Science Fiction – Page 2 – The Audiobook Review

Apocalypticon

25 November 2025

I picked up Apocalypticon after I had some weird half-memories of it from reading on my Kindle a decade ago. I remembered that I liked parts, disliked other parts, then filed it away under “maybe revisit someday”, but otherwise remembered […]

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3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

8 November 2025

Part of The Time Traveler’s Passport collection, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years works perfectly well on its own, which is good because I didn’t notice it was part of a larger collection of short stories! It’s a compact, neatly

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

30 October 2025

What happens to the meaning of life when death stops being a problem but reputation becomes everything? That’s the question humming underneath Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a slim but idea-packed piece of near-future speculation where people can

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BuyMort: Singularity

19 August 2025

BuyMort: Singularity by Damien Hanson and Joseph Phelps – the seventh entry and final entry in the Shopocalypse Saga – jumps the timeline forward a full century from the last book. Tyson wakes to a universe that’s moved on without

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Earth Abides

29 July 2025

Some audiobooks take a while to settle into. Others make it clear within the first ten seconds that you’re not going to mesh with a particular voice, and unfortunately that’s exactly what happened with the foreword in Earth Abides. Connie

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Starship Troopers

26 July 2025

Always remember to check your purchase history. I’d forgotten I had purchased this, and it was languishing in my unread list for way longer than it should have! I went into Starship Troopers expecting all-out war with giant alien bugs,

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The Humans

17 June 2025

The Humans by Matt Haig is a sci-fi-tinged meditation on what it means to be human, told through the eyes of an alien who starts off utterly horrified and bewildered by us humanity. He’s sent to Earth to prevent our

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Schrodinger’s Cottage

2 June 2025

Schrodinger’s Cottage by David Luddington is a charming bit of humorous science fiction with a distinctive English flavour. It leans more toward quirky alternate-realities than outright sci-fi in that it’s set in a small village near Glastonbury and focused less

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Feedback

22 May 2025

I knew I had to get this, one because I’m a fan of the Bobiverse books, and two because it’s a short story on time travel paradoxes, which I also love. Being free as part of my Audible subscription also

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Mal Goes to War

23 March 2025

Mal Goes to War is an interesting and darkly comedic look at artificial intelligence (AI), war, and what it means to be human. Told from the perspective of a mostly dispassionate “free AI” called Mal (short for Malware), we’re thrust

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Assist

22 February 2025

Assist, by Steven Mathew Zellers, paints a bleak and grim future for humanity where global warming and overpopulation have driven countries to the brink. Millions starve or are involved in endless conflict, and with their eyes on Mars and beyond

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Stellar Heir

3 February 2025

Some rough edges, but Stellar Heir is a reasonably well-paced and action-filled space opera that I think lands well in the young adult market for science fiction. It doesn’t have an overly complicated plot, but it was easy to listen

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