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Featured Article: 20 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks for Exploring New Worlds
There is no genre that lends itself better to audio narrative than Science Fiction does. There is a magic that transports listeners to new worlds of wonder and mystery that is heightened by expert voice actors and narrators. A great writer can create an imaginative new world or dystopian civilisation, but it is up to the narrator to bring this world to life around you. We’ve gathered together 20 of the top science fiction audiobooks ranked not only for their stories but for the emotive and compelling narrative performances. Let these award winning tales and voices carry you away to worlds unknown.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect....
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Wow Stephen Fry
- By Anonymous User on 2018-05-27
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2005-04-28
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android in their first series of adventures as they witness the destruction of Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass....
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All time favorite.
- By Marlin Brendo on 2019-09-19
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore, full cast
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-14
- Language: English
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Dirk Gently: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Jan Ravens, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels....
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A terrific interpretation!
- By KT42 on 2022-11-30
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Dirk Gently: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Jan Ravens, Peter Davison, Billy Boyd, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-19
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Albums
- Two Full-Cast Audio Dramatisations
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Peter Jones, Simon Jones, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it’s the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford Prefect....
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Original Adams Story
- By Roadkill on 2024-03-13
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Albums
- Two Full-Cast Audio Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-21
- Language: English
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation....
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Quick Pace. Great wit.
- By Steiny76 on 2019-03-08
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2006-07-03
- Language: English
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies....
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Andrew Sachs, Jim Carter
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2007-10-30
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quandary Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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The Earth has miraculously reappeared and, even more miraculously, Arthur Dent has found it. Returning to his cottage after...well...ages, he falls in love with the girl of his dreams....
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quandary Phase (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Full Cast
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 4
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-12
- Language: English
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Dirk Gently
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dramatised)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms....
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Dirk Gently
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dramatised)
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-14
- Language: English
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability....
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Great book. Did not like the voice of the reader
- By jacob matusinec on 2018-06-20
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2006-07-03
- Language: English
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination....
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Great book
- By Aidan Costello on 2024-11-18
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-22
- Language: English
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Last Chance to See
- Written by: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
- Narrated by: Mathew Baynton, Stephen Fry
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Join Douglas Adams, best-selling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world’s most endangered and exotic creatures....
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Entertaining and prophetic
- By O. Pinion on 2020-03-28
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Last Chance to See
- Narrated by: Mathew Baynton, Stephen Fry
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-19
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Stranded on Prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet....
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fabulous as always
- By Myrna Gauthier on 2018-03-31
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Secondary Phase (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan, Stephen Moore
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-14
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quintessential Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker’s Guide HQ....
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Quintessential Phase (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 5
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-12
- Language: English
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Mostly Harmless
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills....
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I actually liked that!
- By Aidan Costello on 2023-06-28
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Mostly Harmless
- Narrated by: Martin Freeman
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 5
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-21
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Tertiary Phase (Dramatized)
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything....
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Tertiary Phase (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 3
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2005-04-06
- Language: English
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Le guide du voyageur galactique
- H2G2 1
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Nicolas Justamon
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Comment garder tout son flegme quand on apprend dans la même journée : que sa maison va être abattue dans la minute pour laisser place à...
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Haut en couleur
- By Buddy on 2021-09-22
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Le guide du voyageur galactique
- H2G2 1
- Narrated by: Nicolas Justamon
- Series: H2G2, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-01
- Language: French
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase (Dramatized)
- And Another Thing...
- Written by: Eoin Colfer, Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Jane Horrocks, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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Simon Jones stars as Arthur Dent in a brand-new BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of And Another Thing..., the sixth book in the famous Hitchhiker's Guide 'trilogy'....
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passable
- By Mark Harcourt on 2019-07-10
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase (Dramatized)
- And Another Thing...
- Narrated by: Jane Horrocks, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, Geoffrey McGivern, Simon Jones, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, full cast
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide (radio plays), Book 6
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-13
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Live in Concert
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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One night in 1995, author Douglas Adams kidnapped an audience and held them hostage for 70 minutes at London's Almeida Theatre....
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Live in Concert
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-23
- Language: English
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Le dernier restaurant avant la fin du monde
- H2G2 2
- Written by: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Nicolas Justamon
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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La cuisine anglaise est exécrable. Moins abominable, cependant, que la poésie des Vogons, un peuple fier, ombrageux, et éminemment...
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Excellent
- By mehdi merai on 2020-08-19
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Le dernier restaurant avant la fin du monde
- H2G2 2
- Narrated by: Nicolas Justamon
- Series: H2G2, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-22
- Language: French
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- Doctor Who: The Lost Adventure
- Written by: Douglas Adams, Gareth Roberts
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University - where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor....
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Great story
- By Ryan Autet on 2020-11-08
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Shada
- Doctor Who: The Lost Adventure
- Narrated by: Lalla Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-15
- Language: English
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