Science Fiction audiobooks

The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, VOX, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE INDEPENDENT, PARADE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND MORE…

“This summer’s hottest debut.”... Read more

Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2)

By: Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrated by: Rong Fu

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
CBC bestseller
USA Today bestseller

Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.

Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

After suffering devastating loss... Read more

Gideon the Ninth

By: Tamsyn Muir

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants.... Read more

Death of the Author

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris D...

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more!“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book ReviewIn this exhilarating... Read more

This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *

“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly... Read more

Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The first science fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of Black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably... Read more

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader’s Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's Women's... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile Magazine

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more

The Midnight Library

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Carey Mulligan

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year

"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post

The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well... Read more

The Wild Robot Escapes

By: Peter Brown

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?

From bestselling and... Read more

Dune

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon...

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would... Read more

All Systems Red

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All Systems Red is the first tense science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina. All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, Mac...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review""Haunting and luminous . . .... Read more

All the Water in the World

By: Eiren Caffall

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.

"Captivating...The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent." —Library Journal (starred)

All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a... Read more

Iron Widow (Book 1)

By: Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrated by: Rong Fu

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
A USA Today bestseller!

Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It... Read more

Harrow the Ninth

By: Tamsyn Muir

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns agalaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s hauntedspace station.Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight anunwinnable war.... Read more

Red Rising

By: Pierce Brown

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."-- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card. " I live for the dream that my children will be born free," she says. " That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father... Read more

The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Joanna Lumley & Jordan Stephens

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller

“An odyssey of action and awe.” —The New York Times

“A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human.” —Benedict Cumberbatch

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide

“What looks like magic is... Read more

Station Eleven

By: Emily St. John Mandel

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one... Read more

Blood Over Bright Haven

By: M. L. Wang

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen.

“Powerful, thought-provoking. . . . Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will find much to admire here, from the intricate magic system to the... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Arina Ii

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*

*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop... Read more

Parable of the Talents

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson, Patricia R. Floyd & Peter J...

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed novels have won numerous awards, and she is a recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Parable of the Talents was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying... Read more

A Closed and Common Orbit

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!A Publishers Weekly ""Best Books of 2017"" pick!Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel!Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award!Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger!Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in... Read more

Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, G...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

"André Santana brings a personable feel to this satirical sci-fi romp.... This audiobook is a fast-paced cocktail of social commentary, humor, and horror." —AudioFile on Straight

Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a... Read more