Essentials

Our “SFFaudio Essentials” are audiobooks and audio dramas that are highly recommended listening. If you’re contemplating building the ultimate library of speculative fiction audio you can’t go wrong by placing any of these essentials in it.

A Case of Conscience By James Blish; Read by Jay Snyder Audible Frontiers Unabridged 2008

A Scanner Darkly By Philip K. Dick; Read by Paul Giamatti Random House Audio Unabridged 2006

Airborn By Kenneth Oppel; Read by Full Cast Full Cast Audio Unabridged 2006

American Gods By Neil Gaiman; Read by George Guidall Harper Audio Unabridged 2001

Anne Manx and the Empress Blair Project By Larry Weiner; Read by Full Cast RRCA Audio Drama 2009

Antibodies By Charles Stross; Read by Jared Doreck and Shondra Marie Infinivox Unabridged 2005

Assam and Darjeeling By T.M. Camp; Read by T.M. Camp T.M. Camp Unabridged 2008

Billibub Baddings And The Case Of The Singing Sword By Tee Morris; Read by Tee Morris and Others Tee Morris Unabridged 2007

Black Jack Justice By Gregg Taylor; Read by Full Cast Decoder Ring Theater Audio Drama 2006

Blake’s 7 – Audio Adventures By Ben Aaronovitvh, Marc Platt, and James Swallow; Read by Full Cast B7 Media Audio Drama 2007

Calculating God By Robert J. Sawyer; Read by Jonathan Davis Audible Frontiers Unabridged 2008

Canadia 2056: Season 1 By Matt Watts; Read by Full Cast CBC Audio Drama 2008

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror By H.P. Lovecraft, adapted by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman; Read by Full Cast The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society Audio Drama 2007

Dune By Frank Herbert; Read by Simon Vance Macmillan Audio Unabridged 2007

Ender’s Game: 20th Anniversary Edition By Orson Scott Card; Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir, and a full cast Audio Renaissance Unabridged 2004

Into That Darkness Peering: Nightmarish Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 1 By Edgar Allan Poe; Read by Wayne June AudioBookCase.com Unabridged 2008

Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia By Mike Resnick; Read by Paul Michael Garcia Blackstone Audio Unabridged 2006

Lamentation By Ken Scholes; Read by Scott Brick, William Dufris, Maggi-Meg Reed, Stefan Rudnicki Macmillan Audio Unabridged 2009

Little Brother By Cory Doctorow; Read by Kirby Heyborne Random House Audio Unabridged 2008

Little Fuzzy By H. Beam Piper; Read by Brian Holsopple Audio Realms Unabridged 2006

METAtropolis By Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Karl Schroeder; Read by Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani, Stefan Rudnicki Audible Frontiers Unabridged 2008

Old Man’s War By John Scalzi; Read by William Dufris Macmillan Audio / Audible Unabridged 2007

Princess Academy By Shannon Hale; Read by Full Cast Full Cast Audio Unabridged 2007

Queen of the Black Coast By Robert E. Howard; Read by Full Cast Broken Sea Audio Drama 2008

Singularity By Bill DeSmedt; Read by Bill DeSmedt podiobooks.com Unabridged 2006

Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut; Read by Ethan Hawke Blackstone Audio Unabridged 2009

Starship: Rebel By Mike Resnick; Read by Jonathan Davis Audible Frontiers Unabridged 2008

Steve, the First By Matt Watts; Read by Full Cast CBC Radio Audio Drama 2007

The Accidental Time Machine By Joe Haldeman; Read by Kevin R. Free Recorded Books Unabridged 2008

The Caves of Steel By Isaac Asimov; Read by William Dufris Tantor Audio Unabridged 2007

The Chief Designer By Andy Duncan; Read by Jared Doreck Infinivox Unabridged 2006

The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Wayne June Audio Realms Unabridged 2005

The Forever War By Joe Haldeman; Read by George Wilson Recorded Books Unabridged 1999

The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman; Read by Neil Gaiman Harper Audio Unabridged 2008

The Naked Sun By Isaac Asimov; Read by William Dufris Tantor Media Unabridged 2007

The Prestige By Christopher Priest; Read by Simon Vance Blackstone Audio Unabridged 2006

The Red Panda Adventures, Season 2 By Gregg Taylor; Read by Full Cast Decoder Ring Theatre Audio Drama 2006/2007

The Red Panda Adventures, Season 3 By Gregg Taylor; Read by Full Cast Decoder Ring Theater Audio Drama 2008

The Red Panda Adventures, Season 4 By Gregg Taylor; Read by Full Cast Decoder Ring Theatre Audio Drama 2008-2009

The Sky People By S.M. Stirling; Read by Todd McLaren Tantor Media Unabridged 2006

V for Vendetta By Steve Moore; Read by Simon Vance Blackstone Audio Unabridged 2006

Voyagers By Ben Bova; Read by Stefan Rudnicki Blackstone Audio Unabridged 2006

Way Station By Clifford D. Simak; Read by Eric Michael Summerer Audible Frontiers Unabridged 2009