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

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Title: Denial

Author: Jon Raymond

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Release date: July 26, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE A futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce. The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet’s fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent Nuremberg-like Toronto Trials convicted the most powerful oil executives and lobbyists for crimes against the environment. Not all of them. A few executives escaped arrest and went into hiding, including pipeline mastermind Robert Cave. Now, a Pacific Northwest journalist named Jack Henry who works for a struggling media company has received a tip that Cave is living in Mexico. Hoping the story will save his job, he travels south and, using a fake identity, makes contact with the fugitive. The two men strike up an unexpected friendship, leaving Jack torn about exposing Cave—an uncertainty further compounded by the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness and a new romance with an old acquaintance. Who will really benefit from the unmasking? What is the nature of justice and punishment? How does one contend with mortality when the planet itself is dying? Denial is both a page-turning speculative suspense novel and a powerful existential inquisition about the perilous moment in which we currently live.

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Title: Dead Water

Author: C. A. Fletcher

Narrator: Siobhan Redmond

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Release date: July 19, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

In a chilling blend of folk horror and twisting suspense, this modern masterpiece depicts isolation and dread within a small island community.   There's something in the water...   On the edge of the Northern Atlantic lies a remote island. The islanders are an outwardly harmonious community—but all have their own secrets, some much darker than others. And when a strange disorder begins to infect them all, those secrets come to light.   Ferry service fails and contact with the mainland is lost. Rumors begin to swirl as a temporary inconvenience grows into nightmarish ordeal. The fabric of the once tight-knit island is unnervingly torn apart—and whatever the cause, the question soon stops being how or why it happened, but who, if anyone, will survive.

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Title: Ymir

Author: Rich Larson

Narrator: Alan Medcroft

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Release date: July 12, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

A gripping, far-future retelling of Beowulf from an award-winning author, perfect for fans of Richard K. Morgan. Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. He left Ymir two decades ago, with half his face blown off and no love lost for the place. But when his employer's mines are threatened by a vicious alien machine, Yorick is shipped back home to hunt it. All he wants is to do his job and get out. Instead, Yorick is pulled into a revolution brewing beneath Ymir's frozen surface, led by the very last person he wanted to see again—the brother who sent him off in pieces twenty years ago.

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Title: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book

Series: #2 of Monk & Robot

Author: Becky Chambers

Narrator: Em Grosland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Release date: July 12, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.88 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built 'This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a world listeners will yearn to return to.' -AudioFile on A Prayer for the Crown-Shy A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter? A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com

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Title: The Ends

Series: #4 of The Anomaly Quartet

Author: James Smythe

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Join an awe-inspiring journey through a world where death has stopped in the finale of James Smythe’s acclaimed Anomaly Quartet. Decades ago, a vast object called the Anomaly was discovered moving through space. Missions sent to explore it found that anyone entering the Anomaly was unable to die. It kept moving, across our solar system, until finally the Anomaly enveloped Earth. Thirty years later, on the West Coast of the US, Theo hears that his missing wife has been sighted – in London. He’s sick, and getting worse, so he sets off to find her. Theo’s quest will take him across continents, through abandoned cities and new communities, meeting with bandits, artists, and cultists, murderers and heroes and survivors. Because this is a world of humanity at its absolute worst, and at its very best. A world where everything has been irrevocably altered, yet somehow still remains the same.

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Title: Flames of Mira

Author: Clay Harmon

Narrator: Luke Francis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Release date: July 5, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. People like Ig are born from life-threatening trials that bind periodic elements to the human body, forged in the boiling volcanoes and subterranean passages under Mira's frozen lands. One of the most powerful known elementals, he is forced to work as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann - cursed with a flesh binding - magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience. When Sorrelo is overthrown, Ig quickly learns he can do worse - far worse - than what has been asked from him so far. If he can't escape the flesh binding in time, Ig will have to kill friend and foe alike as his master seeks to reclaim the throne or sacrifice himself trying. © Clay Harmon (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

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Title: The Measure

Author: Nikki Erlick

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Release date: July 5, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

‘GRIPPING AND POIGNANT’ RUTH HOGAN, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things ‘CLEVER AND ENTERTAINING’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ’ PRIMA Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like just another morning. Around the world, people wake up, check the news, open the front door. On every doorstep is a box. Inside that box is the exact number of years that person has left to live. Whether they open it or hide it under their bed, each person must learn to live in this new world: a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush their life together, a doctor who cannot save himself from his own fate, best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything… Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is a sweeping, ambitious and invigorating story about family, friendship, hope and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest. ‘EXAMINES THE BIG LIFE AND DEATH QUESTIONS IN A CLEVER AND, DARE WE SAY IT, ENTERTAINING WAY’ WOMAN & HOME ‘INTRIGUING’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY ‘LIFE-AFFIRMING’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, bestselling author of Vox ‘DESPITE ITS CHILLING PREMISE, ERLICK’S NOVEL IS AN ESCAPE FROM — RATHER THAN A WINDOW INTO — OUR OWN TERRIFYING REALITY’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING’ Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding 'A SHARP LENS FOR REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS' DAILY MAIL ‘A HEARTFELT PARABLE FOR OUR OWN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES’ Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of One Two Three ‘BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED AND HUGELY IMAGINATIVE’ Claire North ‘BRILLIANT – I COULDN’T STOP READING’ Christina Sweeney-Baird ‘UTTERLY ORIGINAL AND WONDERFULLY MYSTERIOUS’ Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane ‘HUGELY COMPELLING’ Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library ‘AN IRRESISTIBLE HOOK AND A STRONG EMOTIONAL HEART’ Luke Allnutt, author of We Own the Sky

