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

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Title: Red Unicorn: A Supernatural Thriller

Series: #1 of Red Unicorn

Author: Weston Ochse

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

This is not your daughter’s unicorn. No glittery pink stuffed animal. No. The Red Unicorn means certain death …Ex-Pat American Vietnam War Vet Amboy Stevens wants nothing more than to live in peace in 1982 Argentina. But with the Falkland Islands War raging, he is forced to protect a fellow six-fingered American girl who has lost her memory.They stumble upon a myth as ancient as humanity itself and are soon on the run from warlocks, Nazi treasure hunters, the cult of the unicorn, and sorcerers who want the pair for their own nefarious reasons. From Buenos Aires to the Island at the End of the World, they are chased, harassed, possessed, attacked, and beleaguered.Worse. The Red Unicorn is near. If they hope to survive, they'll need to work together. Because their meeting wasn’t accidental. It's been predicted ever since they were born, their six-fingered hands an interlocking symbol that no one else can replicate.

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Title: Across the Sand

Author: Hugh Howey

Narrator: Jeremy Arthur

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

“Hugh’s imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!” —Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand. In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand divers ever to comb the desert’s depths. But these branches of their family tree are long gone, disappeared into the wastes beyond, leaving the younger siblings scratching in the dust, hopeful for a better life.  On the other side of No Man’s Land, Anya was born beside the abundant mines knowing her prospects would be to marry, have a family, and work in ore, in service to the Empire of the East. But when an atomic bomb delivered by a stranger destroys most of her town—murdering all her friends and community—she follows her father to a strange land of dunes to bring vengeance to their enemies. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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Title: The Revivalists: A Novel

Author: Christopher M. Hood

Narrator: Gary Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

“The Revivalists is a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut, written in such exquisitely precise prose that I felt singed by its imaginary fires and warmed by its beating heart. Chris Hood's nightmarish cross-country family odyssey is also one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read.”—Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Orange World A stunning debut novel about a couple’s harrowing journey across a ravaged America to save their daughter. Bill and Penelope are the lucky ones. Not only do they survive the Shark Flu emerging from the melting Icelandic permafrost to sweep like a scythe across the world, but they begin to rebuild a life in the wreckage of the old. A garden to feed themselves planted where the lawn used to be, a mattress pulled down to the living room fireplace for warmth. Even Bill’s psychology practice endures the collapse of the social order, the handful of remaining clients bartering cans of food for their sessions. But when their daughter’s voice over the radio in the kitchen announces that she’s joined a cult three thousand miles away in Bishop, California, they leave it all behind to embark on a perilous trek across the hollowed-out remains of America to save her.  Their journey is an unforgettable odyssey through communities scattered across the continent, but for all the ways that the world has changed, the hopes and fears of this little family remain the same as they always have been. In The Revivalists, Christopher M. Hood creates a haunting, moving, darkly funny, and ultimately hopeful portrait of a world and a marriage tested by extraordinary circumstances.

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

Series: #1 of Gate of Eternity

Author: Rick Partlow

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Kyle Washaki 'Wash' Williams thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated. Then the aliens showed up …After his mom died from cancer, Wash gave up his girlfriend and his dream of being a career Army officer to stay home and take care of his father, a former Special Forces soldier stricken with PTSD. Wash works three jobs just to pay the bills, and one of them is at the ranch of the man who’s engaged to his exgirlfriend, Jimmy Bonner.Sound rough? He thought so too … until a portal to a hell-world of giant, insectoid aliens opens behind the ranch house, sucking Wash and Jimmy into the nightmare domain of the Hive Mind, a monstrous, underground blob of brain tissue that stretches across multiple planets through the Gate System.It exists only to spread itself across the universe. And its next target is Earth.Will Wash be able to defend the planet from conquest by a swarm of giant alien insects? And will Jimmy be able to put aside his rivalry with Wash to fight for Earth, or will he decide that an alien horde is the perfect tool to dispose of his old enemy?The answer lies on the other side … of the Gates of Hell.

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Title: Lost in Time

Author: A.G. Riddle

Narrator: John Skelley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

'Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ...'—Diana Gabaldon'Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise … with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough.'—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewPANGEA, 202,320,641 BCQuantum physicist Sam Anderson is trapped, 202 million years in the past. Sam has helped create a machine able to unpick the threads of spacetime, casting objects eternally into the past. It’s useful only as a permanent means of disposal—and in a world where criminals need to be punished, that’s exactly how it will be used.But Sam’s invention will become his undoing, the judicial penalty for a crime that he confessed to, but didn’t commit. It’s a death sentence.Now he’s on a raw and hostile planet, stalked by dinosaurs, in the midst of a mass extinction event, and unlikely to survive the night. But he can’t give up, because he has to save his family, who are 202 million years in the future …UNITED STATES, AD 2027Adeline is an orphan—her mother died three years ago when she was sixteen, and her father is lost 202 million years ago, in the late Triassic.Adeline knows he sacrificed his life to save hers, but her determination to find the truth reveals more questions. What has unnerved her father’s ex-colleagues? What are they secretly digging for in the desert?Adeline will do whatever it takes to get to the truth, because somewhere, 202 million years in the past, her father is still alive …

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Title: [Spanish] - Arena One: Slaverunners (Book #1 of the Survival Trilogy)

