Science Fiction audiobooks

The Rolling Stones

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Heinlein's best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family as they tour the solar system.It doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who's... Read more

CyberStorm

By: Matthew Mather

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York goes dark in the dead of winter…A terrifying mystery begins…But who is the enemy?Sometimes the worst storms aren’t from Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren’t the ones in our heads.Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them... Read more

Ancient Rising

By: J. C. De La Torre

Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A widower is set off on an amazing adventure by a man claiming to be a god in this epic fantasy tale that reads like Indiana Jones meets Clash of the Titans. Follow Dan Ryan through Egypt, Greece, and the Mexican jungle as he unlocks the keys to finding the lost continent of Atlantis and the gods imprisoned there.Eight years after its initial... Read more

Transhuman

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben BovaLuke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4... Read more

The Culling

By: Robert Johnson

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world's population—some 4.5 billion people—by releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earth's population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the... Read more

Nightwings

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Silverberg's enduring classic about one man's journey to find salvation for a planet on the brink of destruction."Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in one of the earlier cycles. I knew nothing of that, for my guild was Watching, not Remembering."For a thousand years, mankind has lived under the threat... Read more

Wastelands

By: John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethe...

Narrated by: various narrators, Susan Hanfield, Paul Boehmer...

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and... Read more

Night Ride, and Other Journeys

By: Charles Beaumont

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantasticThe stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for... Read more

The Boy in His Winter

By: Norman Lock

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's promises to the freed slaves, the crushing... Read more

Storms of Victory

By: Jerry Pournelle & Roland Green

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The adventure begun in Janissaries continues.Kidnapped from Earth as they were about to die in battle, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries, like the other human slaves on the planet Tran, will not be missed. Subjects of the Shalnuksi slave masters, they are forced to harvest the priceless drug surinomaz. Now, even as slaves, Earth's... Read more

Clan and Crown

By: Jerry Pournelle & Roland Green

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human—but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.Rick has faced facts: this... Read more

Homeland

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarilydetained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack onSan Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the wholemovement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against thetyrannical security state.A... Read more

Lightning Fall

By: Bill Quick

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 18 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Three terrorist attacks are launched from freighters against the United States. Only one fully succeeds, but in the blink of an eye all of the country west of the Rocky Mountains is transformed into the technological equivalent of the eighteenth century—no electricity, no computers, no electronics of any kind, or any of the amenities of modern... Read more

Go Big or Go Home

By: Will Hobbs

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever! Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in... Read more

Antidote Man

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An old man dying of cancer has just become the perfect test subject for an alien race seeking to exterminate mankind. Their goal: create a mutant viral strain impervious to cures. As part of their experiments, the aliens have perfected brain transplants, allowing them to place the old man's brain in a new body, infect it with every possible... Read more

Planet out of the Past

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Char, Weddy, and Nuell are excited over their discovery on the strange planet Pleisto but also terrified, for the leader of their expedition, Professor Joher, has disappeared. Nuell and Weddy, Joher' children, are concerned for his safety, while Char, his research assistant, feels not only worried but responsible for all of them. He realizes... Read more

Great Classic Science Fiction

By: various authors, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinba...

Narrated by: various narrators, Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenbl...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories: "The Door in the Wall" by H. G. Wells—A man must... Read more

Gun, with Occasional Music

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems—not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all... Read more

Quantico

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists, and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. The War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate. Now the FBI has been dispatched to... Read more

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma

By: Brian Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel about saving the environment through totalitarian repression—by Frank Herbert's son Brian.A revolution has taken over the government of the United States, and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes at a great cost. The United States is ruled by... Read more

Martians, Go Home

By: Fredric Brown

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Martians, Go Home, originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells the story of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. These Martians haven't come to Earth to harm anyone—just to annoy people. Unable to touch the physical world, or be touched by it, they take great... Read more

The Old Gods Waken

By: Manly Wade Wellman

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Silver John novelIn the wilds of Southern Appalachia lies Wolter Mountain—a sacred place for the Indians and their predecessors. But the land atop the mountain, taken over by two Englishmen, Brummitt and Hooper Voth, is undergoing frightening changes. Read more

New Frontiers

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cui...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of... Read more

Future Crime

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting collection of SF stories by Hugo Award–winning author Ben BovaNo matter what strange forms the future takes, says Ben Bova in his introduction, crime and criminals will always be with us—and with them, the need for law enforcement. Included in this collection of short stories are the full-length novel City of Darkness and... Read more