Best Long Literary Sci-Fi Audiobooks

Explore our selection of epic Literary Sci-Fi audiobooks.

Welcome to our curated collection of the best and longest Literary Sci-Fi audiobooks, all 20+ hours in length.

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Epic Audiobooks in this Genre

• Hyperion by Dan Simmons (20h 44m)

  Narrated by: Full Cast (Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, et al.)

  21 hours of tales. The Canterbury Tales in space, featuring the terrifying Shrike.

• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (19h 54m)

  Narrated by: Victor Bevine

  20 hours of war. The stunning conclusion to the Hyperion cantos delivers on every promise.

• 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.

• 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.

• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (15h 37m)

  Narrated by: Amy Landon

  15 hours of Hugo-winning political intrigue. An ambassador navigates imperial poetry, seduction, and assassination.

• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds (18h 17m)

  Narrated by: John Lee

  18 hours of deep-time hard sci-fi. Two immortal clones navigate six million years of history to solve a cosmic genocide.

• 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.

• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (17h 32m)

  Narrated by: Amy Landon

  17.5 hours of first-contact linguistic tension. Mahit Dzmare confronts an incomprehensible alien hive-mind.