Science Fiction audiobooks

The City Who Fought - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles. When a battered, jury-rigged ship appears to threaten the station, they rescue the people who are fleeing from the vicious Kolnari pirates. As the... Read more

PartnerShip - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"—someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a... Read more

Shadows of the Sun - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the EnterpriseTM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the... Read more

Dragonsdawn - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists—a return to an agrarian way of life—until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything—and everyone—in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the... Read more

Dragonflight - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a beautiful planet called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. The sole survivor of a noble ruling family, Lessa is an outcast—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge for her murdered parents. Everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share... Read more

Windows on a Lost World - Abridged

By: V.E. Mitchell

Narrated by: Walter Koenig

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Windows On A Lost World
While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise™ explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them... Read more

Emissary - Abridged

By: J.M. Dillard

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series!

Commander Benjamin Sisko is just recovering from the death of his wife when he is assigned command over the former Cardassian, but new Federation space station, Deep Space Nine. This space station is strategically located not only because of its orbit about Bajor, but also because of... Read more

Borgel - Abridged

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Melvin Spellbound's humdrum life suddenly becomes extraordinary when 111-year-old Borgel arrives for a visit. In this clever, funny, off-the-wall story, Melvin's sort of Uncle Borgel seems like an Old World refugee when he shows up at the Spellbound home and moves into their back room with 32 small black suitcases. However, his true identity as... Read more

Star Trek: Conversational Klingon - Abridged

By: Marc Okrand

Narrated by: Marc Okrand & Michael Dorn

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Written by Mark Okrand, the creator of The Klingon Dictionary, Conversational Klingon is an audio program that can teach anyone to speak authentic Klingon. It includes the words, phrases, pronunciations and customs for any situation, including: proper voice inflection, key Klingon words for emergencies, and sample conversations between Klingons. Read more

Star Trek Next Generation: Imzadi - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid... Read more

Star Trek: Faces of Fire - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Bibi Besch

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three, a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus.

Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies and the... Read more

Pegasus in Flight & To Ride Pegasus - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first two chapters in Anne McCaffrey's “Talents Saga" are featured in this recording: Pegasus in Flight In this sequel to Ride the Pegasus, McCaffrey continues the story of the Talents—psionic beings who were once feared and despised, but have become necessary to the comfort and conduct of society. As director of a parapsychic center,... Read more

Alien 3 - Abridged

By: Alan Foster

Narrated by: Lance Henriksen

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the remnants of a space vehicle, sleeps Ellen Ripley, a woman who has battled a monstrous enemy twice. The first time, the creature killed the entire whole crew of the Nostromo. The second time, it slaughtered a dozen of death-dealing Marines. Now on a bleak planet that houses a horde of defiant prisoners, Ripley will have to fight the... Read more

Q-in-Law - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Majel Barrett & John de Lancie

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A celebration of love between two powerful rival families is cut short when the all powerful being called Q arrives and challenges the very concept of love.

When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though... Read more

Star Trek VI - Abridged

By: J.M. Dillard

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Internal pressures, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the verge of catastrophic collapse.
To avert disaster, Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, proposes negotiations between the Federation and Klingon Empire, negotiations that will put an end to the... Read more

Star Trek: Prime Directive - Abridged

By: Judith Reeves-Stevens

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Starfleet's most sacred commandment has been violated. Its most honored captain is in disgrace, its
most celebrated starship in pieces, and the crew of that ship scattered among the thousand worlds of
the Federation...

Thus begins Prime Directive, an epic tale of the Star Trek&reg universe. Following in the
bestselling tradition of Spock's... Read more

Gulliver's Fugitives - Abridged

By: Keith Sharee

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While searching for the U.S.S. Huxley, missing for more than 10 years, the EnterpriseTM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately... Read more

Star Trek: The Kabayashi Maru - Abridged

By: Julia Ecklar

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short, but time on their hands.

Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy... Read more

Scanners II - Abridged

By: Janus Kimball

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Renegades with telekinetic and telepathic abilities, “ scanners” know your innermost secrets. They see through your own eyes, and they kill by thought. David Ketchum has no idea about scanners— until the night he saves a young girl's life by thinking a gunman to his horrific death. And now Commander Wayne... Read more

Star Trek 5: the Final Frontier - Abridged

By: J.M. Dillard

Narrated by: George Takei & Leonard Nimoy

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the planet Nimbus III, a harsh world deep in the neutral zone, the three major powers -- Federation, Klingon, and Romulan -- attempt a revolutionary cooperative program, jointly developing the planet as an experiment in peace. But that makes Nimbus III an irresistible target for terrorists, who seize control of the planet, and the... Read more

Star Trek: Final Frontier - Abridged

By: Diane Carey

Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Commander George Samuel Kirk was aboard the Enterprise under the command of Captain Robert April before his famous son was born. Starfleet has just been founded and the Enterprise has just been built, and is sent on its first mission.

The mission takes the Enterprise into the heart of hostile Romulan territory, where cosmopolitical machinations... Read more

Time For Yesterday - Abridged

By: A.C. Crispin

Narrated by: James Doohan & Leonard Nimoy

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing -- the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy -- and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the... Read more

The Entrophy Effect - Abridged

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

Narrated by: George Takei & Leonard Nimoy

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center, the brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time, and then killing them instead.

But there's more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordreaux's experiments have somehow thrown the... Read more

Yesterday's Son - Abridged

By: A.C. Crispin

Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever -- the mysterious portal to the past.
The Starship Enterprise™ must protect the Guardian -- or destroy it. But Spock has already used the portal to journey to the past. On the planet Sarpedion, 5,000 years ago, Spock knew a beautiful,... Read more