Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

The Pentworth Trilogy: A BBC Radio Sci-Fi Collection - Abridged

By: James Follett

Narrated by: Nigel Anthony

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A sci-fi trilogy from the author of Earthsearch, read by Nigel Anthony

Best known as the author of the popular space serial Earthsearch, James Follett wrote over 50 radio dramas, 25 novels and a number of TV scripts. This gripping 3-book series, adapted and abridged for BBC Radio and read by Nigel Anthony, explores what takes place when a West... Read more

House of Eternity

By: Marah Woolf

Narrated by: Yesim Meisheit

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eternity wird sterben Die Menschen sind zu verschwenderisch mit ihrer Zeit umgegangen und die Chronisten haben nicht genug davon in Sicherheit bringen können, um Eternitys Untergang zu verhindern. Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Averie Aslanidis ist fest entschlossen, ihre Heimat zu retten, und erkämpft sich einen der begehrten Ausbildungsplätze als... Read more

Avatar

By: Seth Ring

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Avatar is the sixth book in the Tower Series, a GameLit/LitRPG series from Seth Ring, bestselling author of Battle Mage Farmer and the Titan Series, set in the world of Nova Terra and starring the unforgettable Thorn. If you like immersive storytelling, rich fantasy, and epic adventures with a slice of friendship thrown in, you’ll love this... Read more

This Great Hemisphere

By: Mateo Askaripour

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thrilling page-turner.”—Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Wildly imaginative.”—The Washington Post

“Askaripour soars.”—The Boston Globe

A rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible.

This Great Hemisphere is powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N.... Read more

Broken World

By: Clayton Smith

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The apocalypse isn't what it used to be. As the number of resources dwindles, survivors are getting more desperate. People are getting more violent. The world is getting darker.



Dragged away from the Magic Kingdom by the same Red Caps that helped Bloom hunt him down, Patrick Deen comes out of his injury delirium somewhere on the North Carolina... Read more

The Family Experiment

By: John Marrs

Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Clifford Samuel, Eilidh Beaton, ...

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.

Some families are virtually perfect…

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number... Read more

Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh, Nicky Endres, Zoleka Vundla & ...

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

""A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide, and manipulates prose into something like a new language....Toward Eternity recognizes both the building and burning of bridges."" -New York... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Bell

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Anthem" by Ayn Rand is a dystopian novella set in a future society where individuality and personal identity have been eradicated in favor of collectivism. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521, rebels against the oppressive regime that forbids any expression of self or independent thought. Through clandestine experiments and discoveries, he... Read more

Oryx y Crake (Trilogía de MaddAddam 1)

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Una conmovedora historia sobre el último habitante del planeta en un inquietante mundo postapocalíptico. Primera parte de la llamada Trilogía de MaddAddam. Oryx y Crake es una inolvidable historia de amor y una conmovedora imagen de un cercano e inquietante horizonte postapocalíptico. Conocido como Jimmy antes de que el planeta se viese asolado... Read more

The Virtue Season

By: L.M. Nathan

Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The world didn't end all at once but drip by drip...
Manon Pawlak has just turned eighteen - a debutant at the start of The Virtue Season: a process which will result in a match with a suitable genetic mate.

Her best friend, Agatha, has been decommissioned. Her seizures mean that she has been branded with a scar on the crest of her cheek which... Read more

La original

By: Brandon Sanderson & Mary Robinette Kowal

Narrated by: Nuria Mediavilla

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Los ganadores del Premio Hugo, Brandon Sanderson y Mary Robinette Kowal, presentan La original, una novela exclusiva para audiolibro, un thriller de ciencia ficción en el que una mujer lucha por descubrir su propia identidad y sobrevivir a las fuerzas que amenazan su misma existencia. *Incluye MÚSICA y EFECTOS DE SONIDO* En el futuro cercano,... Read more

Briefly, Very Beautiful

By: Roz Dineen

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone all too willingly to serve as a medic in an overseas war. His absence, and Cass's isolation, has brought her into an exhausted but harmonious... Read more

