Science Fiction audiobooks

Axiom's End

By: Lindsay Ellis

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn & Stephanie Willis

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.

Truth is a human right.

It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to... Read more

Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.

In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science... Read more

Halo: Silentium

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of the Forerunner Saga trilogy by science fiction legend Greg Bear—set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

One hundred thousand years ago. Chaos rules the final days of the Forerunner empire. The Flood—a horrifying, shape-changing, and unstoppable parasite—has arrived in force, aided... Read more

Off to Be the Wizard

By: Scott Meyer

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An io9 Can’t Miss Science Fiction and Fantasy title.Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little “tweaks” have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he... Read more

Perhaps the Stars

By: Ada Palmer

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 35 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award–shortlisted Terra Ignota series.

World Peace turns into global civil war.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward... Read more

Before We Forget Kindness

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her... Read more

Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Basit Deniau's houses were haunted to begin with.



A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else. But now Deniau's been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect's will:... Read more

Batman: Resurrection

By: John Jackson Miller

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After The Joker’s death, Batman and Gotham City face a mysterious new threat in this direct sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic Batman.
 
The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego,... Read more

Pretties

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.

But... Read more

The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus, Jeremy Bobb, ...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social... Read more

Foundation and Earth

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that... Read more

Sunreach (Skyward Flight: Novella 1)

By: Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read FM's story between Starsight and Cytonic.

When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly,... Read more

Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.”
 —Janet Maslin, New York Times The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the... Read more

Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

Narrated by: Christel Mutombo

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.

Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless... Read more

Daemon

By: Daniel Suarez

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly).

Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also... Read more

We Have Always Been Here

By: Lena Nguyen

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This “claustrophobic and dark” sci-fi thriller debut is “full of twisting ship corridors and unreliable characters” as it explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change (Kirkus Reviews).

Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s madness—or risk succumbing to it herself.

Misanthropic... Read more

The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, read by Daniel de Bourg.

A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.

Named a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post * Amazon * Book Riot * LitHub * Paste Magazine * HuffPost

In the wake of an environmental... Read more

Uglies

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix!

The first installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly... Read more

Dissolution

By: Nicholas Binge

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens, David Thorpe & Joe Eyre

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Suspenseful, provocative and surprisingly tender.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Cleverly weaves together time travel and memory games into a hard-to-put-down thriller. It’s an expertly crafted puzzle of a story.”—NEW SCIENTIST

A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering... Read more

Lockwood & Co., Book 2: The Whispering Skull

By: Jonathan Stroud

Narrated by: Katie Lyons

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies... Read more

Everfair

By: Nisi Shawl

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from... Read more

The Ringworld Engineers

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-to-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.With Louis’ help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers... Read more

Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence

By: Rafal Kosik

Narrated by: Cherami Leigh

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This electrifying novel set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 follows a group of strangers as they discover that the dangers of Night City are all too real. In sparkling Night City, a ragtag group of strangers have just pulled off a heist, robbing a convoy transporting a mysterious container belonging to Militech. The only thing the group has in... Read more

We Lived on the Horizon

By: Erika Swyler

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of the “dazzling” (Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Book of Speculation returns with an engrossing new novel about a bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI as they are drawn into a revolution.

The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to... Read more