Science Fiction audiobooks

Variable Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein & Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy of novels and short stories that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of... Read more

The Draco Tavern

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around Earth's moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Led by Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan), the Dendarii mercenaries have pulled off the daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp. But they have made some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle, shuttle repair, and a well deserved rest.But Miles... Read more

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post-holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they needed to raise food and do the scientific research necessary for survival. But the family was soon plagued by... Read more

Mystic Empire

By: Tracy Hickman & Laura Hickman

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Eighty years have passed since the adventures of Mystic Quest, and the story continues with a new generation of seekers.Theres Theona is the daughter of a magic-rich family, but devoid of any known magical ability herself. Arryk is the rebellious son of the long-lost Aislynn, whose belief in a centaur slave of the Kyree may be the faery... Read more

Rocket Ship Galileo

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the grand master of science fiction comes this classic story about pioneers at the dawn of space exploration.Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high schools students. While other kids are cruising around in their cars or playing ball, this trio, known as the Galileo Club, is experimenting with rocket fuels,... Read more

March to the Stars

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since an attempt on his life marooned him with his bodyguards on the hostile planet Marduk, with its unending series of threats, obstacles, and adventures, Prince Roger McClintock has evolved from a spoiled, petulant heir into a true leader of humans and aliens alike.This third installment in the Prince Roger series takes the Bronze... Read more

March to the Sea

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt. But that was before an assassination attempt marooned the Royal Brat and his bodyguards on the planet Marduk, and before they had to march half way around the planet, through 120-degree heat and... Read more

Voyagers

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knew that the fiery object hurtling toward the Earth was an alien spacecraft—but the world might never know. He was trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy, for the discovery had set off a brutal power struggle among the elite, raging from the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and... Read more

The Stonehenge Gate

By: Jack Williamson

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it. Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site... Read more

The Green Hills of Earth

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skiesAnd the cool, green hills of Earth.The Green Hills of Earthis a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over thirty years. This collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger,"... Read more

The Prestige

By: Christopher Priest

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers—but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other’s ruin,... Read more

Cetaganda

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arriving, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves caught in the middle of a... Read more

Callahan’s Legacy

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years since Spider Robinson first revealed the existence of Callahan’s Place, the original bar is gone. Mike Callahan is gone, too, but his spirit lives on in the new bar, named Mary’s Place for his daughter.On this particular day, nothing seems to be going right for Jake Stonebender, proprietor of Mary’s Place. First a huge storm rips... Read more

Natural Selection

By: Dave Freedman

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking biological discovery—a previously unknown predatory species evolving just like the dinosaurs. Now. Today. Being forced out of its world and into man's for a violent first encounter. Weaving science and thriller in a way not seen since Jurassic Park, Natural Selection introduces a phenomenally dangerous new species that is rapidly... Read more

March Upcountry

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. So it wasn’t surprising that he became spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life?But that was before his mother, the empress, packed him off to a backwater planet... Read more

The Shrinking Man

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants,... Read more

King Kong

By: Delos W. Lovelace

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

SPECIAL COLLECTORS’ EDITION with commentary by eight science-fiction writersKING KONG: His very name inspires awe, horror, and, for some of the greatest masters of contemporary science fiction, a strong affection. Find out why in this special collector’s edition of the original 1932 novelization of Wallace and Cooper’s movie, which includes... Read more

Doctor Who: The Invasion (TV Soundtrack)

By: BBC

Narrated by: Frazer Hines, Full Cast & Patrick Troughton

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'We must destroy life on earth completely. Every living being.' Arriving on Earth in 1975, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover that the component manufacturers International Electromatics has a vice-like grip on the world's technology. When he encounters the firm's company director, the Doctor realises there is something very odd about Tobias... Read more

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (TV Soundtrack)

By: Gerry Davis & Kit Pedler

Narrated by: Anneke Wills, Full Cast & William Hartnell

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

'Millions of years ago, there was a twin planet to Earth...' The year is 1986, and at the South Pole the crew of the Snowcap Base have detected a new planet on their radar. The arrival of the Doctor, Ben and Polly at the Base coincides with another landing - that of a spaceship whose humanoid passengers have used cybernetics to replace their... Read more

The Cave Girl

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of... Read more

The Land That Time Forgot

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in a land where time itself is prisoner. But in the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world, Tyler and the crew of the U-33 discover the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, where the savage denizens of a thousand lost ages roam vast... Read more

Transcendence

By: Charles Sheffield

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for the Builders, the legendary alien race whose unfathomable constructs continued to perplex scholars and explorers alike, had led Builder expert Darya Lang, adventurer Hans Rebka, and treasure hunters Louis Nenda and Atvar H’sial to an unknown Builder artifact far outside the spiral arm. There they found the Zardalu, once the... Read more

Thuvia, Maid of Mars

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The winds of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars blow across a world where danger, daring, and adventure are the lifeblood of its untamed inhabitants. Here are magnificent cities glistening with barbaric splendor and peopled by the noble red men of Mars…savage, rampaging hordes of giant, multilimbed green men who roam the Martian plains…fierce beasts of... Read more