Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Ice and Fire [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Snakefish, California, is rich in the currency of post-holocaust America—gasoline.

Almost leveled by the Soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valuable than the usual Deathlands jack.

But greed and man's lust for power threaten to shatter the... Read more

Zero City [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses called villes, policed by stone hearts called sec men. But even in this dark new world, heroes and legends are... Read more

Damnation Road Show [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn... and the road deep into the hell that is Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his choice long ago, in this barbaric new world that conspires against... Read more

Vengeance Trail [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As megalomaniac barons and savage anarchy compete to lay claim to post-nuclear America, perseverance and a will to live are what keep Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists roving through the worst and best of a new world. Armed with secrets of pre-Dark tech, they possess what few in Deathlands can imagine: hope for a better tomorrow.
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Red Equinox [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Three generations after nuclear blasts all but vaporized the Earth, a group of warrior survivalists led by a charismatic man named Ryan Cawdor roam the hostile environment called Deathlands.

Their quest becomes a grim struggle for survival as they search for a better life beyond the nuke-ravaged cities. And it is one such harrowing journey that... Read more

Northstar Rising [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A generation after a global nuclear catastrophe, Minnesota is a steamy tropical environment of lush plants and horrifically mutated insects.

Emerging torn and battered after a triple jump through the gateways, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors discover an abandoned cryonics complex—a doomed fantasy begun a century before in a... Read more

Devil Riders [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A century after the nuclear conflagration almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those who would be killed. But an elite few defy the laws of this new natural selection—playing both sides of the eternal game of life and death. Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior... Read more

Pilgrimage to Hell [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jack Adrian

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a crisp January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C.
Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival.
In the blasted heart of the new America, a group... Read more

Time Nomads [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the blasted heart of the new America, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists search for hidden caches of food, weapons and technology—the legacy of a pre-holocaust society—stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts.

When Ryan ingests bacteria-infested food, he lies near death—his body paralyzed but his mind traveling rapidly back... Read more

Gemini Rising [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, N...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After two centuries of nuclear blight, a new America is emerging, forged by those seeking peace and hope for the future. Pocket communities, ruled by local barons, have become the new centers of civilization...and power. But while many desire prosperity, others embrace ideas of ultimate domination.

The son of a powerful baron, Ryan Cawdor has... Read more

Rat King [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, homing their survival skills in a wasteland where danger lurks over the next hill.

Emerging into one of the pre-dark... Read more

Shaking Earth [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a nuclear blast all but vaporized the Western Hemisphere in the late twenty-first century, America became known as Deathlands, a hellhole that has proved itself a formidable foe in the fight for survival—a place where the will to see another day comes down to raw courage and a good aim. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group roam the vast and... Read more

Latitude Zero [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self-destructing redoubt in the new southwest and embark on a journey overland to find the nearest gateway. But without an adequate... Read more

Shadow Fortress [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A planet ravaged by the apocalyptic blast of 2001 gave birth to a new world of savagery—and a new breed of hero. In a land where violence rules with absolute authority, Ryan Cawdor and his wayfarer survivalists roam the strange, nascent twenty second century, living by their own creed of honor as they continue their search for a sanctuary they... Read more

Breakthrough [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike wiped out nearly all of earth's population, humanity's feral instinct to survive has spawned a savage new America. Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire against hope. Yet despite its chaos and bloody turmoil, Deathlands is a second chance for the human race...and for a group of... Read more

Skydark Spawn [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fought for and won with blood—each day alive means another chance to seek refuge and a better way of life in a hostile and brutal world, where hope still fires the human heart.

In the... Read more

Ritual Chill [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Time and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature remains: the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and stubborn resolve continue to defy the worst that Deathlands offers. With grim determination, he and his warrior... Read more

Bloodfire [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Life in twenty-second-century America is an odyssey of pain and death. Savagely transformed by atomic fallout, what remains of humanity endures an internecine war against those who thrive on chaos and bloodshed. A legend in a violent land, Ryan Cawdor lives and fights by his own rules as he and his companions traverse the grim world of... Read more

Homeward Bound [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan Cawdor's post-holocaust odyssey across America is about to come full circle—Ryan Cawdor is going home.

Forced away from Front Royal by a power-mad brother who had already committed fratricide, Ryan had roamed a devastated America searching out the small pockets of life where civilization was being reborn.

Emerging from a gateway in the... Read more

Atlantis Reprise [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For Ryan Cawdor, leader of a small group of post-apocalypse survivalists, it's the inner fire of survival that guides them through this hell on earth... to whatever lies beyond the daily fight for existence. There are times when the oblivion of death seems a most welcome journey out of Deathlands. But for Ryan, death is something his warrior's... Read more

Hellbenders [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born—a tortured testament to a world long gone. Yet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is law, hope is the last refuge of the doomed. For Ryan Cawdor, driven by a warrior's instinct to survive, it's a world... Read more

Dark Emblem [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Transformed by the nuclear conflict of 2001, the earth had turned into a wasteland ruled by anarchy and barbarism. Heirs to this blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers fight for survival... and a way to restore humanity's lost promise.

The preholocaust redoubts housing the dangerous and unpredictable mat-trans units are the legacy... Read more

Labyrinth [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It took only minutes for human history to derail in a mushroom cloud—now more than a century later, whatever destiny lies ahead for humanity is bound by the rules that have governed survival since the dawn of time: part luck, part skill and part hard experience. For Ryan Cawdor and his band, survival in Deathlands means keeping hold of what you... Read more

Judas Strike [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

A nuclear Endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawdor and his band have become living legends in a world of madness and death where savagery reigns,... Read more