Classic Sci-Fi

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.

Brave New World

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aldous Huxley
• Narrated By Michael York

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
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If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There’s just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea. And did anyone actually make a reservation?

Dune

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Frank Herbert
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.

The Sirens of Titan

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Kurt Vonnegut
• Narrated By Jay Snyder
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The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation....

Blade Runner: Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Philip K. Dick
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

Necronomicon

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 1 min)
• By H. P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, and others

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released.

Ringworld

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Tom Parker
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Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Martin Freeman
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There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It’s not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he’s the only human who’s been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchurch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she’s forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God’s Final Message to His Creation they go in search of it. And in a dramatic break with tradition - actually find it....

Frankenstein

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Mary Shelley
• Narrated By Derek Jacobi

The tale of Dr. Frankenstein and the horrendous monster he unleashes on the world when he tinkers with the laws of nature had almost as strange a birth as the monster itself. It was the product of one of the most famous ghost story telling sessions in history. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and several others were stranded on the shores of Lake Geneva during a particularly sodden summer.

The Man in the High Castle

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Philip K. Dick
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

Dune Messiah

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Frank Herbert
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, and others

The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?

Children of Dune

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Frank Herbert
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Simon Vance
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.

Dawn: Xenogenesis, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Octavia E. Butler
• Narrated By Aldrich Barrett

In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened", she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever.

The Black Cloud

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Fred Hoyle
• Narrated By Jack Klaff, Richard Dawkins
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As an immense cloud of gas enters the solar system, it blocks the sun, threatening to wipe out most of life on Earth. In Britain, a team of scientists gathers at a secret location to deal with the crisis. But as the months pass, what they learn will challenge everything they believe about the nature of life and the universe.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Tertiary Phase (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast

Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'.

Cat's Cradle

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Kurt Vonnegut
• Narrated By Tony Roberts
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Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this century's most important works...and Vonnegut at his very best.

Foundation

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Isaac Asimov
• Narrated By Scott Brick

For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future, to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last 30,000 years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire, both scientists and scholars, and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations.

Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories

• UNABRIDGED (54 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Narrated By Eric Vincent

Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories is an audiobook collection of seven novels/stories of John Carter by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It will transport you to a fascinating new world unlike any other. Join John Carter as he finds himself on another planet beyond his deepest imagination - Mars, with almost a complete lack of resources.

Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 5

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Simon Guerrier, Una McCormack, James Goss
• Narrated By Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Sally Knyvette, and others

Three enhanced audiobooks performed by the stars of the classic BBC television series. These stories are set during Series 2. Includes Logic by Simon Guerrier, Risk Management by Una McCormack and Three by James Goss.

Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 3: The Armageddon Storm

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
• Narrated By Jan Chappell, Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, and others

The Armageddon Storm Parts One, Two and Three is an enhanced audiobook performed by the stars of the classic BBC television series. When mercenary Del Grant alerts the Liberator crew to the existence of a new Federation super-weapon, Avon leads an epic battle to avert catastrophe....

Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 10

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Steve Lyons, Una McCormack, Andrew Smith
• Narrated By Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jacqueline Pearce, and others

Three enhanced audiobooks performed by the stars of the classic BBC television series. Velandra: Blake is having bad dreams: a swamp, wolves, a woman called Velandra...and Travis. Could this be a memory that was erased by the Federation? Retribution: A distress call leads Avon and Vila to Ragnus Lang, formerly Vila's partner-in-crime. And now Lang needs Blake's help. Ministry of Peace: Is the planet Speranza a beacon of hope in the fight against the Federation, or is its history about to take a darker path?

Blake's 7 - The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 9

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Cavan Scott, Mark Wright
• Narrated By Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, and others

Defector: Avon orders Tarrant and new crewmember Del Grant to assassinate a Federation figurehead. Has he gone too far this time? Planetfall: can Avon and Cally get off Space Station Arcadia before it crashes into the planet below? Secrets: with the future of the rebellion in jeopardy, Vila and Grant infiltrate an illegal arms bazaar - but who exactly is Solvin Tavac, and what does he want with the crew of the Liberator?

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Ingersoll Lockwood
• Narrated By Gildart Jackson
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Ingersoll Lockwood invented the fictional character Baron Trump in 1890 for a two-part sci-fi/fantasy series about a privileged boy who undertakes a sequence of fantastic voyages. The style of the Baron Trump series - a mix of fantasy and young-listener-oriented science fiction - anticipated and may have influenced L. Frank Baum's Oz series. The second in that series, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, describes Baron's trip to the Earth's interior via an opening in the Russian Arctic.

The Time Machine HCR104fm Edition

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 20 mins)
• By H. G. Wells
• Narrated By Michael Ward
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In this groundbreaking tale by H. G. Wells, a Victorian-era time traveller explores a distant and dystopian future populated by fragile Eloi and bestial Morlocks underground....

Sslits

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Michael Vance
• Narrated By Michael Goldsmith

In 1947, just outside of Corona, New Mexico, on a hot July day, a flying saucer crash lands in the desert. The government immediately sends in the military and has the alien craft and its crew transported to an airbase in Roswell. Four of the five alien voyagers are dead; the fifth, a huge, gelatinous creature, becomes the sole focus of their investigation. Leading in the study is CIA officer Celeste Gains. By accident she creates both a mental and physical bond with the alien, who refers to itself as Sslits.

