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

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Title: The Legacy: James

Series: #1 of Legacy

Author: Tricia Wentworth

Narrator: Austin Rising

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Release date: June 21, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

His game plan was simple. Qualify for the Culling. Find a woman. Win the presidency. It was a carefully cultivated plan that dictated all his life's decisions . . . until two women upend everything. Twenty-one years after his parents won the presidency, a Culling is called. James has waited his entire life for this moment, a chance to carry on his parents' legacy. Meanwhile, whispers in Denver of an 'Heir's Curse' make a Reed winning the presidency seem impossible. A presidential heir has never won a Culling before, but there has also never been a Culling where three heirs could qualify. James and his siblings are determined to break the so-called curse and prove them all wrong. But when forced to choose between the easy love that could secure the presidency and a difficult one, what will James do?

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Title: Aeon Rising: The Apocalypse Begins

Series: #1 of Aeon

Author: Matthew Mather

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

An apocalyptic supernova flashes over the South Pole. A mysterious mission sent deep into the Amazon. The story of one family’s struggle to reunite …Max Carver, a down-on-his-luck truck driver and Army vet, joins a rescue mission into Brazil. The target is a utopian tech village, the Colony, hidden in the rainforest and run by a charismatic genius. Max’s pregnant wife, Talisha Carver, is the NSA analyst who intercepted encrypted Colony messages signaling a mysterious impending event.Dr. Xin Rou is a Chinese researcher working at the IceCube neutrino experiment at the South Pole. On lucky days a single flash might signal the passage of a ghostly interstellar particle. Suddenly, IceCube’s entire array lights up. A million detectors at once. Which is impossible. The Antarctic sky is clear and calm—but she is already running for the door.Because the world is about to end. But the mystery just begins …

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Title: Tempus Fury

Series: #3 of Time Shards

Author: Dana Fredsti, David Fitzgerald

Narrator: Aaron Shedlock

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodges threats from across history to locate the source and repair the damage before it's too late. When time shatters, the survivors must fight their way to the ends of the Earth before it's too late. They call it 'the Event'—an unimaginable cataclysm that renders 600 million years of the world's timeline into jumbled fragments. Our Earth is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of fractured remnants of the past, present, and future. All exist alongside one another in a nightmare patchwork of 'time shards'—some hundreds of miles long, and others no more than a few feet across. With surprising help from throughout history, an American girl and her companions first must save ancient Alexandria, the last bastion of civilization, from a panzer tank invasion. Then they will face the ultimate challenge at the end of the world . . . the shatterfield. Crossing it sends them on a final quest spanning time, space, and dimensions. Only then will they learn if their mission will save their world—or destroy it.

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Title: Aurora: A Novel

Author: David Koepp

Narrator: Rupert Friend

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW “Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down.' – Stephen King From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.  In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.  Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.  Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security. But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings—which not everyone will survive . . .  Aurora is suspenseful storytelling—both large scale and small—at its finest.

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Title: The City Inside

Author: Samit Basu

Narrator: Reena Dutt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. “They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.” Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life. Rudra is a recluse estranged from his wealthy and powerful family who fled to an impoverished immigrant neighborhood where he loses himself in video games and his neighbors’ lives. When his father’s death pulls him back into his family’s orbit, an impulsive job offer from Joey becomes his only escape from the life he never wanted. But no good deed goes unpunished. As Joey and Rudra become enmeshed in multiple conspiracies, their lives start to spin out of control, complicated by dysfunctional relationships, corporate loyalty, and the never-ending pressures of surveillance capitalism. When a bigger picture begins to unfold around them, they must each decide how to do the right thing in a shadowy world where simply maintaining the status quo feels like an accomplishment. Ultimately, resistance will not—cannot—take the same shape for these two very different people.

