Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Goddess in the Machine

By: Lora Beth Johnson

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest & Joel Froomkin

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising.

When Andra wakes up, she's drowning.

Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the... Read more

The Gun

By: Daniel Greene

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A new gritty origin short story in the End Time Saga universeA dismembered body in the park …Grand Rapids Detective Bill DeYoung is an old-timer riding it out until retirement. A ravaged body in the park and a drunken witness are about to change his plans; so is the end of the world.The events happen concurrently with the first novel, End Time,... Read more

Failed State

By: Christopher Brown

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Philip K. Dick Award Nominee ""The novel is as tense and thrilling as any of Brown's work, and as full of rage and hope. It's a novel that truly reckons with the enormity of  both our climate emergency and the system that produced it - a tale of  human imperfection and redemption."" -- Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of WalkawayIn this... Read more

The New Wilderness

By: Diane Cook

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post, NPR, and Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize“More than timely, the novel feels timeless, solid, like a forgotten classic recently resurfaced — a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity. But at its core, The New Wilderness is really about motherhood, and about the world we make (or unmake) for... Read more

Day Zero

By: Kelly deVos

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're going through hell . . . keep going.



Seventeen-year-old coder Jinx Marshall grew up spending weekends drilling with her paranoid dad for a doomsday she's sure will never come. She's an expert on self-heating meal rations, Krav Maga and extracting water from a barrel cactus. Now that her parents are divorced, she's ready to relax. Her... Read more

The Hive

By: Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a concept by Jennifer Beals and Tom Jacobson



Cassie McKinney has always believed in the Hive.



Social media used to be out of control, after all. People were torn apart by trolls and doxxers. Even hackers—like Cassie's dad—were powerless against it.



But then the Hive came. A better way to sanction people for what they do online. Cause... Read more

Blood World

By: Chris Mooney

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything changed when scientists discovered the drug. It looked like the cure for aging, but all progress comes with a price tag. Now, eternal youthfulness will be paid for by the blood of the innocent. 

The blood of “carriers” is the most valuable commodity on earth. When treated with a new wonder drug, it cures disease, increases power, and... Read more

Twenty After Midnight

By: Daniel Galera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Christian Barillas & Ramon De Campo

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark and masterful portrait of a generation in crisis, from one of the most exciting young voices in international literature

The world had been theirs in the late 90s: they were the young provocateurs behind a countercultural scene, digital bohemians creating a new future. But fifteen years later, Duke, the leader and undisputed genius of... Read more

The Somebody People

By: Bob Proehl

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities must save a crumbling world from annihilation in this gripping follow-up to The Nobody People.
 
Fahima Deeb changed everything seven years ago when she triggered the Pulse, imbuing millions of people with otherworldly gifts like flight, telekinesis, or superhuman strength. She thought that would... Read more

The War of the Givens

By: Daniel Price

Narrated by: Rich Orlow

Length: 29 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

X-Men meets Blake Crouch in the explosive conclusion to Daniel Price’s genre-bending Silvers trilogy about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from our own...one that is headed for utter destruction.

It's been two years since the world collapsed in a sheet of light, obliterating everything on... Read more

Expiration Date

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ghosts can be caught, bottled, and sold by covert dealers to addicts who inhale the things—and when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles’s occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and get Edison’s powerful ghost for themselves.Aided by Edison’s... Read more

Men like Gods

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple’s trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple’s ideals: a utopian state, free of crime,... Read more

The Heirs of Babylon

By: Glen Cook

Narrated by: Curt Bonnem

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The dystopian politics of 1984 meet the naval warship backdrop of The Last Ship in fantasy master Glen Cook's reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades.



It is 2193, and still the war continues.



Two hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in... Read more

The Trove

By: Tobias S. Buckell

Narrated by: Jennette Selig

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, science fiction adventure based on Treasure Island! Jane Hawkins lives on a floating space port where she tries to help her mothers run a failing inn. Every day she watches starships land from far-off places, bound for exotic adventures. But a new occupant under their roof is about to change everything. His name is Villem Osteonides. More... Read more

The Hierarchies

By: Ros Anderson

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunningly original debut novel that will appeal to readers of The Power or Never Let Me Go, a synthetic woman—created solely to serve her human “Husband”—slowly comes to the realization that her Husband is far less invested in her well-being than she is in his . . . sending her on a harrowing emotional journey of self-realization as she... Read more

El cuento de la criada

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Mercè Montalà, Cristina Mauri, Elisa Beuter & M...

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro de cabecera de una nueva generación. Amparándose en la coartada del terrorismo, unos políticos teócratas se hacen con el poder y, como primera medida, suprimen la libertad de prensa y los derechos de las mujeres. Esta trama, inquietante y oscura, que bien podría encontrarse en cualquier obra actual, pertenece en realidad a esta novela... Read more

Earthquake Weather

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life. But Crane's body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pete and Angelica Sullivan, and their adopted son, Koot Hoomie. Kootie is destined to be the next... Read more

Skyhunter

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Natalie Naudus turns in a blockbuster performance of this riveting saga...Her performance demonstrates how a strong, consistent narrative voice can amplify the intricacies within a text. Fans of Marie Lu will not be disappointed." -- AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator.

A broken world.
An... Read more

Rockfall

By: William Allen

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From out of the clear blue sky, an unknown chunk of rock from the frozen void strikes the Earth with unimaginable force, gouging a wound into the very crust of the planet. Millions die in an instant, and millions more await the end as the looming catastrophe unfolds . . .



Thousands of miles away from the disaster, a call comes in the middle of... Read more

UnBound

By: Neal Shusterman

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Andrew Eiden, Neal Shusterman &...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they've finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman.



Connor Lassiter's fight to bring down Proactive Citizenry and find a suitable alternative to unwinding concluded in... Read more

The Mummy!

By: Jane C. Loudon

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, John Lee, S...

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Published anonymously in three volumes in 1827, when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy! is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that—to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it—is filled with striking similarities to our modern world, including a form of the internet. But it is also filled with... Read more

The Death of the Universe

By: Brandon Q. Morris

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For many billions of years, humans—having conquered the curse of aging—spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet... Read more

Royal Replicas

By: Michael Pierce

Narrated by: Em Eldridge & Cody Roberts

Length: 35 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Princess Amelia is dead . . . and one of you will replace her."



Seventeen-year-old Victoria Sandalwood has served the Duke and Duchess all her life. Over the years, she's learned to make do with what she has and endure her surrogate father's awful punishments. She dreams of escape, but never expected it to come in the form of a message from the... Read more

Ruby & the Huntsman of Midnight

By: Susan EE

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A monster hunter in a castle. Werewolves in a dark forest. And a young woman trapped between the two.



Ruby will do anything to escape the infamous dungeons of Midnight Castle. She dares to dream of reaching the safety of her grandmother's house. But in order to get there, she'll need to outrun hunters and monsters alike through the deadly... Read more