Science Fiction audiobooks

Star Trek: Cacophony - Abridged

By: J.j. Molloy

Narrated by: George Takei & Simon Jones

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the planet Stentor, silence is not only golden; it is the key to maintaining peace in world devastated by a great war. But that calm is shattered when a group known as the Ghazi create a new technology that intercepts old Earth radio signals and rebroadcasts them across the planet. Each day the din grows more deafening. When Captain Sulu and... Read more

The Ship Who Won - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. As the brain, Carialle, is a bodiless human wired into a spaceship, while her human partner, Keff, is the brawn. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings. Intelligent life is thin on the galactic ground, so when Carialle and Keff... Read more

Q-Squared - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: John de Lancie

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful that Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise™. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious,... Read more

All Good Things... - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the... Read more

Dragonsinger - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world of Pern, Harpers are more powerful than kings, for the music they play can control the minds of others. Harper Hall is a type of music conservatory for harpers (minstrels/educators) and other music professionals. For young Menolly, her dreams of becoming a Harper have nothing to do with power, but rather her love of music. But as... Read more

Crystal Line - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Killashandra, one of the most gifted singers on Ballybran, is drawn like a magnet to the song of crystal. In order to work with crystal, singers are infected with a symbiotic life form that heals them and gives them near eternal life—but slowly destroys their memories. Since crystal singing brings Killashandra ecstasy, she doesn't mind the... Read more

Fallen Heroes - Abridged

By: Dafydd ab Hugh

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade -- a prisoner no one on Deep Space NineTM knows anything about -- Commander Benjamin Sisko has a deadly fight on his hands. Under sudden attack from the heavily armed warriors, Sisko and his crew struggle desperately to repel the invaders and save the lives of everyone on... Read more

Sarek - Abridged

By: A.C. Crispin

Narrated by: Mark Lenard

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The novel begins after the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country™. Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows worse, duty calls Sarek away -- once again sowing seeds of conflict between father and son.... Read more

Crystal Singer - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black... Read more

Star Trek: Transformations - Abridged

By: Dave Stern

Narrated by: George Takei & Dana Ivey

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Starfleet diplomat Captain Hikaru Sulu is transported by powerful, frightening dreams to the desolate desert world of Sigma Cameron Four. It was there, as Commander of the U.S.S. Excelsior 20 years earlier, that he discovered traces of the ancient Shalakai -- a ruthless culture who, legend held, had once uncovered the secret to eternal life.... Read more

PartnerShip - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nancia is her name, NX-928 her designation. Enter a future world in which brains are connected to computers to help run cities and ships; brainless bodies or brawn do the physical work. In the second book of the Brainship series, a new "shellperson"—someone born with grave physical disabilities that required her human body to be encased in a... Read more

The City Who Fought - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles. When a battered, jury-rigged ship appears to threaten the station, they rescue the people who are fleeing from the vicious Kolnari pirates. As the... Read more

Shadows of the Sun - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the EnterpriseTM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the... Read more

Windows on a Lost World - Abridged

By: V.E. Mitchell

Narrated by: Walter Koenig

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Windows On A Lost World
While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise™ explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them... Read more

Dragonsdawn - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists—a return to an agrarian way of life—until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything—and everyone—in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the... Read more

Dragonflight - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a beautiful planet called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. The sole survivor of a noble ruling family, Lessa is an outcast—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge for her murdered parents. Everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share... Read more

Emissary - Abridged

By: J.M. Dillard

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series!

Commander Benjamin Sisko is just recovering from the death of his wife when he is assigned command over the former Cardassian, but new Federation space station, Deep Space Nine. This space station is strategically located not only because of its orbit about Bajor, but also because of... Read more

Borgel - Abridged

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Narrated by: Daniel Pinkwater

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Melvin Spellbound's humdrum life suddenly becomes extraordinary when 111-year-old Borgel arrives for a visit. In this clever, funny, off-the-wall story, Melvin's sort of Uncle Borgel seems like an Old World refugee when he shows up at the Spellbound home and moves into their back room with 32 small black suitcases. However, his true identity as... Read more

Star Trek: Conversational Klingon - Abridged

By: Marc Okrand

Narrated by: Marc Okrand & Michael Dorn

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Written by Mark Okrand, the creator of The Klingon Dictionary, Conversational Klingon is an audio program that can teach anyone to speak authentic Klingon. It includes the words, phrases, pronunciations and customs for any situation, including: proper voice inflection, key Klingon words for emergencies, and sample conversations between Klingons. Read more

Star Trek Next Generation: Imzadi - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid... Read more

Star Trek: Faces of Fire - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Bibi Besch

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three, a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus.

Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies and the... Read more

Pegasus in Flight & To Ride Pegasus - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first two chapters in Anne McCaffrey's “Talents Saga" are featured in this recording: Pegasus in Flight In this sequel to Ride the Pegasus, McCaffrey continues the story of the Talents—psionic beings who were once feared and despised, but have become necessary to the comfort and conduct of society. As director of a parapsychic center,... Read more

Alien 3 - Abridged

By: Alan Foster

Narrated by: Lance Henriksen

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the remnants of a space vehicle, sleeps Ellen Ripley, a woman who has battled a monstrous enemy twice. The first time, the creature killed the entire whole crew of the Nostromo. The second time, it slaughtered a dozen of death-dealing Marines. Now on a bleak planet that houses a horde of defiant prisoners, Ripley will have to fight the... Read more

Q-in-Law - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Majel Barrett & John de Lancie

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A celebration of love between two powerful rival families is cut short when the all powerful being called Q arrives and challenges the very concept of love.

When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though... Read more