Her Rule Would Always Last

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Seth Chambers
• Narrated By Rebekah Amber Clark
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From the moment she hatched, First was curious, determined, and fierce. A baby allosaurus is nothing but a tasty morsel for numerous predators, and yet something deep within her knew that she had come into this world world to rule. This is the life story of a singularly dynamic predator of the late Jurassic period. Using her mix of cunning and patience, First makes her way in a harsh and unforgiving land, even finding the occasional moment of joy along the way.

Terrahawks, Volume 2

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Andrew T. Smith, Jamie Anderson, Chris Dale, and others
• Narrated By Denise Bryer, Jeremy Hitchen, Robbie Stevens, and others

In the not too distant future, the Earth finds itself under constant threat from Zelda, a blood-thirsty android who, along with her fiendish family and monstrous creations, has established a base on Mars. The only thing standing between this evil queen and her quest for the ultimate annihilation of mankind are the Terrahawks - an intrepid band of heroes led by the stern but fair clone, Doctor Tiger Ninestein. In this new series, the Terrahawks defence grows all the more desperate when a terrifying new enemy joins the androids on Mars.

Death Before Dishonor

• UNABRIDGED (14 mins)
• By Dobbin Thorpe
• Narrated By Mike Vendetti

Rena Arblest was, perhaps, no better than she should be. But she was no worse, either. And therefore deserved less than she received.

Captain Future #18 Red Sun of Danger

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Brett Sterling, Radio Archives
• Narrated By Milton Bagby

Captain Future has no shortage of enemies. Beings from across the universe and beyond plot to dominate planets, to destroy galaxies, and find themselves defeated by Captain Future. Only one of his foes, however, proved evil enough to face Captain Future twice. Ull Quorn, The Magician of Mars, is actually the son of the man responsible for murdering Curtis Newton's parents. Intelligent, ruthless, and strong, Quorn is nearly Captain Future's equal in every way, and comes closer than any to ending the life of the Man of Tomorrow.

The Call of Cthulhu

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By H.P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Ron Welch
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Tarzan of the Apes

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Narrated By David Stifel

This book was an instant best-seller and became (and remains to this day) an international sensation, much like Harry Potter today. The story of the infant son of an English Lord and Lady marooned on the coast of Africa made its author famous and wealthy. Adopted by the she-ape, Kala, Tarzan becomes a "mighty hunter, mighty fighter" - the first superhero in American literature.

The Soft Woman

• UNABRIDGED (8 mins)
• By Theodore L. Thomas
• Narrated By Mike Vendetti

She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen...so pliant...so yeilding..so all-enfolding....

Captain Future #19: Outlaw World

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Edmond Hamilton, Radio Archives
• Narrated By Milton Bagby

On the trail of malevolent space pirates, Curt Newton and the Futuremen combat the evil machinations of the Uranian Ru Ghur, who plans the total destruction of the Universe! The Futuremen, the trio that battles injustice alongside Captain Future, all have their origins in the Moon Laboratory that is both home and headquarters to Captain Future. Referred to as a citadel of science, the Moon Laboratory is designed in a circular fashion and contains quarters for the Futuremen.

The Spider: Spider #39 December 1936

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Grant Stockbridge, Radio Archives
• Narrated By Nick Santa Maria

Up from the Devil's Coast swarmed a hooded horde, rioting to lay America under The Cobra's bondage. A frenzied, living Pharaoh raked Manhattan with madness and murder. Against a baffling human wall that dies but never betrays its menacing master, Richard Wentworth - feared Spider of the underworld - faces his fate alone.

The Spider: Spider #43 April 1937

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Grant Stockbridge, RadioArchives.com
• Narrated By Nick Santa Maria

War gongs clanged in Chinatown - but it was no tong war that tore the great Societies with fear, and suspicion, and deadly hate. For deeper in evil mystery than their own dark secrets, lay the hidden temple of crime, that loosed the Scourge of the Yellow Fangs - the menace that erupted in the yellow men's haunts, and overflowed into white men's lives, and threatened white men's rule. Victims lived long enough to curse the unknown Man from Singapore - who knew the Spider and planned his quick removal from the finish fight.

The Spider: Spider #44 May 1937

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Grant Stockbridge, RadioArchives.com
• Narrated By Nick Santa Maria

Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council - and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himself Professor Mephisto? And why did men and women suffer the tortures of the damned, rather than defy this mysterious being? Richard Wentworth once more assumes the cloak of the Spider to free these lost ones from a living hell and a disgraceful death - and steps into the jaws of a devil's trap that casts his life among the lives in pawn!

Sci Fi Shorts, Volume 4

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Poul Anderson, S P Meek, E. E. 'Doc' Smith, and others
• Narrated By Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot

Sci Fi Shorts is a collection of classic science fiction stories from the golden age of space stories. This group of five unabridged short stories by various authors covers such adventures as space-going disasters, culture-shocked Martians, minds being stolen, alien flying cities and ancient artefacts being discovered in the far future.

The Scarlet Plague

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Jack London
• Narrated By Kevin Theis
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The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction which takes place in 2073, after an uncontrollable epidemic has infiltrated the planet. Follow along as James Howard Smith, along with his three grandsons, are a few of the only survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in San Francisco!