Science Fiction audiobooks

A Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 3

By: Manly Wade Wellman, Wallace West & Murray Leinster

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas, the science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s were writing some of the hippest genre literature of the era. Here are three imaginative novellas from some of these pioneers of pulp science fiction.Giants from Eternity by Manly Wade WellmanYoung scientists Oliver Norfleet and his college buddy,... Read more

The Return

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Putting them to use, he... Read more

The Winds of Dune

By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.

Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and... Read more

A Princess of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex–Confederate Army captain John Carter finds himself suddenly and unwittingly transported to Mars while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians whose culture is based on the ability to fight for their race. Captured by the savage green men of Thark, John discovers that the gravitational difference... Read more

The Sunless Countries

By: Karl Schroeder

Narrated by: Joyce Irvine & David Thorn

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunless Countries is the fourth novel in the Virga series of hard science fiction space opera adventures

In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And... Read more

Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

By: Peter Ling

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ‘nowhere’. But the crisis is far from over, and when the time-machine’s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of... Read more

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors Of Death (TV Soundtrack)

By: David Whitaker

Narrated by: Caroline John, Full Cast & Jon Pertwee

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven months after it left the red planet, Mars Probe 7 still hasn't returned to Earth. The Doctor and Liz Shaw join the investigation as a second capsule, Recovery 7, is sent to discover what has happened. But when it returns, something is terribly wrong with its three astronauts... The space-suited figures are kidnapped and Brigadier... Read more

Torchwood: The Dead Line

By: Phil Ford

Narrated by: Eve Myles, Full Cast, Gareth David-Lloyd & John...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Cardiff hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the... Read more

Torchwood: Golden Age

By: James Goss

Narrated by: Eve Myles, Full Cast, Gareth David-Lloyd & John...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On the trail of a dangerous energy field, Torchwood are led to Delhi. There they witness the simultaneous disappearance of hundreds of people, and Jack discovers that the field centres on an old colonial mansion - Torchwood India. Jack is shocked to find that Torchwood India is still going strong - he shut it down himself over 80 years ago.... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Full Cast, Robert Glenister & William Gaunt

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life. It... Read more

Perry Rhodan 2502: Im Museumsraumer

By: Christian Montillon

Narrated by: Tom Jacobs

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Vierte Hyperdepression - die Frequenz-Monarchie will herrschen Auf der Erde und den zahlreichen Planeten in der Milchstraße, auf denen Menschen leben, schreibt man das Jahr 1463 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung - das entspricht dem Jahr 5050 christlicher Zeitrechnung. Seit über hundert Jahren herrscht in der Galaxis weitestgehend Frieden:... Read more

Perry Rhodan 2501: Die Frequenz-Monarchie

By: Christian Montillon

Narrated by: Renier Baaken

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Einladung nach Markanu - es geht in die Endlose Stadt Auf der Erde und den zahlreichen Planeten in der Milchstraße, auf denen Menschen leben, schreibt man das Jahr 1463 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung - das entspricht dem Jahr 5050 christlicher Zeitrechnung. Seit über hundert Jahren herrscht in der Galaxis weitestgehend Frieden: Die... Read more

Valor's Trial

By: Tanya Huff

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She has survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive—than anyone else in the Corps.

Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all... Read more

Counting Heads

By: David Marusek

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 20 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut novel from highly regarded short-story author David Marusek, Counting Heads pushes the limits of the genre. Life in the year 2134 is nearly perfect, with nanotechnology and medical science granting people near-immortality. But when Sam Harger is flagged as a terrorist, his powerful wife dies in a plane crash, and his daughter's... Read more

Iron Sunrise

By: Charles Stross

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Charles Stross’ novels have garnered numerous awards and nominations, including several Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award selections. In Iron Sunrise, a godlike future-being known as the Eschaton has enabled humans to achieve interstellar colonization and near speed-of-light travel.Just before planet Moscow is vaporized by an... Read more

Brightness Reef

By: David Brin

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 25 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

David Brin, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Sundiver, crafts Brightness Reef, a luminous gem of SF literature. Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is... Read more

Millennium Rising

By: Jane Jensen

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 19 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Right after the millennium, pilgrims of all faiths flock to the Mexican village of Santa Pelagia to witness a miraculous visitation. Among them are twenty-four who experience their own startling personal vision. A messenger appears differently to each - as the Virgin Mary, an angel of Islam, the Hindu goddess Kali - but carries the same... Read more

The Fabulous Riverboat

By: Philip José Farmer

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet—and at... Read more

Perry Rhodan 2500: Projekt Saturn

By: Frank Borsch

Narrated by: Josef Tratnik

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie öffnen das Tor zu den Sternen - die Frequenz-Monarchie wird ihr Gegner Auf der Erde und den zahlreichen Planeten in der Milchstraße, auf denen Menschen leben, schreibt man das Jahr 1463 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung - das entspricht dem Jahr 5050 christlicher Zeitrechnung. Seit über hundert Jahren herrscht in der Galaxis weitestgehend... 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

Haze

By: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What lies beneath the millions of orbiting nanotech satellites that shroud the world called Haze? Major Keir Roget's mission is to make planetfall in secret, find out, and report back to his superiors in the Federation, the Chinese-dominated government that rules Earth and the colonized planets.



For all his effectiveness as a security agent,... Read more

Perry Rhodan 2499: Das Opfer

By: Uwe Anton

Narrated by: Renier Baaken

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Kampf zwischen Mensch und Superintelligenz - Rhodan muss sich entscheiden Über dreieinhalb Jahre währte der verzweifelte Kampf Perry Rhodans gegen die Entstehung einer Negasphäre in direkter Nachbarschaft der Milchstraße. Eine Negasphäre ist eine Brutstätte des Chaos und wird von Millionen Einheiten der Terminalen Kolonne TRAITOR bewacht.... Read more

Moonrise

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 18 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a future of astonishing possibilities waiting on a lifeless world of surprising contrasts, where sub-frigid darkness abuts the blood-boiling light—a future threatened by greed and jealousy, insanity and murder.A twenty-first-century US aerospace company has developed the first permanent human settlement on the moon. The settlement is... Read more

By Heresies Distressed

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 41 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In David Weber's By Heresies Distressed, the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.

The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire,... Read more