91 audiobooks · 527 hours of listening

Science Fiction & Fantasy audiobooks

Where the genre began.

Before science fiction had a name, Jules Verne was sending submarines to the ocean floor and H. G. Wells was building time machines. This collection gathers those founders alongside Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars, Lord Dunsany's dreamlike fantasy kingdoms, George MacDonald's fairy tales for grown-ups and Jonathan Swift's satirical voyages. Many of the ideas modern sci-fi and fantasy take for granted — alien worlds, invisible men, whole invented mythologies — first appeared here.

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The best-known science fiction & fantasy titles in the library
  1. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells · 5h 30m
  2. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Jonathan Swift · 9h 3m
  3. The Time Machine H. G. Wells · 3h 1m
  4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne · 10h 16m
  5. The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells · 4h 6m
  6. We Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin · 5h 45m

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Are these science fiction & fantasy audiobooks free?

The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 91 science fiction & fantasy titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

Can I read along while I listen?

Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.

What's the shortest and longest science fiction & fantasy audiobook here?

The Eyes Have It is the shortest at 7 min; The Mysterious Island is the longest at 18 hr 19 min. The whole collection runs about 527 hours.

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