Science Fiction audiobooks

Off Armageddon Reef

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 29 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold... Read more

The War Of The Worlds (Classic Radio Sci-Fi)

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Anthony Jackson, Full Cast, Martin Jarvis, Paul...

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'They came in cylinders as dreaded falling stars; they were the ultimate killing machines...' When a Martian spacecraft crash-lands near Woking, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules that stalk the countryside on three legs. The frightening machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties with their heat-rays, and... Read more

The Sky People

By: S. M. Stirling

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life—even human life. At that point, the "Space Race" became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.



Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the... Read more

The Invisible Man/The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Two novellas by the incomparable H.G. Wells: First, The Invisible Man - A scientist theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally... Read more

The Will of the Empress

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Tamora Pierce

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tamora Pierce returns to the world of Circle of Magic for this smashing novel that brings the four young mages back together as teens. Suspense! Court intrigue! Romance! Fights! All the things that you love about Tammy’s books are here in abundance. Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.In a nightmarish, ruined... Read more

Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell

By: Pat Murphy

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Cruise into murder, mayhem, and alternate realities. Award-winning author Pat Murphy takes us aboard a luxury cruise ship and into the strange confluence of time and space known as the Bermuda Triangle.Susan Galina and her friend Pat are relaxing on a luxury cruise ship heading from New York to Europe via Bermuda. Trouble begins when one of the... Read more

The Quantum Rose

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Quantum Roseis the story of Kamoj Argali, the young ruler of an impoverished province on the backward planet Balumil. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of the prosperous neighboring province. But before they can be wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet arrives on... Read more

Prodigy

By: Dave Kalstein

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 2036, the world’s best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education—and developmental drug regimen—available. Graduates go on to dominate in all the top colleges, Forbes 500 companies, and government positions.But when... Read more

Out of the Silent Planet

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (also known as the Cosmic or Space Trilogy), which is considered his chief contribution to science fiction. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for... Read more

Midnight on the Moon

By: Mary Pope Osborne

Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!

Three …two…one…BLAST OFF! The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the moon—and the future. Their mission? To find the last "M" thing that will free Morgan from the spell. Can they do it before the... Read more

Harmony's Way

By: Lora Leigh

Narrated by: Alexandria Wilde

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Megan's Mark continues her PURRfectly paranormal series.

Lora Leigh's series about genetically-altered humans with feline DNA is turning into a roaring success. When the Breeds desire the passions of the flesh, they can't help but get frisky. Read more

Empire

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are... Read more

Next

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future—it's the world... Read more

Next - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics: Next.
 
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why... Read more

Fragile Things

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A prodigiously imaginative collection.”—New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.”
—Washington Post Book World Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New... Read more

Doctor Who: The Price Of Paradise - Abridged

By: Colin Brake

Narrated by: Shaun Dingwall

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Laylora - the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and... Read more

Doctor Who: The Nightmare Of Black Island - Abridged

By: Mike Tucker

Narrated by: Anthony Head

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has... Read more

Doctor Who: The Art Of Destruction - Abridged

By: Stephen Cole

Narrated by: Don Warrington

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world’s starving millions – but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an... Read more

Chart Throb - Abridged

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Adam Godley

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest.

Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.
And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.

Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his... Read more

Hunters of Dune

By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles

Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based... Read more

Haters - Abridged

By: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Narrated by: Flora Diaz

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta (Paski)'s cartoonist father returns to Taos from a business trip wearing designer sunglasses and a velour Juicy men's track suit, she knows her life is taking a turn for the worse. Paski and her father move to Southern California, where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie.

At her new high... Read more

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Martin Freeman

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!

“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic... Read more

Mostly Harmless

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Martin Freeman

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the... Read more