Science Fiction audiobooks

Cell

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make... Read more

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along on this fantastic voyage as Professor Arronax, Ned, and Beth set out to capture a terrifying sea monster—before it captures them."The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a... Read more

The Poison Belt

By: Sir 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

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

Brothers in Arms

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Led by Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan), the Dendarii mercenaries have pulled off the daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp. But they have made some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle, shuttle repair, and a well deserved rest.But Miles... Read more

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post-holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they needed to raise food and do the scientific research necessary for survival. But the family was soon plagued by... Read more

Mystic Empire

By: Tracy Hickman & Laura Hickman

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Eighty years have passed since the adventures of Mystic Quest, and the story continues with a new generation of seekers.Theres Theona is the daughter of a magic-rich family, but devoid of any known magical ability herself. Arryk is the rebellious son of the long-lost Aislynn, whose belief in a centaur slave of the Kyree may be the faery... Read more

Rocket Ship Galileo

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the grand master of science fiction comes this classic story about pioneers at the dawn of space exploration.Ross Jenkins, Art Mueller, and Morris Abrams are not your average high schools students. While other kids are cruising around in their cars or playing ball, this trio, known as the Galileo Club, is experimenting with rocket fuels,... Read more

March to the Stars

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since an attempt on his life marooned him with his bodyguards on the hostile planet Marduk, with its unending series of threats, obstacles, and adventures, Prince Roger McClintock has evolved from a spoiled, petulant heir into a true leader of humans and aliens alike.This third installment in the Prince Roger series takes the Bronze... Read more

March to the Sea

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Prince Roger MacClintock, Tertiary Heir to the Throne of Man, was a spoiled rotten, arrogant, whiny, thoroughly useless young pain in the butt. But that was before an assassination attempt marooned the Royal Brat and his bodyguards on the planet Marduk, and before they had to march half way around the planet, through 120-degree heat and... Read more

Voyagers

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knew that the fiery object hurtling toward the Earth was an alien spacecraft—but the world might never know. He was trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy, for the discovery had set off a brutal power struggle among the elite, raging from the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and... Read more

The Stonehenge Gate

By: Jack Williamson

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it. Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site... Read more

The Green Hills of Earth

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skiesAnd the cool, green hills of Earth.The Green Hills of Earthis a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over thirty years. This collection includes "Delilah and the Space-Rigger,"... Read more

The Prestige

By: Christopher Priest

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers—but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other’s ruin,... Read more

Cetaganda

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arriving, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves caught in the middle of a... Read more

Callahan’s Legacy

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years since Spider Robinson first revealed the existence of Callahan’s Place, the original bar is gone. Mike Callahan is gone, too, but his spirit lives on in the new bar, named Mary’s Place for his daughter.On this particular day, nothing seems to be going right for Jake Stonebender, proprietor of Mary’s Place. First a huge storm rips... Read more

Natural Selection

By: Dave Freedman

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking biological discovery—a previously unknown predatory species evolving just like the dinosaurs. Now. Today. Being forced out of its world and into man's for a violent first encounter. Weaving science and thriller in a way not seen since Jurassic Park, Natural Selection introduces a phenomenally dangerous new species that is rapidly... Read more

March Upcountry

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. So it wasn’t surprising that he became spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life?But that was before his mother, the empress, packed him off to a backwater planet... Read more

The Shrinking Man

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants,... Read more