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Title: Aurora

Author: David Koepp

Narrator: Rupert Friend

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Release date: June 7, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Soon to be a film from Netflix and Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow. ‘Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down’ Stephen King ‘Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic’ Linwood Barclay When the lights go out no one is safe… A planet without power. When a solar storm hits the earth, the lights go out across the planet. But this time the blackout won’t be over soon – it could last for years. Aubrey and her stepson now face the biggest challenge of their lives. A society without rules. Soon they hear rumours of riots, the struggle for food becomes real, and even within their small communities, the rule of law is collapsing. Aubrey’s estranged brother Thom, a self-made billionaire who abandoned her years ago, retreats to a gilded desert bunker where he can ride out the crisis in perfect luxury. A race to build a better world… But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of a personal reckoning long overdue…

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Title: Domestication: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure

Series: #1 of Battle Mage Farmer

Author: Seth Ring

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Release date: May 31, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.9 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

A world on the precipice of the apocalypse. A secret forged in the flames of war. A chance to start over.For John Sutton, only one of those three things matters.Retired from a decade of brutal war, he wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the end.He’s been given a small farm on the outskirts of the empire as a thanks for his service, but no matter how far he travels, it’s impossible to escape the war’s devastating effects on the world.Bandits, suspicious townsfolk, a mysterious pair of siblings, and a secret that lurks in the mountains all threaten John’s peace. It will take all of his considerable power to keep from burning everything to the ground.

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Title: Walk the Vanished Earth: A Novel

Author: Erin Swan

Narrator: Keylor Leigh, Dylan Moore, Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

'This rich, endlessly engaging novel is, one hopes, the first in a long career for an author who has the talent and imagination to write whatever she wants.' --The New York Times In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotionally stirring dystopian novel about how our dreams of the future may shift as our environment changes rapidly, even as the earth continues to spin. The year is 1873, and a bison hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains, full of hope for his new country. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains; pregnant, mute, and raised in extreme seclusion, she lands in an institution, where a well-meaning psychiatrist struggles to decipher the pictures she draws of her past. The year is 2027 and, after a series of devastating storms, a tenacious engineer named Paul has left behind his banal suburban existence to build a floating city above the drowned streets that were once New Orleans. There with his poet daughter he rules over a society of dreamers and vagabonds who salvage vintage dresses, ferment rotgut wine out of fruit, paint murals on the ceiling of the Superdome, and try to write the story of their existence. The year is 2073, and Moon has heard only stories of the blue planet—Earth, as they once called it, now succumbed entirely to water. Now that Moon has come of age, she could become a mother if she wanted to–if only she understood what a mother is. Alone on Mars with her two alien uncles, she must decide whether to continue her family line and repopulate humanity on a new planet. A sweeping family epic, told over seven generations, as America changes and so does its dream, Walk the Vanished Earth explores ancestry, legacy, motherhood, the trauma we inherit, and the power of connection in the face of our planet’s imminent collapse. This is a story about the end of the world—but it is also about the beginning of something entirely new. Thoughtful, warm, and wildly prescient, this work of bright imagination promises that, no matter what the future looks like, there is always room for hope.

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Title: Black Tide

Author: Kc Jones

Narrator: John Pirhalla, Sophie Amoss

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Release date: May 31, 2022

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

'...narrators John Pirhalla and Sophie Amoss skillfully let the protagonists’ voices cycle through emotions like exhaustion, despair, and even hope.' -Library Journal A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones's Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day at the beach. And then the world ended. Mike and Beth didn't know each other existed before the night of the meteor shower. A melancholy film producer and a house sitter barely scraping by—chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. After a drunken and desperate one-night stand, the two strangers awake to discover a surprise astronomical event has left widespread destruction in its wake. But the cosmic lightshow was only part of something much bigger, and far more terrifying. When a set of lost car keys leaves them stranded on an empty stretch of Oregon coast, when their emergency calls go unanswered and inhuman screams echo from the dunes, when the rising tide reaches for their car and unspeakable horrors close in around them, these two self-destructive souls must band together to survive a nightmare of apocalyptic scale. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

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Title: The Sanctuary: the gripping must-read thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author

Author: Andrew Hunter Murray

Narrator: Andrew Hunter Murray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Release date: May 26, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. In a disintegrating and increasingly lawless land, a young man is travelling north. Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire philanthropist Sir John Pemberley. Now she has decided to break off their engagement and stay there for good. Ben resolves to travel to the island to win Cara back. But the journey there is a harsh and challenging one, and when he does arrive, a terrible shock awaits him. As Ben begins to find his way around Pemberley's perfect island, he knows he must also discover - what has made Cara so determined to throw her old life away? And is Sanctuary Rock truly a second Eden, as the mysterious Sir John claims - or a prospect of hell? By the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Last Day, this high-concept thriller will provoke and grip you from the very first page. © Andrew Hunter Murray 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022