Discover the Best Audio Stories in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

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Title: Blue Screens of Death: A System Apocalypse Short Story

Series: #6 of The System Apocalypse Short stories

Author: Tao Wong

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 23 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Morning in Whitehorse, and everything is the normal. All too normal. A girlfriend who loves him, an evening at the farmer’s market in Shipyard’s Park. Idyllic, relaxing, peaceful. What more could a man want?   John Lee isn’t sure, but stray thoughts intrude, and memories of a different time, a different place, a different world keep intruding. Angst-ridden, exhausting memories of a world of pain and struggle. Nothing like the paradise he lives in.   Now, if only John wasn’t so attracted to them.   This short story is set between Books 9 and 10. Minor spoilers included within.

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Title: Questing for Titles: A System Apocalypse Short Story

Series: #5 of The System Apocalypse Short stories

Author: Tao Wong

Narrator: Aven Shore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 42 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

What’s in a Title? That which the System gives by any other Title might not smell as sweet.   In the System Apocalypse, a single Title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare Titles possible.   Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For the Kyaz, it’s a chance in a million to get a rare Title. If he can manage to evade the machinations of a fellow Title Seeker and trust his human sidekick, Xi Ping.

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Title: Adventures in Clothing: A System Apocalypse Short Story

Series: #4 of The System Apocalypse Short stories

Author: Tao Wong

Narrator: Stephanie Dillard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 50 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2024

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Some quests require ass-kicking; others require clothing designers.   The System Apocalypse has brought the clothing industry, and just about everything else, to a grinding halt. Now Lana Pearson intends to kickstart the local industry into gear to help Vancouver self-sustain itself. Key to her strategy are special teams of non-combat Classes.   Meg, Hanna, Cassidy and Obrav are Cosplayers, Tailors, Models and more. Not your usual team combination at all. But it’s not your usual Quest they’ve been given. If they’re going to meet Lana’s needs, they’re going to have to think outside the sewing pattern.   Adventures in Clothing is a short story by Tao Wong, set in the bestselling post-apocalyptic universe the System Apocalypse.

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Title: The Sky Vault

Series: #3 of The Comet Cycle

Author: Benjamin Percy

Narrator: Michael David Axtell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2023

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investigation of a mysterious weather phenomena in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a government secret buried since WWII. The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. Now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds the atmosphere. When a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning, the sky opens and the aircraft vanishes…but only for a minute. When the flight lands, everyone on board and in the community will be changed forever. Chuck Bridges, a local DJ and conspiracy theorist, was on board and later reported dead to his family, but not before proclaiming that something inside the clouds was speaking to him. Now his son, Theo, must chase down answers to the mystery his father unlocked. He’ll find himself at odds with Sophie Chen, an agent with a shadowy employer desperate to secure the black box from the airplane, as well as Rolf Wagner, a widowed sheriff investigating a series of increasingly strange and unsettling reports. And then there is Joanna Straub, a contractor reconstructing a top-secret government lab active during WWII and shuttered deep within the nearby White Mountains. The answer to the comet’s origin is about to be unveiled, and its impact on Earth is more treacherous and sublime than humanity could imagine.

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Title: Always Coming Home: A Novel

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Isabella Star Leblanc, Yareli Arizmendi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2023

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

“One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . A study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like—for society and for the art of storytelling.''—The Millions Reissued for a new generation of readers, Always Coming Home is Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast, hailed as “masterly” (Newsweek), “hypnotic” (People) and “[her] most consistently lyric and luminous book” (New York Times). This new edition features an introduction by Shruti Swamy, author of A House is a Body, as well as illuminating extra material that includes interviews and liner notes to the book's musical soundtrack. Midway through her career, Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer’s fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated “translations” that illuminate individual lives, including a woman named Stone Telling, who travels beyond the Valley and comes to reside with another tribe, the patriarchal Condor people. With sharp poignancy, Le Guin explores the complexities of the Kesh’s unified society and presents to us—in exquisite detail—their lives, histories, adventures, customs, language, and art.  In addition to poems and folk tales, Le Guin created verse dramas, records of oral performances, recipes, and even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. The novel is illustrated throughout with drawings by artist Margaret Chodos and includes a musical component—original recordings of Kesh songs that Le Guin collaborated on with composer Todd Barton—bringing this utterly original and compelling world to life. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: More Perfect: The Circle meets Inception in this moving exploration of tech and connection.

