Science Fiction audiobooks

Orphans of the Sky

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Lost in SpaceHugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the... Read more

Not Long before the End

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, this short story introduces the Warlock, who discovers to his horror that the world’s mana, the fuel that makes magic work, is rapidly dwindling. The news spells doom for magic-based society. Unfortunately, no secret that powerful can stay hidden for long. Read more

The Wind in His Heart

By: Charles De Lint

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

De Lint's first adult fantasy novel in 8 years weaves a rich tapestry of story with classic CdL elegance. Young Thomas Corn Eyes sees into the otherworld, but all he wants to do is get off the rez. Steve Cole escaped from his rock star life to disappear into the desert and mountains. Fifteen-year-old barrio kid Sadie Higgins has been discarded... Read more

Madness from the Inconstant Moon

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)“Passerby” (1969)“For a Foggy Night” (1968)“Wait It Out” (1968)“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)“Not Long before the End” (1969)“Unfinished Story No. 1”... Read more

Inconstant Moon

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova, and they only have a few hours until the earth rotates into the deadly sunshine.This story won a Hugo Award and was made into an episode of The Outer Limits. Read more

The Theory and Practice of Time Travel

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This nonfiction essay, first published in Vertex in April 1973, discusses the grandfather paradox and the many uses, implications, and limits of teleportation, from personal transportation to interstellar travel. Read more

Null States

By: Malka Older

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Christine Marshall narrates a chilling near-future thriller...The complex plot shifts between three main storylines, but Marshall keeps all of them clear through her straightforward delivery." — AudioFile Magazine

Null States continues Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's Centenal Cycle: the politically-charged science fiction trilogy that... Read more

What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Like Cloak of Anarchy, this story is peopled with fictional versions of several of Niven’s friends. A discussion among friends about the theory of “Multiple Edens” suddenly becomes all too real, and the reason Tom Findlay has been asking such interesting questions over the years becomes clear. Read more

Exercise in Speculation

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This nonfiction essay, first published in Galaxy in March 1969, discusses the many uses, implications, and limits of teleportation, from personal transportation to interstellar travel. Read more

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Can Superman make a baby with Lois Lane, or is he doomed to be the last of his kind? This article discusses the scientific and medical issues involved in copulating with a Kryptonian.Also includes “Unfinished Story No. 1” and “Unfinished Story No. 2.” Read more

All the Myriad Ways

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble faces an increasing number of bizarre suicides in a world struggling to come to terms with its place in a multiverse of different timelines, where every decision ever made by anyone becomes an alternate universe. Read more

For a Foggy Night

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of Niven’s rare stories of cross-dimensional travel, an unnamed protagonist discovers the real reason that things seem so foggy on a foggy night. Read more

Becalmed in Hell

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Eric is the “Brain” of the first ship to explore Venus. Howie is his human crewmember. When a fault develops, forcing the ship down onto the hostile Venusian surface, Howie must figure out the problem with Eric, be it mechanical or psychological. “Becalmed in Hell” first appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction in July 1965. Read more

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 11

By: Jonathan Strahan

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, MiMi Chang, Michael G. Welch, Rich ...

Length: 23 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the... Read more

Star of Danger

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel from the Darkover series, about a man on his first mission to the planet. What he encounters when he leaves the space station is to determine the fate of every Terran stranded there. Read more

Planet Savers/Sword of Aldones

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The books that started Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, this audiobook combines the 1958 novella PLANET SAVERS and the 1962 novella THE SWORD OF ALDONES into the only one-volume treatment authorized by the Marion Zimmer Bradley Trust. Read more

Perry Rhodan 2926: Schwarzes Feuer - Abridged

By: Kai Hirdt

Narrated by: Andreas Laurenz Maier

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Riesen von Halut in verzweifelter Lage – bringt der Spross KYLLDIN die Rettung? Gut dreitausend Jahre in der Zukunft: Perry Rhodans Vision, die Milchstraße in eine Sterneninsel ohne Kriege zu verwandeln, lebt nach wie vor. Der Mann von der Erde, der einst die Menschen zu den Sternen führte, möchte endlich Frieden in der Galaxis... Read more

Over A Barrel

By: Bruce E. Arrington

Narrated by: James Simenc

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Over A Barrel: The Phalanx Blood Series, Part 2 is a young adult thriller novella written by Bruce E. Arrington. Time usually seems to go much too slowly when you’re sixteen, but for Bernard the last ten weeks or so had flown by with nightmarish speed. It all started with him agreeing to his parents’ request to donate blood for his birthday, in... Read more

Iraq + 100

By: Hassan Blasim

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Peter Ganim was just the right choice to narrate this audiobook" — AudioFile Magazine

A groundbreaking audiobook anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be “The Other.”

This collection of short stories is masterfully edited by Hassan Blasim and features the following authors:

Hassan Blasim... Read more

Retrograde

By: Peter Cawdron

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Venturing into space and travelling to Mars sounds like an exotic adventure, but the reality is living in lava caves hundreds of feet below the surface of a rocky, frozen, lifeless planet is exacting on the Mars Endeavour crew. The only viable option for long term habitation lies beneath the surface of the planet, where humans can be shielded... Read more

An Excess Male

By: Maggie Shen King

Narrated by: James Chen, Tim Chiou & Elaine Kao

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke.Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find... Read more

The Final Key

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Final Key is the completion of the duology Triad, which began with the novel Schism, and which reveals the epic story of how a war of galactic proportions first exploded between two great empires and how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The... Read more

Taste of Marrow

By: Sarah Gailey

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its... Read more

Starship Mine

By: Peter Cawdron

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma—deep in the Bible Belt—the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and that makes him the most important person on the planet. Read more