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

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Title: Extinction Live

Author: Michael Mathiesen

Narrator: Michael Mathiesen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Things on Planet Earth are going badly. There is no political will to stop or greatly curtail the use of fossil fuels which year over year makes the planet's temperature rise steadily. The average Earth man or woman also refuses to limit their consumption or cut back on their expectations of the quality of their lives and so the raping of the Earth will continue. Like drug addicts few are able to cut down on their habits even though they know it's killing them. By the middle of this century it becomes extremely hard for many species to remain alive. Like the proverbial 'Canary in the coal mine' Birds are the first to go. Then, the bees go missing and this puts the food supplies of the world on the verge of disappearing. But the worst is yet to come. Temperatures get so hot that most mammals cannot live our normal lives and then we hit the Tipping Point and there is nothing we can do to turn things around. The permafrost melts, the oceans heat to such a degree that methane from the ocean floor pours out and completely alters the atmosphere into something almost impossible for humans to breathe. It's just a matter of time. Global institutions collapse and complete chaos ensues. As a measure of complete desperation scientists have stored all of the DNA preserving nearly every life form on Earth since it began, in totally sealed caverns in the northern parts of Greenland as a way of possibly returning all life to the Earth someday far in the future, if it can ever be cooled off and brought back to normal. At the same time, a Martian Colony, based out of 'Musk Station', the main population center on Mars is having great success terraforming the Martian atmosphere and using the knowledge gained to make an attempt to rescue the Earth. But by now, the Earth's temperature has soared to almost 900 Deg. F, the melting point of lead. No living thing, not even a blade of grass has survived on Earth. Is that the end of everything?

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Title: [German] - Every (Gekürzt)

Author: Dave Eggers

Narrator: Torben Kessler

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Release date: October 7, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Nach 'Der Circle' kommt jetzt die digitale Weltherrschaft: 'Every' Der Circle ist die größte Suchmaschine gepaart mit dem größten Social-Media-Anbieter der Welt. Eine Fusion mit dem erfolgreichsten Onlineversandhaus steht an, woraus das reichste und gefährlichste - seltsamerweise auch beliebteste - Monopol aller Zeiten entsteht: Every. Delaney Wells ist 'die Neue' bei Every und nicht gerade das, was man erwarten würde in einem Tech-Unternehmen. Als ehemalige Försterin und unerschütterliche Technikskeptikerin bahnt sie sich heimlich ihren Weg, mit nur einem Ziel vor Augen: die Firma von innen heraus zu zerschlagen. Zusammen mit ihrem Kollegen, dem nicht gerade ehrgeizigen Wes Kavakian, sucht sie nach den Schwachstellen von Every und hofft, die Menschheit von der allumfassenden Überwachung und der emojigesteuerten Infantilisierung zu befreien. Aber will die Menschheit überhaupt, wofür Delaney kämpft? Will die Menschheit wirklich frei sein?

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Title: The Correctional Facility: A Journey into Dante's Inferno and the Ensuing Metastasis of Evil

Author: Bill Schubart

Narrator: Kent Cassella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Release date: October 2, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Raised as a Catholic in rural Vermont, I was infused with an awareness of sin and penitence, but also absolution and forgiveness. My late teenage encounter with Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” shattered my youthful allegiance to Catholic dogma, but it’s one thing to walk away from Catholic doctrine and quite another to lose the weight of its beauty, fear, and guilt. Shortly after I read The Brothers Karamazov, in which “The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” occurs as a story told by Ivan Karamazov, the sybarite, to his novice monk brother, Alyosha, I read Dante’s Inferno. I was fascinated by the vivid portrayal of the hell I’d heard about so graphically from the Québécois sisters who came down to teach Saturday morning catechism. I saw in Dante’s work and the extraordinary illustrations of Gustav Doré the hell I had imagined in catechism, a hell that haunts my imagination to this day. Is sin a temporal concept? Some of the sins of Dante’s time are not viewed as such today: heresy, suicide, concupiscence. His simple architecture of human sin is lost today in scale and technology. In 1320, one killed with one’s hands or with a piercing weapon like a stiletto, battle-axe, or sword, or with poison. Today, we have drones, nuclear bombs, and industrial toxins leaching into our soil, water, food, and air — and Pharma: subliminal mass homicides. The Correctional Facility comes after a lifetime of living with Catholicism and Dante’s weight of sin, evil, punishment, expiation, and redemption, and is my effort to make sense of it all.

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Title: No Surrender

Series: #4 of Fall of Houston

Author: T.L. Payne

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Release date: September 28, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The battle is far from over. Surviving each day is still a perilous struggle, and the farm may not be the safe haven Will Fontenot had hoped. Will's homecoming to Calcasieu Parish is anything but welcoming as he comes face to face with the Blanchards, a local crime family who have taken over the town. But long-strained family ties are strengthened when Will's cousins come to the rescue. A new community is formed as residents of Sugar Cove Road band together to protect their loved ones. As one thing leads to another, they become increasingly unable to secure their community against a much more powerful foe than the Blanchards. With foreign fighters quickly approaching, a decision must be made: flee with what they can carry—or stand and fight. They are outnumbered and ill-equipped for the battle that is again at their doorsteps. The lives of everyone Will loves are on the line, and he'll do whatever it takes to protect them.

