Good audiobooks
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
I love The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. The audiobook is narrated by Peter Kenny and he does such a good job with it.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Hands down the best audio book series I've ever listened to. If you like video games, sci-fi, or fantasy, you will not be disappointed.
It's hilarious, but far from the classic sci-fi OP is looking for.
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I only know of the version I've heard on Audible, and that's the Sound Booth Theater one (autocorrect butchered the studio name in my comment. Fixed)
Ahh okay cool that is the one I just finished
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
I enjoyed War of the Worlds in audiobook form
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I enjoyed War of the Worlds in audiobook form
I have that on my list of future books to get
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I have that on my list of future books to get
Try to find the radio show version
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Friendly reminder that a lot of libraries lend audio books as well.
Also: oftentimes, you don't have to live in a library's locality to be a "member" and check out digital works.
Libby, et al, as archive.org, essentially 🤩 -
Try to find the radio show version
I seem to recall that Liam Neeson did a reading of the book with an orchestra
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I love The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. The audiobook is narrated by Peter Kenny and he does such a good job with it.
I adore those books, but I never considered audiobooks. Have you listened to others by Banks?
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Bit off topic, since I didn't listen to the audio version, but the Culture series from Banks is fantastic.
Seconded fervently.
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
Before the recs I just want to shout out libro.FM - they sell audiobooks and donate half of the profits to independent book stores.
Classic sci fi:
- The dispossessed - also the left hand of darkness (which is meant to be good buy Inhavent read)
- Foundation series
- permutation city
I think the more modern sci fi is good too so I will give you some recommendations anyway:
- Project Hail Mary - mentioned by other commenters, really good
- Children of time - first and best of a series, really good
- Expanse - series of books set in the near future, hard sci fi and a bit of space opera
- Red rising - a space opera a bit like a fantasy book in a sci fi setting
- Murderbot - series with a bit more more comed, very entertaining and easy to get into
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
Yes, definitely Heinlein. The moon is a harsh mistress, and stranger in a strange land are both great.
And Philip K Dick as well, but it's a bit more surreal than what you've been listening to.
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I adore those books, but I never considered audiobooks. Have you listened to others by Banks?
I've listened to most of the Culture series and I really liked it all. Look To Windward was especially good imo.
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Before the recs I just want to shout out libro.FM - they sell audiobooks and donate half of the profits to independent book stores.
Classic sci fi:
- The dispossessed - also the left hand of darkness (which is meant to be good buy Inhavent read)
- Foundation series
- permutation city
I think the more modern sci fi is good too so I will give you some recommendations anyway:
- Project Hail Mary - mentioned by other commenters, really good
- Children of time - first and best of a series, really good
- Expanse - series of books set in the near future, hard sci fi and a bit of space opera
- Red rising - a space opera a bit like a fantasy book in a sci fi setting
- Murderbot - series with a bit more more comed, very entertaining and easy to get into
Their audiobooks are also DRM-free!
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
The mote in gods eye. Classic sci-fi space opera.
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I have recently got into audiobooks, with a focus on classic sci-fi, I just finnished Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clark (narrated by Peter Gamin), which is absolutely brilliant, highly recommended, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (narrated by Kelsey Grammer, free on Apple Books), also brilliant, very different from the 1960s film.
Anyway do you have any tips on classic sci-fi (1870s-1990s) that I should listen to?
I use Apple Books to buy the books, I am not really interested in audiobook streaming, I want to own my books, not rent access to them.
At the moment I have several books that I need to listen to, but I want to buy more now so I have them in my library.
I have the following books in my library:
- Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark - Narrated by Peter Gamin
- The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Alexandra Coles
- The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Kelsey Grammer
- The World Set Free - H. G. Wells - Narrated by Sebastian Blackwood
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - Narrated by Scott Brick
- Ignition, An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants - John Drury Clark - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
I am planning on getting 2001: A Space Oddesy and some even more Arthur C. Clark...
If you like Classic SciFi, allow me to recommend The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
It includes 24 public domain works by numerous authors such as Verne, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Wells and others. It includes the initial John Carter of Mars books by Burroughs, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and many more.
It also includes one of my favorite stories, The Machine Stops by E M Forster. This story just wows me. It's about a society that lives in little apartments in huge underground arcologies that are all run by The Machine. It provides everything they need including food and air. While the arcologies are huge, the people never go outside and rarely if ever leave their pods (apartments) or see each other outside of video chats on social media. Many of the people have come to see The Machine as God.
The Machine Stops basically predicts modern social media and all it's isolating and deleterious effects and it was written in 1928 before the electronic computer was even invented!
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If you like Classic SciFi, allow me to recommend The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
It includes 24 public domain works by numerous authors such as Verne, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Wells and others. It includes the initial John Carter of Mars books by Burroughs, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and many more.
It also includes one of my favorite stories, The Machine Stops by E M Forster. This story just wows me. It's about a society that lives in little apartments in huge underground arcologies that are all run by The Machine. It provides everything they need including food and air. While the arcologies are huge, the people never go outside and rarely if ever leave their pods (apartments) or see each other outside of video chats on social media. Many of the people have come to see The Machine as God.
The Machine Stops basically predicts modern social media and all it's isolating and deleterious effects and it was written in 1928 before the electronic computer was even invented!
I can't seem to edit my original post but I wanted to another series of classic sci-fi compilations I have. These were published to honor works that were published before the institution of the Nebula Awards.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, 1929-1964 - Includes the Roads Must Roll by Heinlein and Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A - Includes The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth, and Who Goes There by John W. Cambell Jr. Who Goes There is the story on which John Carter's 1982 film The Thing was based.
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-B - The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak, The Martian Way by Asimov. This one also includes The Machine Stops that is included in the first compilation I recommended so there is some overlap.
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If you like Classic SciFi, allow me to recommend The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
It includes 24 public domain works by numerous authors such as Verne, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Wells and others. It includes the initial John Carter of Mars books by Burroughs, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and many more.
It also includes one of my favorite stories, The Machine Stops by E M Forster. This story just wows me. It's about a society that lives in little apartments in huge underground arcologies that are all run by The Machine. It provides everything they need including food and air. While the arcologies are huge, the people never go outside and rarely if ever leave their pods (apartments) or see each other outside of video chats on social media. Many of the people have come to see The Machine as God.
The Machine Stops basically predicts modern social media and all it's isolating and deleterious effects and it was written in 1928 before the electronic computer was even invented!
Thank you!
I will check it out!
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Seconded fervently.
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