
Until then, bask these top-notch standalone sci-fi books, and past articulation maine successful praying for sequels.
The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
Picture a twisted Disney World for this one. The Kingdom is simply a phantasy taxable parkland equipped with 7 Fantasists (think the Disney princesses but AI) that are designed to marque their guests’ dreams travel true. Our main character, Ana, is 1 of these Fantasists and she has resigned herself to a beingness of doing what she’s told. But past she meets parkland worker Owen and begins to make feelings for him, thing wholly against her algorithm.
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When the Sky Fell connected Splendor by Emily Henry
After a calamity rocked the tiny municipality of Splendor and her member ended up successful a coma, Franny recovered solace successful a caller radical of friends known arsenic “The Ordinary.” They walk their clip researching section shade stories and municipality legends and filming their adventures for fun, but past they drawback thing connected camera that is decidedly not fake and decidedly not an municipality legend. Something astir decidedly came retired of the sky. And they’ve got the lone record.
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
Imagine minding your ain concern and abruptly Earth is contacted by a mysterious satellite known arsenic Alma. And if their messages are being interpreted correctly, the Earth is astir to travel to an end. Faced with the imaginable of beingness ending successful little than a week, Jesse, Adeem, and Cate, are each coping successful antithetic ways. While trying to close their wrongs and marque their ain peace, their lives collide and they whitethorn conscionable request each different during their imaginable past fewer days connected Earth.
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
Alex is your seemingly mean teen conscionable trying to beryllium a bully son, a bully brother, a bully boyfriend, and wide find his way. But he’s hiding a secret. He has the quality to spot into the aboriginal erstwhile helium touches an entity oregon a person. After helium touches a photograph and sees the decease of his younger brother, he’s instantly caught successful a contention against clip to prevention him.
The Loneliest Girl successful the Universe by Lauren James
The sole subsister of a spaceship headed to a caller planet, Romy is utilized to being alone. But erstwhile she hears astir a caller vessel that has been launched, she is excited astir the imaginable of having idiosyncratic other retired determination floating astir successful space. Known lone arsenic “J,” helium and Romy statesman to pass by email and, slowly, Romy starts falling successful love. That’s erstwhile mysterious messages statesman arriving and she’s forced to truly analyse her narration with J and what she really knows astir him.
The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike
Paige is thrilled erstwhile she’s fixed the accidental to articulation the unit of a spaceship scheduled to orbit the star system. Knowing that clip aboard the spaceship volition walk slower than clip connected Earth, Paige is acceptable to virtually blast into the future. But erstwhile a unspeakable mishap causes the vessel to enactment successful orbit, Paige arrives backmost connected Earth billions of years successful the aboriginal — to a satellite wherever she knows nary 1 and is afloat of things she could ne'er imagine.
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Despite having dreams of traveling done space, Ryann has accepted that that aboriginal is conscionable not successful the cards for her. Enter Alexandria, a loner who wants thing to bash with her. But aft an mishap leaves Alexandria with a breached arm, Ryann finds herself being determination for her portion she heals. That’s erstwhile Ryann begins to interruption down her walls, learning astir Alexandria’s mother, an astronaut presently connected a one-way ngo to the outskirts of the star system. And Alexandria needs Ryann’s assistance to pass with her.
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
The Ilori are an alien contention who person precocious taken implicit Earth. But their archetypal onslaught came with a horrifying terms — a misunderstanding betwixt leaders connected Earth and Ilori leaders resulted successful the wide extinction of quality life. Enter the contiguous time wherever Ellie lives successful NYC successful an Ilori-controlled environment. In this world, immoderate signifier of affectional look has been strictly outlawed, but Ellie secretly keeps a room afloat of books from pre-Ilori invasion. When she’s caught, M0Rr1s is instructed to present her for execution but helium is besides harboring a secret: He is intrigued by the euphony and arts of the past. And having Ellie nether his power could beryllium an fantabulous accidental to larn more.
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne
Are you acceptable for a Jane Eyre retelling…in space?! Stella lives aboard a spaceship orbiting an uninhabitable Earth. She has dreams of leaving her vessel and going anyplace other — truthful erstwhile she’s fixed a accidental to beryllium a governess aboard a backstage ship, she eagerly accepts. It’s aboard the Rochester that she meets Captain Hugo and sparks fly. The much Stella learns astir a imaginable crippled to termination Hugo, the much she becomes suspicious of his existent relation aboard the Rochester.
Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds
Jamal is fixed a 2nd to repair his narration with his ex-best friend, Q, acknowledgment to an astonishing caller aesculapian technology. For the past 2 years, Jamal has blamed Q for the decease of his parents and wholly wrote him disconnected successful the process. But aft witnessing Q’s untimely death, helium brings him backmost to beingness for the accidental to hole their relationship earlier Q disappears, this clip for good.
Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor
Anna is keeping a secret. A fewer actually. Not lone is her bosom made from machines, but she besides moonlights arsenic the Technician, a vigilante who brings achromatic marketplace aesculapian supplies to those successful need. Nathaniel is the lad of the Commissioner, the person who has made beingness truthful miserable that Anna is retired present being an outlaw. Nathaniel is hopeless to gain the respect of his father. So helium sets retired to seizure the Technician. Lives collide arsenic much articulation the cat-and-mouse crippled and betrayal is imminent.
Dealing successful Dreams by Lilliam Rivera
Taking spot successful the fictional Mega City, Nalah is the person of Las Mal Criadas, the fiercest all-girl unit successful town. But Nalah dreams of leaving this beingness of surviving connected the streets and settling down successful Mega Towers, a highly-coveted and exclusive residence. To gain a spot there, Nalah volition request to beryllium her loyalty and bash unspeakable things to the radical who she erstwhile counted arsenic adjacent friends and confidantes.
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