Science Fiction audiobooks

Red Mars

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 23 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts. For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of... Read more

Cold Storage

By: David Koepp

Narrated by: Rupert Friend

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.""—Douglas Preston, The New York TimesFor readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organismWhen... Read more

Noor

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Délé Ogundiran

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and humanity in a near-future Nigeria.



Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt . . . natural, and that's putting... Read more

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

By: Christopher Paolini

Narrated by: Jennifer Hale

Length: 32 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Jennifer Hale's outstanding performance brings this story of alien invasion to life...Hale's range of differentiation is masterly as she animates all the quirky characters Kira meets. From the rough, snarky slang of ex-military woman to the half-mad musings of a human "ship mind," every unique voice enhances the listening experience."... Read more

Livesuit

By: James S.A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series.Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming something more than human for the duration of a war... Read more

The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

""This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)***A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet... Read more

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Amber Benson, Gabrielle de Cuir, Justine Eyre, ...

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza-known to his friends as Hubert, Etc-was too old to be at that Communist party.But... Read more

A Master of Djinn

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Suehyla] El-Attar expertly creates a vibrant version of Cairo that captures a heady blend of the cosmopolitan and the supernatural that will win many new fans." -- AudioFile Magazine

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn

Cairo,... Read more

Demon in White

By: Christopher Ruocchio

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 30 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alienrace bent on humanity’s destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne.This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on... Read more

Oryx and Crake

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize

Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.

This is Margaret... Read more

Before We Forget Kindness

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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 loved one A boy who wants... Read more

Thud!

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz & Bill Nighy

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Start with Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching satire and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get something like Terry Pratchett’s Thud!” —Wall Street JournalCity Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the... Read more

Annihilation

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award–winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson). This 10th... Read more

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller,...

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles... Read more

Too Like the Lightning

By: Ada Palmer

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 20 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished... Read more

Jurassic Park

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-TimesAn astonishing technique for... 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

Kingdoms of Death

By: Christopher Ruocchio

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 22 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian Marlowe is trapped.For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing.... Read more

Disquiet Gods

By: Christopher Ruocchio

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 31 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.The end is nigh.It has been nearly two hundred years since Hadrian Marlowe assaulted the person of the Emperor and walked away from war. From his Empire. His duty. From the... Read more

Perdido Street Station

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS • A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post)

“[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the... Read more

The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William... 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 as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2024 So Far

As Recommended By: Amazon * LitHub * Gizmodo * New Scientist * LGBTQ Reads * Reactor Magazine *... Read more

Adulthood Rites

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: J.D Jackson

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.

In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race... Read more

Hum

By: Helen Phillips

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot
A Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & Country
A People Book of the Week

From “one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction” (The New York Times), this “tense dystopian thriller” (Time) and “tender... Read more