Science Fiction audiobooks

When the Wind Blows - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets in this thriller from James Patterson.
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie throws herself into her work,... Read more

Scattered Suns

By: Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells—including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. Instead of protecting themselves, the Ildirans engage in bloody civil war and the many factions of humanity are bitterly divided. Can mankind and Ildirans overcome their own internal fighting... Read more

Ad Astra

By: Dane Rahlmeyer

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Kim Hunters Großvater Rufus durchquert als einer der ersten nach fast einem Jahrtausend die Sternstraße, welche in die sagenumwobenen Vergessenen Sektoren führt. Aber dann wird das Forschungsschiff angegriffen — die Regierung fürchtet eine Invasion, und befiehlt, die Sternstraße zu schließen. Jeder hält die Expedition für vernichtet — nur Kim... Read more

The Traveler

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A world that exists in the shadows of our own.

A conflict we will never see.

One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.

Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live... Read more

The Traveler - Abridged

By: John Twelve Hawks

Narrated by: David Carradine

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A world that exists in the shadows of our own.

A conflict we will never see.

One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.

Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live... Read more

Traitor’s Moon

By: Lynn Flewelling

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 21 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Wounded heroes of a cataclysmic battle, Seregil and Alec have spent the past two years in self-imposed exile, far from their adopted homeland, Skala, and the bitter memories there. But as the war rages on, their time of peace is shattered by a desperate summons from Queen Idrilain, asking them to aid her daughter on a mission to Aurënen, the... Read more

We Few

By: David Weber & John Ringo

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

Prince Roger MacClintock was heir to the galaxy’s Throne of Man and a spoiled young brat—that is, until he and his Royal Marines were stranded on the barbarian planet Marduk. So far, they’ve traversed a continent, taken over an enemy spaceport, and hijacked a starship. But they’re not home free yet—because home is no longer free.Traitors have... Read more

The Vor Game

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with expectations of ship command, so he is disappointed with the assignment of meteorologist to an arctic training camp. But his tenure in the snow-covered north is cut short when he narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits.Miles is... Read more

Empire Builders

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration and opened the solar system to all mankind—becoming one of... Read more

Very Bad Deaths

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The heartbroken recluse…The hardboiled cop…The walking wounded telepath… And the serial killer.Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wife's death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. However, it seems the world won't let him escape so easily, for he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary between a... Read more

Empire of the East

By: Fred Saberhagen

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Now you can enjoy Fred Saberhagen's classic trilogy unbroken: the complete saga of The Broken Lands, The Black Mountains, and Ardneh's World. In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces rule the land, oppressing all human life. But whispered in the shadows is a rumor of rebellion. Deep in the swamps, a small band of rebels has... Read more

The Warrior’s Apprentice

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles Vorkosigan makes his debut in this frenetic coming-of-age tale. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages, through miscalculation in a moment of anger, to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins. His aged grandfather dies... Read more

Ringworld’s Children

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorer Louis Wu, an... Read more

Callahan’s Con

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The discreet little bar that Jake Stonebender established a few blocks below Duval Street is simply called The Place. There, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano, the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested without blushing, Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita and several... Read more

Damia's Children

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Damia's Children, one of science fiction and fantasy's most beloved novelists, Anne McCaffrey, continues the story of psychic Talent begun with The Rowan and Damia. The Rowan's next generation of passionate and talented descendants prepare to defend their worlds against an alien attack of mysterious origin.Damia had deflected a previous... Read more

Stalking Darkness

By: Lynn Flewelling

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of subterfuge, a rogue thief with a noble air, Seregil of Rhiminee has taught his young prot├®g├®, Alec of Kerry, his greatest secrets of the trade. Together they've made their way with thieving jobs large and small, winning friends and enemies, their lives in constant danger and yet charmed by an aura of magic, friendship, and... Read more

Ascendant Sun

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, heir to the Skolian Empire, crash landed his fighter on the Restricted planet of Coba and was imprisoned by the powerful mistresses of the great estates. After eighteen years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape.Kelric returns to Skolian space, only... Read more

Callahan’s Key

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga—an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.The universe in is desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United... Read more

The Radiant Seas

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the continuing saga that began with the acclaimed Primary Inversion, star-crossed lovers Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled again in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Having faked their own deaths and secretly married, they are beginning to pick up what’s left of their lives in exile on a... Read more

The Curse of Chalion

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Cazaril has been, in turn, courtier, castle-warder, and captain; now he is but a crippled ex-galley slave seeking nothing more than a menial job in the kitchens of the Dowager Provincara, the noble patroness of his youth. But Cazaril finds himself promoted to the exalted and dangerous position of tutor to Iselle, the beautiful, fiery sister... Read more

The Last Hawk

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine Asaro, a physicist who combines believable hard science with first-rate storytelling, exploded onto the science fiction scene with her stellar debut novel, Primary Inversion. Now, she brings us the third tale of the Skolian Empire, which AudioFile calls "a classic tale of power and conflict, with a twist."When Kelric, a scion of the... Read more

Ringworld

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson’s puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of... Read more

Primary Inversion

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred, and a desperate attempt must be made to... Read more

Starswarm

By: Jerry Pournelle

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Kip has a secret. A young boy who lives with his uncle at Starswarm Station research outpost on planet Paradise, he has heard a voice in his head for as long as he can remember. The voice guides him in all his decisions, helping him through situations with useful information and helpful insight.One day, finally daring to ask the voice some tough... Read more