Series: #1 of [Spanish Edition] Survival Trilogy

Author: Morgan Rice

Narrator: Angie Acosta

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

De Morgan Rice, escritora de DIARIO DE UN VAMPIRO, número uno en ventas, llega el primer libro de una nueva trilogía de ficción distópica. Nueva York. 2120. Estados Unidos ha sido diezmado, exterminado por la Segunda Guerra Civil. En este mundo post apocalíptico, los sobrevivientes son escasos. Y la mayoría de ellos son miembros de una pandilla violenta de predadores que vive en las grandes ciudades. Ellos patrullan la campiña buscando esclavos, nuevas víctimas para llevar a la ciudad, para su deporte mortal favorito: la Arena Uno. El estadio de la muerte, donde los adversarios son obligados a pelear hasta la muerte, de manera salvaje. Sólo hay una regla en la Arena: nadie sobrevive. Nunca. En lo más profundo del desierto, en las Montañas Catskill, Brooke Moore, de 17 años, logra sobrevivir, escondiéndose con su hermana menor, Bree. Ellas tienen el cuidado de evitar las pandillas de tratantes de esclavos que patrullan la campiña. Pero un día, Brooke no es tan cuidadosa como siempre, y atrapan a Bree. Los tratantes de esclavos se la llevan, rumbo a la ciudad, a lo que será una muerte segura. Brooke, es hija de un Infante de la Marina, quien fue criada para ser ruda, para nunca dar marcha atrás en una pelea. Brooke se moviliza, usa todo lo que está a su alcance para perseguir a los tratantes de esclavos y recuperar a su hermana. En el camino conoce a Ben, de 17 años, otro sobreviviente como ella, cuyo hermano fue secuestrado. Juntos hacen equipo en su misión de rescate. Lo que sigue es el suspenso post apocalíptico, lleno de acción, ya que ambos persiguen a los tratantes de esclavos por el viaje más peligroso de sus vidas, siguiéndolos hasta el corazón de Nueva York. En el camino, si sobreviven, tendrán que tomar algunas de las decisiones más difíciles de su vida y hacer sacrificios, encontrando obstáculos que ninguno de los dos esperaba, incluyendo los sentimientos inesperados que tienen uno por el otro. ¿Rescatarán a sus hermanos? ¿Regresarán? ¿Tendrán que pelear en el estadio? ARENA UNO es el Libro # 1 de la Trilogía de Sobrevivientes, y contiene 85,000 palabras. Debo reconocer, que antes de ARENA UNO, nunca había leído nada post apocalíptico. Nunca pensé que sería algo que disfrutaría… Bueno, pues me sorprendió agradablemente lo adictivo que es este libro. ARENA UNO es uno de esos libros que lees en la noche hasta que empiezas a ver bizco porque no quieres soltarlo… No es un secreto que me gustan las heroínas fuertes de los libros que leo… Brooke es ruda, fuerte, implacable y aunque hay romance en el libro, Brooke no se guió por eso… Recomiendo ampliamente a ARENA UNO“. --Dallas Examiner “Llamó mi atención desde el principio y no lo solté. Esta historia es una aventura sorprendente de gran ritmo y llena de acción, desde el principio. No hay ningún momento aburrido”. --Paranormal Romance Guild (refiriéndose a Turned) “Tiene una gran trama, y este libro en especial es uno de los que no pude dejar de leer en la noche. El final es de suspenso tal, que de inmediato quieres comprar el siguiente libro, solo para ver lo que sucederá”. --The Dallas Examiner {acerca de Loved} “Morgan Rice se demuestra a sí misma una vez más, que es una narradora sumamente talentosa… Esto le gustará a varios tipos de público, incluyendo a los jóvenes a quienes les gusta el género de vampiros/fantasía. Terminó con en un suspenso tan inesperado que le dejará asombrado”. --Reseñas de Romance {en referencia a Loved}

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Title: Germination: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure

Series: #2 of Battle Mage Farmer

Author: Seth Ring

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 23, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Book two of the next great fantasy LitRPG series by Seth Ring, author of Nova Terra. Explore a world whose secrets have been buried under decades of war.Mixing slice-of-life with epic fantasy action, mystery, magic, cultivation, and a broken game system that seems determined to make everything as hard as possible for the already overpowered protagonist, this LitRPG/GameLit series is perfect for readers who enjoy exploring rich worlds and complex characters.

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Title: The Last White Man: The New York Times Bestseller 2022

Author: Mohsin Hamid

Narrator: Mohsin Hamid

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Release date: August 11, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew. Praise for Exit West 'Hamid's enticing strategy is to foreground the humanity. . . . [He] exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' - O, the Oprah Magazine 'Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith '[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian © Mohsin Hamid 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: The Women Could Fly: A Novel

Author: Megan Giddings

Narrator: Angel Pean

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Release date: August 9, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 1.67 of Total 3

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times—a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman—especially a Black woman—can find herself on trial for witchcraft.   But fourteen years have passed since her mother’s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of 30—or enroll in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At 28, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she’s offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time. In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face—and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them.

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Title: The Awoken: A Novel

Author: Katelyn Monroe Howes

Narrator: Sarah Naughton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Release date: August 9, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

'The Awoken is a phenomenal story—filled with action, romance, plot twists, and a few big juicy reveals!' —Issa Rae A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of her death and wakes up a century later in a world where her very life is a crime. When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics.    A century later, scientists have indeed discovered how to bring the dead back from preservation, but humanity has been locked in a philosophical battle over the ethics of this new Godlike power, a battle that has turned violent: Those who are resurrected, the Awoken, have been declared illegal and are to be shot on sight.    This is the world Alabine is brought into by the Resurrectionists, an underground militia fighting for the rights of the Awoken. Finding herself in a completely unfamiliar world, and one where she is an outsider for the first time in her life, Alabine must figure out how to survive and determine her place in this new society, all while being haunted by lucid memories of her previous life and the man she loved.    The Awoken is a gripping, action-packed story full of plot twists and high emotion. It's a look at prejudice, complicity, the fears that tear us apart, and the hope that can bring us together.