Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks to Start With
One verified listening entry point per indexed universe. This is an editorial guide, not a live sales chart.
Alien: Out of the Shadows
A mining crew's discovery on LV-178 becomes a fight for survival when a shuttle brings a familiar xenomorph threat aboard.
- Narrator
- Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis and ensemble
- Length
- 4 hr 28 min
- Audio release
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
After his death, Bob Johansson awakens as a copied consciousness controlling a self-replicating space probe and is sent toward the stars.
- Narrator
- Ray Porter
- Length
- 9 hr 56 min
- Audio release
Dune
Paul Atreides arrives on Arrakis and is drawn into a struggle over spice, imperial succession and the planet's future.
- Narrator
- Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance and ensemble
- Length
- 21 hr 2 min
- Audio release
Columbus Day
An alien attack pushes young soldier Joe Bishop into a galactic conflict where Earth's supposed allies may be the real threat.
- Narrator
- R.C. Bray
- Length
- 16 hr 23 min
- Audio release
Halo: The Fall of Reach
The origin of John-117 follows the SPARTAN-II programme and humanity's collision with the Covenant in the twenty-sixth century.
- Narrator
- Todd McLaren
- Length
- 11 hr 3 min
- Audio release
Red Rising
A miner from Mars learns that his people have been deceived and enters the elite Institute to undermine the Society from within.
- Narrator
- Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length
- 16 hr 12 min
- Audio release
Empire of Silence
Hadrian flees his assigned future, becomes stranded on another world and begins the path toward a war history remembers in contradictory ways.
- Narrator
- Samuel Roukin
- Length
- 26 hr 6 min
- Audio release
Leviathan Wakes
Captain Holden and detective Miller follow separate clues toward a secret capable of igniting war across the colonised Solar System.
- Narrator
- Jefferson Mays
- Length
- 20 hr 56 min
- Audio release
All Systems Red
A rogue SecUnit hiding its autonomy investigates why a neighbouring planetary mission has gone silent while trying to keep its clients alive.
- Narrator
- Kevin R. Free
- Length
- 3 hr 17 min
- Audio release
Xenos
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn pursues an old enemy and uncovers a wider conspiracy involving alien power and forbidden knowledge.
- Narrator
- Toby Longworth
- Length
- 9 hr 55 min
- Audio release
Dates, narrator names and runtimes refer to the linked audio edition. Regional or dramatized versions can differ and should be indexed as separate records.