Science Fiction audiobooks

Fugitive Telemetry

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.

When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently... Read more

Nemesis Games

By: James S. A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES

A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of... Read more

Caliban's War

By: James S. A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 20 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
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We are not alone.

On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine... Read more

Roadside Picnic

By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

"This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a world listeners will yearn to return to." -AudioFile on A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness... Read more

Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

Narrated by: Sena Bryer

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations--gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named Yiso--are so skilled that listeners may wonder if this is a full-cast production. Complete with time slips, a reality-warping... Read more

Cascade Failure

By: L. M. Sagas

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Torian Brackett contrasts a tranquil delivery of narrative with Jal's wariness, Eoan's mix of coyness and kindness, Saint's façade of crankiness, and Nash's quirky practicality. They're a prickly and heartwarming found family amid the whizbang of outer space."—AudioFile

L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi... Read more

A Game of Thrones

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Roy Dotrice

Length: 33 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
 
Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.

A GAME OF THRONES
 
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in... Read more

Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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

THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
 
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator... Read more

A Storm of Swords

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Roy Dotrice

Length: 47 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.

Here is the third book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.

A STORM OF SWORDS
 
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne,... Read more

The Strange Case of Jane O.

By: Karen Thompson Walker

Narrated by: Jay Myers & Alex Sarrigeorgiou

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love.

A Belletrist Book Club Pick

A year after her child is born, Jane suffers a series of strange... Read more

Old Man's War

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe.

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity... Read more

The Third Rule of Time Travel

By: Philip Fracassi

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime.
Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.
Rule Three: You can only observe.
The rules cannot be broken.
 
In this riveting science fiction novel from acclaimed author Philip Fracassi, a scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel. This is not the story you think you... Read more

Dark Matter (Movie Tie-In)

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+

A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy

“Are you happy with your... Read more

Rabbits

By: Terry Miles

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and... Read more

The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The queen of science fiction’s trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a... Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Ka...

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don... Read more

The Dispossessed

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen KingFrom the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated... Read more

The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Cory Doctorow

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities... Read more

The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves & China Miéville

Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miévill...

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books

“[The Book of Elsewhere is] a pulpy, adrenaline-fueled thriller, but it’s also a moody,... Read more

The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & ...

Narrated by: Daveed Diggs

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Audie Award

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky... Read more

Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo and Nebula award-winning author: "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can" (John Scalzi). Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they... Read more

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

By: Hank Green

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh & Hank Green

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle

In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a... Read more