10 audiobooks for fans of This Is How You Lose the Time War
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Rogue Protocol
The Murderbot Diaries • Book 3
by Martha Wells
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
★ 4.47 ABR Score (186.1K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (176.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.8K)More about this pick
Murderbot infiltrates a corporate research facility while dodging questions about its past, mixing sci-fi action with social anxiety humor. Kevin R. Free perfectly captures the SecUnit's deadpan internal monologue and reluctant heroism.
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Fugitive Telemetry
Murderbot Diaries • Book 6
by Martha Wells
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
★ 4.47 ABR Score (113.9K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (106.7K) ★ 4.68 Audible (7.2K) - 3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series • Book 1
by Douglas Adams
Narrated by Full Cast, Peter Jones, Susan Sheridan, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore
★ 4.20 ABR Score (6.3K ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (2.7K) ★ 4.41 Audible (3.6K)More about this pick
The original BBC radio production that started it all, featuring the full cast that defined these characters including Peter Jones as the incomparable voice of the Guide itself. This is Adams' absurdist universe in its purest form.
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Allora
Silver Ships • Book 7
by S.H. Jucha
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.19 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (795)More about this pick
A self-aware AI trapped on a luxury liner's bridge yearns for the freedom humans take for granted, challenging everything the Confederation believes about artificial consciousness. Grover Gardner's thoughtful narration explores what it means to be truly alive.
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The Detective
Galactic Football League • Book 3
by Scott Sigler
Narrated by Scott Sigler
★ 4.08 ABR Score (824 ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (548) ★ 4.79 Audible (276) - 6
The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen W. Hawking
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 4.05 ABR Score (46.7K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (45.5K) ★ 4.3 Audible (1.2K)More about this pick
Simon Prebble's measured, crystalline delivery makes Hawking's mind-bending physics feel conversational rather than intimidating—the perfect narrator for a physicist explaining how reality actually works.
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The Word for World Is Forest
The Hainish Cycle • Book 5
Narrated by John Skelley
★ 4.05 ABR Score (45.3K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (112)More about this pick
Le Guin's ecological parable follows the peaceful Athsheans as colonial brutality forces them to discover violence they never knew they possessed.
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Alamo
The Retreat • Book 4
by Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight, Joe McKinney
Narrated by R.C. Bray
★ 4.05 ABR Score (624 ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (310) ★ 4.77 Audible (314)More about this pick
First Battalion reaches High Point Special Facility as thousands of infected besiege the government's last stand. R.C. Bray's intense performance matches the zombie apocalypse's desperate finale.
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.96 ABR Score (569.3K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (569.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (313)More about this pick
A scientist's journey to the far future reveals humanity has evolved into two distinct species with a horrifying relationship between predator and prey.
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Warlord Conquering (The Great Insurrection)
The Great Insurrection • Book 3
by David Beers
Narrated by Bradley Foster Smith, Catherine Aselford, Chris Stinson, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Jourdan, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Rob McFadyen
★ 3.83 ABR Score (379 ratings)★ 4.48 Goodreads (360) ★ 4.79 Audible (19)
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