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The Best Science Fiction Audiobooks

The best science fiction rewires how you see the present, and audio is a natural home for it, letting a narrator sell an alien voice or a ship-board AI in a way the page leaves to your imagination. This shelf spans first contact and deep time, generation ships and near futures one headline away. Some picks are idea machines, some are character studies set on a dying ship, and each review is clear about which. Every title lists narrator and runtime, and starts free with an Audible trial.

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

Narrated by Ray Porter

4.6/ 5· 16 hr 10 min

The Martian

by Andy Weir

Narrated by Wil Wheaton

4.6/ 5· 10 hr 59 min

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Narrated by Wil Wheaton

4.7/ 5· 15 hr 40 min

Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)

by Pierce Brown

Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

4.8/ 5· 16 hr 12 min

Wool

by Hugh Howey

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

4.6/ 5· 15 hr

Golden Son (Red Rising Book 2)

by Pierce Brown

Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

4.6/ 5· 19 hr 3 min

Ready Player Two: A Novel (Ready Player One Book 2)

by Ernest Cline

Narrated by Wil Wheaton

4.2/ 5· 13 hr 46 min

Dune

by Frank Herbert

Narrated by Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, and Scott Sowers

4.8/ 5· 21 hr 2 min

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by Sura Siu

4.2/ 5

The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

Narrated by Rosalind Chao

4.4/ 5· 13 hr 53 min

Recursion

by Blake Crouch

Narrated by Jon Lindstrom and Abby Craden

4.4/ 5

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

Narrated by Penn Badgley

4.4/ 5· 4 hr 48 min

Children of Time

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by Mel Hudson

4.5/ 5· 16 hr 31 min

Leviathan Wakes

by James S. A. Corey

Narrated by Jefferson Mays

4.6/ 5· 20 hr 56 min

Brave New World: A Novel

by Aldous Huxley

Narrated by Robert Scott Harris

4.5/ 5· 3 hr 50 min

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1)

by N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by Robin Miles

4.6/ 5

Ender's Game (Ender Quintet Book 1)

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and Harlan Ellison

4.5/ 5· 11 hr 19 min

The Power

by Naomi Alderman

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh

4.2/ 5· 12 hr 5 min

There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel

by qntm

Narrated by Rebecca Calder

4.3/ 5· 8 hr 47 min

Jurassic Park

by Michael Crichton

Narrated by Scott Brick

4.7/ 5· 15 hr 10 min

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

Narrated by Jim Moon

4.4/ 5

A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book

by Becky Chambers

Narrated by Em Grosland

4.4/ 5· 4 hr 8 min

Platform Decay

by Martha Wells

Narrated by Kevin R. Free

4.6/ 5· 5 hr 45 min

This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

Narrated by Cynthia Farrell and Emily Woo Zeller

4.2/ 5· 4 hr 16 min

Annihilation

by Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by Carolyn McCormick

4.1/ 5

Scythe

by Neal Shusterman

Narrated by Greg Tremblay

4.7/ 5· 10 hr 32 min

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

Narrated by Scott Brick

4.4/ 5· 8 hr 38 min

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by Lynne Thigpen

4.5/ 5· 12 hr

Ancillary Justice

by Ann Leckie

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh

4.3/ 5· 12 hr 41 min

Exhalation: Stories

by Ted Chiang

Narrated by Ted Chiang, Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, and Amy Landon

4.5/ 5· 11 hr 22 min

A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

Narrated by Amy Landon

4.2/ 5· 15 hr 42 min

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North

Narrated by Peter Kenny

4.2/ 5· 12 hr 10 min

Vox

by Christina Dalcher

Narrated by Julia Whelan

4.3/ 5· 9 hr 27 min

Kindred

by Octavia Butler

Narrated by Kim Staunton

4.6/ 5· 10 hr 55 min

Iron Widow (Book 1)

by Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrated by Rong Fu

4.4/ 5· 12 hr 19 min

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

Narrated by Fred Berman and Phoebe Strole

4.5/ 5

Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

Narrated by Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, and Victor Bevine

4.5/ 5· 20 hr 44 min

Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Narrated by Robertson Dean

4.4/ 5· 10 hr 31 min

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

Narrated by Jonathan Davis

4.4/ 5· 17 hr 3 min

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood

Narrated by Campbell Scott

4.4/ 5

Axiom's End

by Lindsay Ellis

Narrated by Abigail Thorn and Stephanie Willis

4.5/ 5· 15 hr 59 min

We Burned So Bright

by TJ Klune

Narrated by Kirt Graves

4.5/ 5· 6 hr 25 min

Exit Party

by Emily St. John Mandel

Narrated by Kirsten Potter, Kimberly Farr, Peter Ganim, Catherine Ho, and James Aaron Oh

4.5/ 5· 12 hr 29 min

11/22/63

by Stephen King

Narrated by Craig Wasson

4.6/ 5· 30 hr 40 min

The Last Contract of Isako

by Fonda Lee

Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal and Dillon Sickels

4.4/ 5· 17 hr 13 min

Green City Wars

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by John Pirhalla

4.5/ 5· 12 hr 50 min

Full Speed to a Crash Landing

by Beth Revis

Narrated by Dara Rosenberg and David Bendena

4.1/ 5· 4 hr 5 min

The Infinite State

by Richard Swan

Narrated by Chris Rowe, Helen Keeley, and Nathaniel Priestley

4.2/ 5· 15 hr 19 min

Blightfall

by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson

Narrated by Eddie Lopez and Suzy Jackson

4.3/ 5· 15 hr

Under Story

by Chloe Benjamin

Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed

4.1/ 5· 20 hr 37 min

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