Audiobooks Like The Last Colony

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William Dufris narrates The Last Colony with a relaxed competence that suits Scalzi's storytelling style — the political intrigue and the interstellar action share the same wry register, and the 10-hour runtime moves efficiently through a plot that doesn't waste time on setup. Dufris voices the first recommendation directly, while most of the remaining titles come from Scalzi's catalog narrated by Wil Wheaton, giving the list the consistent tone of a series where the author's voice and the narrator's sensibility have grown into each other.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Last Colony

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    Old Man's War

    Old Man\u2019s War • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by William Dufris

    ★ 4.43 ABR Score (255.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (28.5K)
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    John Perry's 75th birthday recruitment into humanity's star-spanning military gets perfectly pitched energy from William Dufris.

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    The Consuming Fire

    The Interdependency • Book 2

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (50.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (37.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (12.3K)
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    The interdimensional Flow that connects human civilization is collapsing, and Wil Wheaton captures Scalzi's wit amid this empire's death throes.

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    The Last Emperox

    The Interdependency • Book 3

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.32 ABR Score (42.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.59 Audible (8.8K)
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    The Flow's collapse accelerates, cutting off entire star systems as Emperox Grayland fights to save civilization from those profiting off the apocalypse. Wil Wheaton captures both cosmic scale and political urgency.

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    The Collapsing Empire

    The Interdependency • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.26 ABR Score (81.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (60.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.0K)
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    When the interdimensional passages connecting humanity's scattered worlds begin failing, political intrigue races against cosmic catastrophe.

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  5. 5
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    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.19 ABR Score (86.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (72.6K) ★ 4.47 Audible (13.3K)
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    Jamie Gray stumbles from pandemic food delivery into interdimensional monster conservation work. Wheaton brings playful energy to Scalzi's pandemic-era comfort food about giant creatures and found family.

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    Agent to the Stars

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.14 ABR Score (40.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (24.1K) ★ 4.45 Audible (16.3K)
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    First contact gets the Hollywood treatment when aliens hire a talent agent to manage their image problem—they smell like rotting fish.

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    Lock In

    Lock In • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.13 ABR Score (89.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (72.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (17.5K)
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    A pandemic leaves millions conscious but paralyzed, creating a new class of citizens who navigate through robotic bodies. FBI agent Chris Shane investigates murder in this near-future disability rights thriller.

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    The Android's Dream

    The Android's Dream • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.12 ABR Score (37.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (24.2K) ★ 4.41 Audible (12.9K)
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    Scalzi opens with an interstellar diplomatic incident triggered by weaponized flatulence—Wheaton's deadpan delivery makes the absurdist humor land perfectly.

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    When the Moon Hits Your Eye

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 3.81 ABR Score (20.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (18.5K) ★ 4.21 Audible (1.9K)
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    Scalzi tackles the absurd premise of Earth's moon being replaced by cheese with scientific rigor and deadpan humor that Wil Wheaton delivers with perfect straight-faced commitment.

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    Lock In (Narrated

    Lock In Series • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by Amber Benson

    ★ 3.86 ABR Score (3.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Audible (3.3K)
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