Author: Adam Courting, Temi Oh

Narrator: Nneka Okoye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Release date: May 25, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

'A spectacular exploration of the power of technology...science fiction at its best' Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife "What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It’s like waking up for the first time ever. It’s like waking up with a third eye." When Moremi connects her brain to the Panopticon, a network which allows you to see inside the minds and dreams of others, she believes that it will save her from depression, loneliness and, eventually, death. That is until she meets Orpheus.  Orpheus was brought up in isolation by a Neo-luddite father. He was raised to question everything, including the government who plan to make the connection procedure compulsory.  They promise that connecting everyone to the Panopticon will end human suffering and usher in a more perfect world. But when Orpheus and Moremi uncover the dark side of the technology, they find themselves on opposite sides of a radical divide, between those who believe that the Panopticon will save humanity, and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it. More Perfect is The Circle meets Inception in an immersive and futuristic story that explores love, loneliness and the limits of technology’s ability to save a humanity who might not want to be saved.

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Title: Savage Webs: A LitRPG Cultivation Series

Series: #2 of Apocalypse Cultivation

Author: Blaise Corvin

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Jake is no longer human, he’s no longer on Earth, and he is about to find out that in the Murim world, he’s also low on the food chain.A final showdown with the evil god Ahriman is inevitable, and Jake also needs to survive his time in the Murim world to return back to Earth. Luckily, as a new divine champion, he’s about to be introduced to a special, champion-only reward system.But other champions are gunning for him now. Enemies who are more powerful, more seasoned, and who also have access to the same reward system that Jake does …Mere survival in the moment won’t cut it anymore. Jake will need to take his first real steps on a path to serious power.Book two in the next hit series from bestseller Blaise Corvin. This is a cultivation story with elements of Eastern fantasy, but also includes LitRPG and GameLit tropes.

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Title: Gates of Hope: A Military Sci-Fi Series

Series: #2 of Gate of Eternity

Author: Rick Partlow

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 14, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The good guys won the battle, but the war goes on.Wash Williams has been recruited to help Brian Reeves and the Delta Force team close gates to the worlds controlled by the Hive-Mind, while back on Thacia, Valon does the same thing from the other side.But new gates continue to open, and unless someone can figure out how to stop the effect, it will keep spreading and the war will never end.The only hope the Earthers and the Thacians have may be to work together in a desperate plan that risks the destruction of them both.

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Title: Wayward

Author: Chuck Wendig

Narrator: Xe Sands, Dominic Hoffman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 34 hours 27 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The thrilling sequel to the bestselling Wanderers, a 'career-defining epic [that] deserves its inevitable comparisons to Stephen King's The Stand'. (Publishers Weekly) They sleepwalked through an apocalypse; now they have to rebuild. Five years ago, they walked across America to a destination only they knew. The sleepwalkers, as the rest of the country named them, were followed by their shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. They finally stopped in Ouray, a small town of Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of human civilisation. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was just the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world - and the birth of a new one. The shepherds and the sleepwalkers, now awake, strive to rebuild the world that was taken from them. Among them are Benji, the scientist struggling through grief to lead; Marcy, the former police officer who just wants to protect those she loves; and Shana, the first to become a shepherd and whose bravery is sorely needed. But the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and the world they're building is fragile. Cruelty builds under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel, and in the very heart of Ouray itself is Black Swan, the A.I. who dreamt up the apocalypse. Against these threats, Benji, Marcy, Shana and the others have to find hope in each other. Because the only way to survive is together. 'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher © Chuck Wendig 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Wayward: A Novel

Series: #2 of Wanderers

Author: Chuck Wendig

Narrator: Xe Sands, Dominic Hoffman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 34 hours 27 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

“If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story.”—James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones “As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better.”—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world—and the birth of a new one. The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. Among them are Benji, the scientist struggling through grief to lead the town; Marcy, the former police officer who wants only to look after the people she loves; and Shana, the teenage girl who became the first shepherd—and an unlikely hero whose courage will be needed again. Because the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and the world they are building is fragile. The forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. who imagined the apocalypse. Against these threats, Benji, Marcy, Shana, and the rest have only one hope: one another. Because the only way to survive the end of the world is together.