Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Cold Asylum [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Generations after global annihilation, Kansas is a mutated landscape of dense, deciduous forest. Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the Earth forever. Now it's survival of the freakish.

Following rumors that might lead them to the long-lost Trader, Ryan Cawdor and his band of... Read more

Rider, Reaper [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The red-baked mountains of New Mexico offer a peaceful interlude for Ryan Cawdor and a reunion with Jak Lauren. But in the violent post-holocaust world of Deathlands, survival is a blood-soaked game—and Ryan's idyll becomes a mission of revenge.

The quarry is the General and his band of paramilitary killers. Roving and plundering the Southwest,... Read more

The Last American [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Terenc...

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It has been 100 years since the Soviets conquered the United States and much of the world. Now the scattered Free Cities within the U.S. are about to unite and form a new nation with one goal: to forever drive the hated Soviets from America's shores. And there's only one man who can spearhead this second War of Independence: the Doomsday... Read more

Hellbenders [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born—a tortured testament to a world long gone. Yet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is law, hope is the last refuge of the doomed. For Ryan Cawdor, driven by a warrior's instinct to survive, it's a world... Read more

Fury's Pilgrims [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A bad jump from a near-space Gateway leaves Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists in the devastated heart of the American Midwest. Moving through the ruins in the safety of an abandoned war wag, they discover a small community that was once the sprawling metropolis of Chicago.

The town seems devoid of life, until the first night, when... Read more

Sky Raider [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raw courage and knowledge of the arcane secrets of pre-Dark technology have enabled Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions to live and roam a land tortured—but not destroyed—by apocalyptic madness. In a world where the price of living is paid in flesh and blood, nothing is ever free, not even death.

In Deathlands, power brings more power to... Read more

Pursuit [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Kar...

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Arctic wasteland—and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity living in a tropical paradise surrounded by ice and snow. The community of Icelandic descendants has flourished in seclusion during the long years following the fiery holocaust,... Read more

Encounter [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Mort Shelby, Terenc...

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before the odyssey began... there was the Trader.
Stories of the Trader and his convoy of war wagons endure in the badlands of post-holocaust America. A dealer in Deathlands' most precious commodities—weapons and fuel—Trader takes note of a young Ryan Cawdor. Surrounded in myth and rumor, Trader sets into motion the beginnings of legend at a... Read more

Grim Choices [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the events of Deathlands 131: Freak Pharm and the overthrow of the corrupt pseudo-medical theocracy there, Ryan Cawdor, Krysty Wroth and their fellow companions had decided that the recovering community of Bomville would likely be the safest place to prepare for the eventual birth of Krysty's child, rather than venturing out yet again into... Read more

The Rebellion [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Mic...

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hands bleeding, joints aching, John Rourke watches the remaining space shuttles of the Eden Project fleet land. But what kind of world have they returned to? A Soviet madman bent on world domination, a Nazi resurrection and one of the Eden crew murdered within the first day of the fleet's return.
John Rourke, The Survivalist, must serve as judge,... Read more

Stoneface [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firstorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging between good and evil.

On sacred aboriginal land, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists discover Mount Rushmore... Read more

American Dream Machine [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Nanett...

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly three years have passed since we last saw Ted Rockson. In that time America has finally become free of Soviet Occupation. The war has been won and Rockson can finally live the life that he has only dreamed of. However, that serenity is quickly shattered by one of Rockson's oldest and most feared enemies, General Zhabnov. On a quest for... Read more

The Savage Horde [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Kar...

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is on the move again—searching for a cache of eighty megaton warhead missiles secreted on the New West Coast.
It all begins with a fire fight between Brigands and a unit of U.S. II armed forces, a battle that ends with Rourke, and a seriously... Read more

Ground Zero [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deathlands is a desolate and mute testimony to the aftermath of the nuclear blasts that laid waste the earth. Wayfarers in their blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists search for a better future in the devastated ruins of a once-proud land. The radiation-poisoned hellhole is their home and they are determined to defend... Read more

Crossways [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the twenty-second century emerges from the blight of nuclear damnation, humanity is slowly coming to terms with the bizarre new world of Deathlands, where each new generation holds the promise of renewal and redemption—in men like Ryan Cawdor and his son, Dean.

Ryan Cawdor and companions emerge from a gateway into the ravaged world of the... Read more

Starfall [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, N...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The forbidding world of Deathlands is the legacy of a doomed age. How it came to be—and why—are questions lost in the wreckage of post-apocalyptic reality. Though survival in this stange and surreal new world conspires to crush the human spirit, hope is not dead for Ryan Cawdor's survivalist warriors. But staying alive requires a ready weapon... Read more

The Doomsayer [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Kar...

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is pursuing the trail of his wife and children from whom he was separated when World War III began. As he sets out from his retreat, he meets a beautiful woman scientist, who has learned that the nuclear bombing on the Night of the War has created an... Read more

Sunspot [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the wake of a nuclear Armageddon, the hell scape of Deathlands conspires to torment strong and weak alike, festering most deeply in those who still possess the deepest core of human decency. Now the past lies in the ashes, while the mysteries of the future unfold in the hands of those willing to live each new day in search of hope for... Read more

America's Zero Hour [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Terenc...

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One hundred years after Russia's thermonuclear first strike, the radioactive wasteland that was once America has become a slave state crushed under the iron fist of the Soviet invader. Only a small, fierce group of survivors refuse to submit to the oppressive Red overlords. Led by Ted Rockson, the ultimate soldier of survival, the Freefighters... Read more

Road Wars [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come between them, the odds for getting back together again—for their very survival—are not in their favor.

A cryptic message regarding the long-missing... Read more

Deep Empire [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once an idyllic chain of inlets running from Key Largo to Key West, the Florida Keys have become an isolated universe of grotesquely mutated wildlife and bizarre submarine malformations. Blind seventy-foot sea snakes lurk among the reefs around underwater volcanoes, while typhoons and pirates turn the crystal waters above into a death zone.

But... Read more

Cannibal Moon [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the hostile new world of post-nuclear America, there are many ways to die, but few are clean or quick. Long ago Ryan Cawdor and his band threw in their lot together—to do or die trying. It was a pact sealed in blood, on of selflessness and sacrifice that put a premium on the value of loyalty, friendship and honor—and the blind faith that... Read more

Trader Redux [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ruled by a perverse and malevolent Nature, roamed by lawless remnants of humanity, the Deathlands is what's left of the continental U.S. after a nuclear apocalypse unleashed hell on earth. Here, only a few can survive and still retain hope for the future and of these, none are more determined than the exiled son of a coastal baron and his... Read more

American Nightmare [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Terenc...

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ravaged by WWlll, America is now a brutalized Russian colony, but a loose and secret federation of Free Cities rises up to fight the hated oppressors! Rockson—the Doomsday Warrior leads the American Rebels against the Russian occupation in their most desperate hour and is captured and tortured by the KGB. Escaping into the Western Desert he is... Read more