Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Waste Tide

By: Chen Qiufan

Narrated by: Ewan Chung

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world.

Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners.

Mimi is a 'waste girl.’ A member of the lowest caste on... Read more

Infinite Detail

By: Tim Maughan

Narrated by: Joe Sims & Marisa Calin

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.

This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.

BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the... Read more

The Test

By: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The TestBritain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of... Read more

The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the... Read more

The Darkest Legacy

By: Alexandra Bracken

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss the hotly-anticipated new novel in the New York Times bestselling Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken, just in time for the major motion picture adaptation of The Darkest Minds, starring Amandla Stenberg and Mandy Moore! Told through the eyes of beloved character Zu, now seventeen, this harrowing, standalone story of resilience,... Read more

Same Same

By: Peter Mendelsund

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the shifting sands of the desert, near an unnamed metropolis, there is an institute where various fellows come to undertake projects of great significance. But when our sort-of hero, Percy Frobisher, arrives, surrounded by the simulated environment of the glass-enclosed dome of the Institute, his mind goes completely blank. When he spills... Read more

The Rosewater Insurrection

By: Tade Thompson

Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.

All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret.

The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive... Read more

We Can Save Us All

By: Adam Nemett

Narrated by: Adam Nemett

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Nemett's wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." ―Booklist, Starred ReviewWelcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war, climate disasters create a global state of... Read more

Lightburst: The Pastoralist

By: Mike Sheriff

Narrated by: Mike Sheriff

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Lightburst: The Pastoralist is tailor-made for on-the-go listeners who need a quick sci-fi fix!Rosalind’s neocarbon broadsword and chemo gun are all that stand between her defenseless sheep and roaming packs of snarling wolves. Together with her border collie, Sox, she guards the flocks in the ashen pastures of the valley, the only home she’s... Read more

Twisted, A Bitter Harvest Series Book

By: Ann Gimpel

Narrated by: Curt Bonnem

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A runaway spell is the most dangerous weapon of allThe sea is the only life Juan’s ever known—not counting the decade he spent as a Vampire. Those years gave him a healthy aversion for anything supernatural, but he’s a shifter now. It’s way better than being one of the undead, but he still doesn’t trust magic. Paired up with Aura to teach him,... Read more

The Reprisal

By: Kelly St. Clare

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth is nothing like Romy expected. A disappointing fact made clear far too many times.



Over the last year and a half, her world has shattered again and again, along with her sanity, and now Knot 27 is split in two with no sign of reconciliation.




There is no end in sight.




When the leader of their rebel movement steps down, the man Romy loves takes... Read more

The Return

By: Kelly St. Clare

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Three months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside.



Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone.



Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out . . . well, she's not exactly sure what.
The tests must have something to do with the reason she can't remember her knot—the single lucid memory the other insane... Read more

The Retreat

By: Kelly St. Clare

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Keepers of Earth.



One hundred and fifty years ago, global warming brought humankind to the edge of extinction. In a desperate bid for survival, four thousand genetically enhanced soldiers—the last slice of humanity—were sent to eight space stations.



To serve. To protect.



Then the Critamal arrived, uninvited. Waves of aliens now work to break... Read more

Tomorrow's Wrath

By: J.M. Clark

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

After the cleansing of Old World members for the sake of preservation, young Melinda struggles with her warring instincts. Her only friend is a young man named Lonnie, but as the two become more than friends, Lonnie must convince her that going against the Order is going against life itself. When Lonnie rises up in the ranks of a lethal army... Read more

New Kings of Tomorrow

By: J.M. Clark

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago, Jacob lost everything. Just as he was starting to figure out life as a college freshman, his world was suddenly shattered when a devastating illness destroyed the world he once knew and claimed the lives of everyone that mattered to him.



Jacob and the other survivors of the pandemic were transported to the Palace Program. Housed... Read more

The Lost Puzzler

By: Eyal Kless

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly written and ritiving post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity’s future.More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe... Read more

Access Restricted

By: Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping sequel to All Rights Reserved, Speth Jime has freed her home of Portland from the oppressive system that forced everyone to pay for every word they spoke. Now she will discover the cost of that freedom, and the devastating secrets of the world beyond her dome.

On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her... Read more

Hell Divers IV: Wolves

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesThey dive so humanity survives. Now they take to the sea.In the fourth installment of the Hell Divers series, the Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez. After enduring for a decade on the poisoned surface, his survival... Read more

Destroy All Monsters

By: Jeff Jackson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & James Patrick Cronin

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“At some point, I began to think of it as an ancient folk tale. It’s fine work, with a kind of scattered narrative set within a tight frame. Fast-moving throughout―fragile characters who suggest a bleak inner world made in their own collective image.” ―Don DeLilloAn epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered... Read more

The Book of Flora

By: Meg Elison

Narrated by: Shakina Nayfack

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that... Read more

The Kingdom

By: Jess Rothenberg

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A half-android, half-human girl is accused of murder in Jess Rothenberg's tautly-paced YA thriller, The Kingdom, perfect for fans of Westworld and The Lunar Chronicles.

"Wildly addictive and beautifully terrifying... Readers will leave this glittering theme park forgetting what is real and what is fairy tale."— Dhonielle Clayton, New York... Read more

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe

By: Ally Condie

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The fierce new YA novel from Ally Condie, author of the bestselling Matched trilogy

“A compelling, serpentine journey into the heart of grief, the way it can threaten to destroy, and what it looks like to survive.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes
 
“With its wonderful subversion of gender tropes and... Read more

The Rule of Many

By: Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shannon McManus & Marcus Stewart

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to a death sentence in a near-future America, rebellious sisters herald a revolution—if they can survive.Twins Ava and Mira Goodwin defy the Rule of One simply by existing. The single-child law, ruthlessly enforced by Texas’s Governor Roth, has made the sisters famous fugitives and inspirations for the resurgent rebellion known as the... Read more

Modified

By: Harper North

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the sky was deadly?



Fin has never stepped foot on the surface of the Earth. Working the mines, deep below, has been the only life she's ever known. The underground is nothing more than an existence of sweat and monotony in service to the Enhanced Human Coalition—the genetically-modified who control the underground from the world above.... Read more