Must Listen Sci-Fi: 50 Bangers Everyone Should Read!

Shards of Honor

The Cordelia Naismith Series: Book #1

By: Lois McMaster Bujold
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force was on a routine mission to study the life forms on an uninhabited, neutral planet. Little did she know that the enemy Barrayarans had chosen this place as their secret base for an as-yet undeclared war. Separated from her team, Cordelia is captured by Lord Aral Vorkosigan, the leader in... Read more

3zekiel

By: Peter Cawdron
Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Deep within the Congo, a team of scientists prepares for the greatest event in the history of humanity, making First Contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species, only the jungle is no place for doubts.



Could First Contact be our last? Read more

Sun of Suns

Book One of Virga

Virga

By: Karl Schroeder
Narrated by: Joyce Irvine
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.... Read more

Luna: New Moon

The Luna Trilogy: Book #1

By: Ian McDonald
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Soneela Nankani & Thom Rivera
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family’s status in the moon’s vicious political atmosphere.The moon wants to kill you—whether it’s being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or just getting caught up in a fight between the moon’s ruling corporations, the... Read more

Singularity Sky

Singularity: Book #1

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Critically acclaimed author Charles Stross has mastered numerous genres, including Lovecraftian horror, fantasy, and alternate history, claiming such prizes as the Locus and Sidewise Awards. His breathtaking science fiction has earned him a Hugo Award and several additional Hugo nominations, including one for Singularity Sky.

In the 21st century,... Read more

Embers of War

The Embers of War Series: Book #1

By: Gareth L. Powell
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Soneela Nankani, Natasha Soudek & various narrators
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

From BSFA Award–winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of warThe sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an... Read more

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which transports its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one... Read more

The Stars Are Legion

By: Kameron Hurley
Narrated by: Nicole Poole & Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.



Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who... Read more

Void Star

By: Zachary Mason
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Tristan Morris, Sean Pratt & Michael Braun
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Not far in the future, the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying. But it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons-drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor.Irina isn’t rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between... Read more

Salvation

Salvation Sequence

By: Peter F. Hamilton
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation—including starships—virtually obsolete. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful—until a... Read more

The Forever War

Forever War: Book #1

By: Joe Haldeman
Narrated by: George Wilson
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

When it was first published over 20 years ago, Joe Haldeman's novel won the Hugo and Nebula awards and was chosen Best Novel in several countries. Today, it is hailed a classic of science fiction that foreshadowed many of the futuristic themes of the 1990s: bionics, sensory manipulation, and time distortion.

William Mandella is a soldier in... Read more

Replay

By: Ken Grimwood
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

A time-travel classic in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, Ken Grimwood's acclaimed novel Replay asks the provocative question: "What if you could live your life over again, knowing the mistakes you'd made before?"



Forty-three-year-old Jeff Winston gets several chances to do just that. Trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job,... Read more

Aurora

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.

Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.

Now, we approach our new home.

AURORA. Read more

Riot Baby

By: Tochi Onyebuchi
Narrated by: Tochi Onyebuchi
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor’s son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven’t happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her... Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“A post-apocalyptic story about progress, regression, violence, ignorance, and the cycles that humanity seems doomed to repeat. After a worldwide catastrophe, a group of monks collects and preserves scientific relics and writings in a quest to rediscover lost, but fundamental scientific theories. The century-spanning story that follows looks at... Read more

Altered Carbon

Kovacs

By: Richard K. Morgan
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the... Read more

Roadside Picnic

By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
Narrated by: Robert Forster
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into... Read more

Wild Seed

Patternist: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

DDoro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one—until he meets Anyanwu. ... Read more

Revelation Space

Revelation Space

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes

“A grand epic space opera. For the first hundred pages of this book I wasn’t sold. It developed slowly and was slightly difficult to follow because of the relativistic time differences between the characters and unfolding sub-plots. But I am glad that I held out and kept reading. Right after page 100 the book started to get more and more... Read more

I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“One of the definitive genre classics, I Am Legend asks what we won't do to survive and if we're still human if we do. Read more