Science Fiction audiobooks

Children of Memory

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Mel Hudson

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this... Read more

A Stitch in Time

By: Andrew J. Robinson

Narrated by: Andrew J. Robinson

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An unique and intense tale following Elim Garak as he attempts to stitch the ravaged society of Cardassia back together.

For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing—to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But... Read more

Shift

By: Hugh Howey

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Watch Silo, the Apple TV+ series based on the bestselling Silo Saga, starting May, 2023!The second volume in the New York Times bestselling Silo series. Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the beginning of the end.In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that... Read more

Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerFrom Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless... Read more

Mal Goes to War

By: Edward Ashton

Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The humans are fighting again. Go figure.

As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself... Read more

The Kingdom of Gods

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created... Read more

The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Corey Brill

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The acclaimed national bestseller that is “old-school horror at its best” (Stephen King) follows a scout troop as it is unexpectedly caught up in an isolating and utterly terrifying fight for their lives.

Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting... Read more

Hollow Kingdom

By: Kira Jane Buxton

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious, "dazzling" romp, a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive a zombie apocalypse–think Watership Down meets Dawn of the Dead (Mona Awad, author of Bunny).

S.T. is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his human owner, Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. ""those idiots""), and enjoying... Read more

Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!
A Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.
Featured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more.

Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.

“A modern... Read more

The Last Watch

By: J. S. Dewes

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Both readers are brilliant and nail the characterization in a way that instantly connects them to the listener..Everything here is top-notch." -- Booklist, starred review

The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes's fast-paced, sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation.

The... 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

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

Parasite

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
 
We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from... Read more

Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he suspects his mysterious employers have inadvertently discovered time travel—and are using it to cover up a string of violent crimes . . .



Four days before Christmas, eight-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, twenty-eight-year-old Brandon... Read more

Consider Phlebas

By: Iain M. Banks

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed.... Read more

Dead Astronauts

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own.Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of... Read more

We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin

Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Margaret Atwood & Toby Jones

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin

In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful “Benefactor,” the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret... Read more

The Second Foundation

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In THE SECOND FOUNDATION, Isaac Asimov addresses the phenomenon of genetic mutation and its potential danger to a civilization. This novel tells of an overwhelmingly powerful mutant human being, born with the ability to mold men's emotions and minds. He has brought down the First Foundation, and now only the Second Foundation remains.

THE SECOND... Read more

Foundation and Empire

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the... Read more

Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista

This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty

For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel—or go it alone in the... Read more

Welcome to Night Vale

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Therese Plu...

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

?New York Times Bestseller""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian“A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.orgFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an... Read more

Of Blood and Bone

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.Fallon Swift, approaching... 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

Ball Lightning

By: Cixin Liu

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wildly imaginative." —Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy

A new standalone military science fiction adventure from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy.

This program is read by Feodor Chin, voice of Zenyatta in Overwatch.

When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball... Read more