The Failures

By: Benjamin Liar

Narrated by: John Skelley

Length: 26 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the Wanderlands. A vast machine made for reasons unknown, the Wanderlands was broken long ago. First went the sky, splintering and cracking, and then very slowly, the whole machine—the whole world—began to go dark. Meet the Failures. Following the summons of a strange dream, a scattering of adventurers, degenerates, and children find... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Howard Lester

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthem is Ayn Rand’s nightmarish story of a dystopian future world in which individuality does not exist. Every human being is identified by a number, not a name, with the personal pronoun “I” strictly prohibited. The “great WE” serve the collective of mankind from birth to death with no rights or personal freedom. Each life is managed,... Read more

Rechipped: City of Serbia

By: Taya DeVere

Narrated by: Anna Crowe

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The sleepers are waking, one by one. But who is waking them?Jovan and Luna are running out of time. They have only thirty days to make Project Green Gates work, convincing the Chipped to abandon their dying society and return to a more natural way of life. If they don’t succeed, Ef and his team have a plan of their own… a plan that frankly... Read more

The Scarlet Plague

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Kevin Theis

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a gripping journey through a post-apocalyptic world with "The Scarlet Plague" by Jack London, now available as a captivating audiobook. In this chilling tale, London paints a vivid picture of a world devastated by a deadly pandemic, where civilization has collapsed, and humanity fights for survival.As listeners follow the journey of... Read more

Bonding

By: Mariel Franklin

Narrated by: Ellie Kendrick

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'I absolutely loved it. Anyone interested in the relationship between tech, our bodies and our minds should bump it to the top of their queue immediately' - Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud

'This smart, disturbing debut reads like a 19th-century novel of manners for the digital age . . . Franklin has written one of the most stimulating novels I... Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano & The Bell

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Candide, written by Voltaire, is a satirical novella that follows the adventures of its optimistic protagonist, Candide, as he traverses a world filled with hardship and turmoil. Through a series of misfortunes and unlikely events, Candide encounters war, natural disasters, and human cruelty, all of which challenge his unwavering belief in the... Read more

The Long Haul

By: Lena Gibson

Narrated by: Angelina Rocca & Rusty Mewha

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2195, GreenCorps controls the arid western lands of the former United States. They regulate water and sell only terminator seeds-forcing ongoing dependence on the corporation. Elsa has the key to the Doomsday seed bunkers; taking it north to Canada is the only way to ensure its safety. The rebels send help, but her group is betrayed before... Read more

Safe for Now

By: Bob Howard

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Safe for Now is Book 9 in the continuing struggle of the Mud Island Family against the Infected Dead. This is a story of individual determination as well as group efforts to bring mankind back from the brink of extinction.



There had been setbacks to the plans of opening the shelters to more survivors, but the discovery of the shelter in... Read more

Die Welt danach

By: Stefan Krell

Narrated by: Lukas Speitling

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Mann, ein Wunsch, eine menschenleere Welt... Ich bin der letzte verbliebene Mensch. Die Straßen sind verwaist, Stille umfängt mich. Seit diesem Ereignis, das ich "Verschwindibus-Happening" nenne, sind alle anderen weg. Oder gibt es noch mehr Übriggebliebene? Und will ich das überhaupt? Dies ist meine Geschichte... Der neue... Read more

Markless

By: C.G. Malburi

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruti is Markless. In a society where worth is determined by the pattern on your palm and the magic it grants you, this also deems her worthless. But she’s a hardened survivor, a protector of the lowest class … and the most powerful witch in Somanchi. With a single song, she can ask the spirits to grant her unimaginable powers.Dekala’s Mark is... Read more

Arboreality

By: Rebecca Campbell

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story. Arboreality is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.



A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated... Read more

The Last Ant

By: Dawn Blair

Narrated by: Dawn Blair

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The ant scurries on the counter, alone and the only remnant of its poisoned colony. Empathizing with the ant, Natalie ponders putting it out of its misery. As a scientist, she knows her flowcharts point to humankind’s destruction: much like the ants, we polluted our colony too.
Heading up one of a handful of secret labs, Natalie’s mission to save... Read more