Best Long First Contact Audiobooks

Explore our selection of epic First Contact audiobooks.

Welcome to our curated collection of the best and longest First Contact audiobooks, all 20+ hours in length.

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Epic Audiobooks in this Genre

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson (32h 45m)

  Narrated by: William Dufris, Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, Neal Stephenson

  33 hours of ideas. Monks, math, and multiverse theory clash in Stephenson's most intellectual epic.

• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (16h 3m)

  Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

  16 hours challenging culture. Heinlein's counter-culture classic about a human raised on Mars.

• Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (37h 30m)

  Narrated by: John Lee

  37 hours of maximalist space opera. Wormhole trains, mega-corporations, and the deadliest alien threat in sci-fi.

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (13h 24m)

  Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, P.J. Ochlan, Bruno Roubicek

  13 hours of hard sci-fi. First contact like you've never seen it before, grounded in physics and history.

• Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (18h 41m)

  Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

  19 hours of cosmic wonder. A rogue salvage crew faces godlike entities capable of reshaping whole worlds into stone.

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (16h 31m)

  Narrated by: Mel Hudson

  17 hours of Arthur C. Clarke-winning sci-fi. Humanity’s last generation ship collides with an uplifted civilization.

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (16h 10m)

  Narrated by: Ray Porter

  16 hours of interstellar survival. A lone astronaut and an alien engineer team up to save two stars from extinction.