Nigerian writer Nnedi Okorafor is best known for weaving spellbinding tales of magic, illuminated by her knowledge of Igbo folklore and African history. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the number of great sci-books books out there, you can also take our 30-second quiz below to narrow it down quickly and get a personalized book recommendation 😉 Load up your phone with these 30 best sci-fi audiobooks and they’ll make you feel like every road-trip is a space odyssey - and like you’re terraforming Mars every time you do your chores. We've even organized them by length, shortest to longest, so you can find the perfect futuristic adventure to fill up your time. If that sounds like a good time, look no further than science fiction - wildly inventive stories that will have your heart racing with their sharp plotting and your mind racing from their even sharper ideas. Maybe you like the sound of a listening experience that will crack open the mundane shell of your day-to-day and launch you up among the stars. Either way, audiobooks keep your brain engaged with a good story even if your hands aren’t free to flip a page.

When you’ve got a good audiobook piped into your earbuds, time takes on a different texture - sometimes it zips along, impelled by laughter, or slows to an ooze thanks to suspense.

Free sci fi audiobooks