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Good audiobooks (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by stoy@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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...

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would highly recommend The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. There's an excellent audio book version available for free on Archive.org.

It's very well written classic sci-fi.

Some others that I thoroughly enjoyed:

Starwolf - Edmond Hamilton
The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
The Jameson Satellite - Neil R. Jones
Gunner Cade - Cyril Kornbluth & Judith Merrill
The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Phaid the Gambler - Mick Ferran
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le'Guin