Science Fiction audiobooks

The Poison Belt

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Challenger summons his three best friends to come to his country house, each one to bring a cylinder of pure oxygen. When they arrive, the reason for this strange request becomes terrifyingly clear. Professor Challenger has become convinced that the earth is entering a poison belt of ether and that life upon this planet is doomed.In a... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Time Traveler first steps out of his magnificent time-transport machine in the year 802,700—more than 800,000 years beyond his own era. The brave explorer finds himself on a slowly dying Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists called the Eloi and decides to study this lush land of flower people before returning to his own age. These... Read more

From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Written more than a century before man landed on the moon, this classic adventure tale has proved to be one of Jules Verne’s most prophetic. It is also a forerunner of today’s science fiction.At the close of the Civil War, the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves unemployed and bored. Finally, their president, Impey Barbicane,... 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

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

Master of Space and Time

By: Rudy Rucker

Narrated by: Scott Grunden

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Madcap inventor Harry Gerber is hopeless when it comes to surviving in the real world. So he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Assisted by his straight-men co-conspirators, Joe Fletcher and the comely Sondra Tupperware, and powered by gluons—the stuff that holds our very atoms together—Gerber... Read more

Space Boy

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it space travel that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn’t use a spaceship; he just hangs out in his own backyard.In Space Boy, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, takes listeners into a strange and... Read more

Berserker Fury

By: Fred Saberhagen

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Before George Lucas' Death Star and before Star Trek's Doomsday Machine came the Berserkers, intelligent, space-faring killing machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all life. The Berserkers have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. They're gambling on the advantage this gives them and massing for... Read more

Huysman’s Pets

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley Huysman, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist, had spent his later years on far-out experiments never much heeded by the scientific community. Only after Huysman’s death does his visionary genius become clear, when his widow, Irma, arranges for Drew Lancaster to write the scientist’s biography. As Drew delves into Huysman’s notes, he... Read more

A Civil Campaign

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem that all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in... Read more

Welcome, Chaos

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What would happen to the precarious balance of power if scientists could extend life for centuries? If one power bloc had biological protection against radiation and the other did not? Whose thumb would press the button first?When Lyle Taney took leave from her teaching job to live high in the mountains, researching the ways of eagles, she was... Read more

Eifelheim

By: Michael Flynn

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn’t. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than six hundred years ago?In 1348, as the... Read more

Alvin Journeyman

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, a full cast, Heather Cogswell...

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build,... Read more

Voyagers III

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Astronaut Keith Stoner, member of a joint US-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system, was trapped alone aboard the spacecraft. But he didn’t die; he lay frozen in deep sleep for fifteen years, kept alive by alien biotechnology. Now Stoner is something more than just a man. While asleep he was inoculated with... Read more

Mirror Dance

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii... Read more

I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man,... Read more

Komarr

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years’ work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.The choice... Read more

Prentice Alvin

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Ru...

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Orson Scott Card’s Tales of Alvin Maker have created a moving fantasy world from the dream of America and the simple magics of the people who settled her. Here is a world where folk magic is as much a part of life as hard work and religion, and where the red man and the white still have hope for living in peace with the land and each other. It... Read more

Voyagers II

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint US–Soviet mission to capture an alien ship. The Soviets had to pull out, but Stoner persisted, and while on the strange ship, he fell into suspended animation.Jo Camerata, the ambitious... Read more

A Galaxy Trilogy, Vol. 1

By: Poul Anderson, George Henry Smith & Stanton A. ...

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Star Trek or Gene Roddenberry and before Star Wars and George Lucas, the science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s were writing some of the hippest genre literature of the era. Here are three imaginative novellas from some of these pioneers of pulp science fiction.Star Ways by Poul Anderson is an action-packed saga of the Nomads,... Read more

Memory

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that’s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks, and he should know, having done both once already.Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and incredible artistry from a medical specialist, Miles’ first death won’t be his last. But it does take some recovery, a fact he has been reluctant to admit. When he... Read more

The Dark Door

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called in by insurance companies to follow the trail of a suspected serial arsonist. The arsonist, Carson Danvers, has been on a fanatical crusade since the loss of his wife and son, burning down a series of old, shut-up wooden buildings in which random outbreaks of madness and murder have been... Read more

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