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Word Count for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
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The word count range for Sci-Fi & Fantasy is 80,000 to 120,000. There are a lot of books that fit nicely into this range, such as Ender's Game with 100,609 words and The Martian with 104,588 words. Here are a few more:

80,000 -
Teleportation Battle by J.F. Wiegand 33,410
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 46,333
The Curmudgeon and the Wormhole by J.F. Wiegand 73,685
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein 84,769
90,000
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 90.016
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater 94,502
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 96,374
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder 98,315
100,000
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 100,609
Ringworld by Larry Niven 102,726
The Martian by Andy Weir 104,588
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. 104,089
110,000 +
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 117,645
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 136,048
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 160,371
Dune by Frank Herbert 181,493