FicGemsTop 8 Completed Sci-fi Novels on Royal Road (2026)
Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating
Completed Sci-fi Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.
This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Sublight Drive (Star Wars), The Perfect Run and The Call of the Hollow Men. Every story here is finished, so you can read straight through.
The 8 best Sci-fi novels on Royal Road
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Sublight Drive (Star Wars)
by mirrthIt is twenty-two years before the Battle of Yavin, and the galaxy is at war. Born to a not unimportant, not important planet in the Inner Rim, Rain never placed much thought into his future. After all, the galaxy is vast, and peaceful…
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The Perfect Run
The Perfect Run is now available on Amazon and Audible: Volume 1 (Audiobook), Volume 2 (Audiobook), Volume 3 Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life…
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The Call of the Hollow Men
An experimental AI that he doesn’t remember stealing, thrown an unknown number of years into the future and promptly enslaved, Mat decides that everything sucks, and people still do mean things to one another. But alien life has been…
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Systema Delenda Est
Get it on Amazon Book One: Invading The System When the System came to Earth, technology failed, monsters appeared, and billions died as humans were inducted into the game-like physics the System enforced. Unfortunately for the System…
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Engineer's Odyssey
Vince is on a business trip when aliens announce that Earth is the location for the latest round of some crazy contest. The monsters that start appearing would be enough to deal with, but he's more than a thousand miles from his wife and…
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Magical Girl Platinum
Humanity stands on the brink of destruction. Mutating creatures are attacking. The planetary colonies sit in disrepair, and the fae control magic; the one thing humanity needs to stop their demise. Inheriting magic should have been…
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Superheroes and Magic Invasions [apocalypse litRPG]
by Belial666[completed the October 2022 and April 2023 Writathon ] In the town of Destiny, Florida (not to be confused with Destin, also in Florida), magic portals open and spew out undead horrors. A few lucky survivors discover that killing the…
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Tarnished Honor
What would you consider a bad day? Having your father threaten the family shrine in order to get you to cooperate? Maybe having aliens invade? Well Reina experienced both. On the same day. So when the sky is ripped open, and aliens rain…
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best Sci-fi novel on Royal Road?
Right now Sublight Drive (Star Wars) by mirrth is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.80 out of 5 and 105 chapters. The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald) comes next.
How are these stories ranked?
Stories are ordered by their average reader rating on Royal Road, and the guide is refreshed as ratings change.
Are there completed Sci-fi novels I can binge?
Yes, including Sublight Drive (Star Wars), The Perfect Run and The Call of the Hollow Men.
Where can I read these Sci-fi novels?
Every story is free to read on Royal Road. Open a story's page and use the Read button to go straight to it. FicGems doesn't host any chapters.