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Title: Thrust: A Novel

Author: Lidia Yuknavitch

Narrator: Dominique Franceschi, Austin Ku, Tl Thompson, Omar Leyva, Darrell Dennis, Natasha Soudek, Graham Halstead, Ron Butler, Robbie Daymond, Kathleen Gati, Karen Murray, Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Release date: June 28, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER THRUST IS: “Epic.” –The New York Times “A triumph.” —Elle “Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast “Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books “A book to take in wide-eyed.”  —Rebecca Makkai NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST As rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a 'carrier' travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisvė must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives—and their shared dream of freedom.   A dazzling novel of body, spirit, and survival, Thrust will leave no reader unchanged.

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Title: G. K. Chesterton: Three BBC Radio Mysteries: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Club of Queer Trades & The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Author: G.K. Chesterton

Narrator: Stuart Organ, Kim Wall, Roger Hammond, Geoffrey Mcgivern, Paul Mcgann, David Collings, Martin Freeman, David Warner, Full Cast, Geoffrey Palmer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton Best known as the creator of clerical detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and talented writer in virtually every area of literature: from novels, poetry and short stories to plays, biographies and essays. A noted thinker, controversialist, raconteur and wit, he has influenced authors from Neil Gaiman to Jorge Luis Borges. This collection comprises his two most famous novels, The Man Who Was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Hill, as well as half a dozen tales from his short story collection, The Club of Queer Trades. The Man Who Was Thursday - Poet turned Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme goes undercover in Edwardian London to investigate a secret society of anarchists - all of whom are named after days of the week... Read by Geoffrey Palmer. The Club of Queer Trades - In these six full-cast comedy crime dramas, retired KC Basil Grant, his brother Rupert and friend Charlie Swinburne explore the extraordinary stories of people who earn their living by some novel and unusual means. Starring David Warner as Basil, Martin Freeman as Rupert and Geoffrey McGivern as Charlie. The Napoleon of Notting Hill- Written in 1904, Chesterton's comic political satire is set in London 80 years on. The city is still full of horse-buses and hansom cabs, but democracy is dead, and the King is chosen by lottery. No one cares, because none of it matters - until the choice falls on Auberon Quin... This full-cast drama stars Roger Hammond as G. K. Chesterton and David Collings as Auberon Quin, with Kim Wall, Stuart Organ and Paul McGann. First published 1904 (The Napoleon of Notting Hill), 1905 (The Club of Queer Trades), 1908 (The Man Who Was Thursday) The Man Who Was Thursday Read by Geoffrey Palmer Directed by Lawrence Jackson First broadcast BBC Radio 7, 10-28 March 2005 The Club of Queer Trades Basil Grant - David Warner Rupert Grant - Martin Freeman Charlie Swinburne - Geoffrey McGivern Major Brown/Lord Beaumont - Geoffrey Whitehead Lady - Vicki Pepperdine PG Northover/Gardener/Old Man/Constable/Dr Colman - Martin Hyder Drummond - Nicholas Farrell Wimpole/Burrows - Justin Edwards Sir Walter Chumley/Rev Shorter - Richard Griffiths Muriel - Alice Lowe James - Alexei Sayle Mowbray - Nell Edmond Brett - Matthew Holness Lieutenant Keith - Jeff Harding Montmorency - Simon Jones Christina - Amelia Bullmore Bingham - Chris Douglas Adeleide - Felicity Montagu Prof Chadd - John Nettleton Greenwood - James Rawlings Old Lady - Angela Thorne Dramatised by Simon Littlefield Produced by Simon Nicholls First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4 April-9 May 2005 The Napoleon of Notting Hill G. K. Chesterton - Roger Hammond Auberon Quin - David Collings Wilfred Lambert - Kim Wall James Barker - Stephen Hattersley President del Fuego - Manning Wilson Policeman/Mr Wilson - Stuart Organ Boy Adam Wayne - Alexander Goodman Adam Wayne - Paul McGann Mr Buck - Aubrey Woods Mr Mead - Paul Gregory Mr Bowles - Brian Hewlett Mr Turnbull - Gordon Reid Dramatised by Peter Buckman Produced by Eric Stovell Directed by Richard Imison First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 December 1986 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: [Spanish] - Rebelión en la granja

Author: George Orwell

Narrator: Israel Elejalde

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Release date: June 22, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

1. Todo lo que camina sobre dos pies es un enemigo. 2. Todo lo que camina sobre cuatro patas o tiene alas es un amigo. 3. Ningún animal usará ropa. 4. Ningún animal dormirá en una cama. 5. Ningún animal beberá alcohol. 6. Ningún animal matará a otro animal. 7. Todos los animales son iguales. Estos son los Siete Mandamientos iniciales que quedaron escritos en la pared trasera del gran granero y que formarían una ley inalterable por la cual todos los animales de la Granja Animal deberían vivir para siempre, tras expulsar al granjero Jones. Así es como el grupo de animales de la granja, comenzaría un sistema de gobierno propio que acaba convirtiéndose en una nueva tiranía. 'Rebelión en la granja' es una breve novela satírica del escritor británico George Orwell. Publicada en 1945, la obra nos ofrece una fábula mordaz sobre cómo el régimen soviético de Stalin corrompe el socialismo.