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Title: [Spanish] - El Rithmatista

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Narrator: Marcel Navarro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Release date: September 23, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

El Rithmatista, novela elegida por The New York Times Book Review como uno de los diez mejores libros juveniles del año de su publicación, es la primera novela para el público adolescente de Brandon Sanderson (y para todos los públicos). El sistema de magia que en él presenta ya ha seducido a miles de lectores amantes de los juegos de estrategia. Más que nada en la vida, Joel quiere ser un rithmatista. Elegidos en una misteriosa ceremonia, estos tienen el poder de infundir vida a figuras bidimensionales y, además, constituyen la única defensa de la humanidad contra unas despiadadas criaturas que amenazan todas las islas americanas dejando un reguero de cadáveres a su paso. Pero cuando varios estudiantes para rithmatista empiezan a desaparecer, con visibles muestras de violencia física, Joel es designado como ayudante del profesor que investiga dichos casos. De pronto, el chico se encuentra tras la pista de un descubrimiento inesperado, que cambiará su mundo para siempre. Reseña: «Brandon Sanderson es una leyenda.» Alexelcapo, @EvilAFM

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Title: [German] - Die schwarze Maske - Der Puzzler, Band 2 (ungekürzt)

Author: Eyal Kless

Narrator: Josef Vossenkuhl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Release date: September 16, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Rafik, der Puzzler, war ein Kind, bevor er sich in die größte Bedrohung seiner Welt verwandelte. Er gab seine körperliche Existenz auf, doch der Tod bedeutet für Rafik nicht das Ende. Dies gilt auch für den letzten Überlebenden der Gilde der Historiker: Funkelauge konnte Rafik im Kampf nicht besiegen, doch nun erhält er eine zweite Chance: Er kehrt von den Toten zurück und reist in die zwielichtige Stadt der Türme, wo schweres Geschütz und eine große Portion Glück vonnöten sein werden, um zu überleben. Denn Funkelauge wird verfolgt von seiner Vergangenheit, einem tödlichen Geheimnis und einem Mörder aus einer vergangenen Zeit.

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Title: Hell Divers VIII: King of the Wastes

Series: #8 of Hell Divers Series

Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series Face the uncertain future without fear … A year has passed since the Hell Divers defeated the machines at Kilimanjaro. The freed captives have settled into their new home at the Vanguard Islands, joining survivors from around the world. But extreme weather and failed crops have raised the specter of famine. Ships must push deeper into dangerous red zones, only to come back with less loot—and fewer soldiers. When the Hell Divers discover a scroll on a raid, King Xavier is faced with a long-buried truth that threatens the future of his people and all of humanity. The Vanguard Islands are not the salvation the sky people thought them to be. To survive, they must venture through the Panama Canal and into the wastes beyond. With the future at stake, the Immortal once again dons his armor. But there is a reason the great Cazador armies never returned from the canal, and this time not even the King of the Wastes is prepared for what awaits them.

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Title: The Offset

Author: Calder Swezczak

Narrator: Serena Matenghi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death.  Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren’t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life’s work?   In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. Days before their Offset ceremony where one of her mothers must be sentenced to death, she is brought back against her will following a run-in with the law. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?

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Title: Lights Out in Lincolnwood

Author: Geoff Rodkey

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin, Jesse Vilinsky, Allyson Ryan, Fred Berman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Release date: September 2, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes all it takes to bring a family together is the possible end of the world   Meet the Altman family.   Fifty-something Dan is struggling to cope with a mid-life career change. MBA-educated wife and mother Jen has dealt with life’s disappointments by becoming a closet alcoholic. Seventeen-year-old Chloe is obsessing about getting into the right university and her state tennis semifinals. Fourteen-year-old Max is trying to figure out when he can next sneak a puff on his beloved vape and plotting revenge on the school bully.   They’re a normal family with normal problems.   Until, one day, the lights go out.   Mobile phones don't work. Lights, laptops, cars, trains – anything that uses electricity – just stops.   And what happens next will change everything… Funny and heart-warming, Lights Out in Lincolnwood is the story of one ordinary family and their unexpected adventure of a lifetime 'Utterly addictive' Victoria Selman 'A darkly comic and refreshingly unique story' Lisa Hall

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Title: [German] - Born (Ungekürzt)

Author: Kris Brynn

Narrator: Grace Risch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2021

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Düster, hochspannend - und beklemmend realistisch: Der Noir-Thriller 'Born' spielt in einer nahen Zukunft, in der Europa den Krieg um wesentliche Ressourcen verloren hat. Deutschland in der nahen Zukunft: Der Große Sandkrieg hat das Land fast unbewohnbar gemacht, die Bevölkerung drängt sich in gigantischen Mega-Citys. Riesige Farmen außerhalb sichern die Versorgung mit dem Nötigsten - oder dem, was die Regierung für nötig hält. Nalani hält sich als Taxifahrerin in der Mega-City Born über Wasser, stets begleitet von Fergus, ihrem KFZ-Notfall-Hologramm, das sich nicht mehr deaktivieren lässt und so ziemlich alles besser weiß. Ihr Leben gerät gründlich aus den Fugen, als ihr Bruder Tomas sie verzweifelt kontaktiert: Auf den Farmen, die von sogenannten Brüdern und Schwestern nach einem alttestamentarischen Kodex geleitet werden, läuft etwas gründlich schief, und Nalani, die Tag für Tag mit dem übelsten Abschaum zurechtkommen muss, ist seine letzte Rettung ... In ihrem Noir-Thriller 'Born' lässt Kris Brynn, die Autorin von 'The Shelter - Zukunft ohne Hoffnung' und 'Out of Balance', eine beklemmend realistische Vision der Zukunft entstehen. Die richtige Dosis Action, spritzige Dialoge und viel Atmosphäre machen den Thriller zu einem echten Highlight.