As a bonus, all are written by female authors (to the best of my current knowledge), and the list includes multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winners. If you’re looking to start with some solidly good audiobooks, I’ve gathered the first books of 10 sci-fi series audiobooks here.

It’s a win-win for both the chore list and my attention span. For sci-fi, this is particularly great because while I’m doing boring 2022 human stuff, my brain is riding dragons on Pern or saving humans with a murderbot. I can listen to the dulcet tones of my favorite narrators while I garden, commute, or do the dishes. Narration lends a whole new aspect to books narrators are often in on the jokes, and know how to pronounce the names of characters and planets. One of my favorite ways to read sci-fi is via audiobook. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends. Science fiction is defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica as “…a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals.” Much of that imagined science involves space travel, but not all of it time travel falls under sci-fi, as does any kind of miracle medicine, mech suit, or really anything you can think of that involves technology we do not currently have today.

The sheer possibility of it the idea that there are grand vistas yet unexplored, living their lives with no notion that we even exist? It’s amazing to me.

Scifi audiobooks