Science Fiction audiobooks

Nimitz Class - Abridged

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. It's a Nimitz-class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it.So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with... Read more

Starfist: A World of Hurt - Abridged

By: David Sherman & Dan Cragg

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With its down and dirty depiction of warfare written by men who know what it’s like to be under fire, the Starfist saga is a runaway success across America. Now, in the explosive new Starfist adventure, packed with fierce action and danger, Marines at war in future space find themselves pitted against a faceless, insatiable foe bent on... Read more

Prey - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Robert Sean Leonard

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times Bestseller“Terrifying. . . irresistibly suspenseful.” — New York Times Book Review“Holds your attention ruthlessly from start to finish.” — Time magazineA terrifying page–turner in classic Crichton tradition, masterfully combining the elements of a heart–pounding thriller with cutting–edge technology. The result is a tale so... Read more

A Forest of Stars

By: Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Anderson, author of 27 national best-sellers, unleashes the second book in the fantastic series that began with Hidden Empire. Early in the 25th century, humans set fire to the gas-giant planets and ignited a war of epic proportions. Now they learn that they have awakened an ancient, fearsome, and merciless enemy. Read more

Saucer: The Conquest

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with Saucer: The Conquest.

After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of... Read more

Saturn

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Amanda Karr & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the bestselling, widely-praised Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova offers a new adventure of solar system discovery like nothing previously imagined

In the bestselling novels Venus and Jupiter, Ben Bova dramatized the latest discoveries about our own solar system in an epic tale of near-future exploration and development. Now Bova turns his... Read more

Children of the Mind

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & John Rubinstein

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest friend, Jane, an evolved computer intelligence, can... Read more

Saucer: The Conquest - Abridged

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with Saucer: The Conquest.

After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of... Read more

High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her young nephew, Penderrin, has any hope of returning her to power. But to breach the Forbidding and... Read more

Dune: The Battle of Corrin

By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 25 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Dune: The Battle of Corrin

It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the... Read more

Xenocide

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, Jo...

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways... Read more

The Genesis Wave Book 1 - Abridged

By: John Vornholt

Narrated by: Tim Russ

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"As a Matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create."
-- Spock, Star Trek® II: The Wrath of Khan™
Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the... Read more

The Genesis Wave Book 2 - Abridged

By: John Vornholt

Narrated by: Tim Russ

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spectacular conclusion to the thrilling double-sized adventure!
Like an unstoppable cosmic storm, the dreaded Genesis Wave continues to sweep across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming entire planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with extinction. Based on the long-hidden scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series: Vulcan's Soul #1: Exodus - Abridged

By: Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following their bestsellers Vulcan's Forge and Vulcan's Heart, Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz embark on a new trilogy chronicling the latter-day adventures of one of Star Trek's most beloved characters, shedding new light on his world's shocking history.
One year after the end of the Dominion War, the Romulan Star Empire comes under attack... Read more

Silenced

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christians. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians. Meanwhile, Paul struggles with how to... Read more

I, Robot

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.
 
“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian

I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever... Read more

Spider-Man 2 - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Matt Walton

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Follow the adventures of one of the greatest superheroes of all time in the official novelization of the major motion picture! 

Two years have passed, and Peter Parker struggles to cope with the demands of life as a college student, a Daily Bugle photographer, and a crime-fighting superhero. But it hasn’t gotten any easier. Condemned by the... Read more

The Elfstones of Shannara - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the far future, unbeknown to humankind, an apocalyptic war is brewing. Fearsome, vengeful Demons rage at the boundaries of the world, held at bay by a spell called the Forbidding. But now that barrier is dying. Evil is beginning to break through. And only the Chosen can banish the Demons back to their realm.
 
Wil Ohmsford is a healer, not a... Read more

High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her young nephew, Penderrin, has any hope of returning her to power. But to breach the Forbidding and... Read more

The Supernaturalist

By: Eoin Colfer

Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the not-too-distant future, in a place call Satellite City, thirteen-year-old Cosmo Hill is unfortunate enough to come into the world unwanted by his parents. And so, as are all orphaned boys his age, Cosmo is dipped in a vaccine vat and sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenges Boys. But when Cosmo attempts to escape,... Read more

Apocalypse Crucible

By: Mel Odom

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Danger and personal crisis on land, sea, and in the air combine with a level of spiritual warfare that is unparalleled in a Christian book. Crucible is a page-turning thriller that runs side by side with the phenomenal Left Behind series that has sold in excess of 55 million copies. The world is exploding in confusion and terror following the... Read more

First Meetings

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki & Amanda Karr

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the Enderverse.

When Orson Scott Card first published "Ender's Game" as a novella in 1977, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated... Read more

Speaker for the Dead

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: David Birney & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years... Read more

Glorious Appearing - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment.

At the height of the battle between the forces of evil... Read more