![]() In An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon tackles structural oppression on a starship. Jackie Sanders, meanwhile, carries off her role as a military interrogator with chilling perfection. Cara Gee’s subtly ironic narration perfectly captures a soldier trained to obey against her own will and instincts. ![]() ![]() But Dietz starts to experience drops so bad they hint at something far worse than these routine slippages. Those who undergo this “dropping” process again and again are expected to pick up a few… personality quirks. Our entry point into the intricate world she crafts is a rank-and-file soldier named Dietz, who’s joined the Light Brigade - the group of fighters transported from battle to battle on the Martian frontlines in the form of light. The result is a gripping meditation on the human costs of war. In The Light Brigade, the ever-inventive Kameron Hurley explores the scientific - and psychological - implications of having Scotty beam someone up. This ambitious, far-future thriller is a military sci-fi classic in the making - and one of the best books published in 2019. In his new role, Bob finds himself entangled in a scientific arms race between nations competing to settle new worlds first: pretty big responsibilities for someone who couldn’t even cross the street without being killed. Instead, he’s been forcibly uploaded to a server and turned into software, made to scan the skies for habitat planets. But his story doesn’t end there: Bob wakes up a century later to find himself beneficiary of cryogenic freezing - or maybe we should say “victim,” since, as a “corpiscle,” he’s lost all of his legal rights. Like Arthur Dent, Bob Johansson is a bit of a hapless everyman: he’s just on the cusp of leisured retirement when he’s killed by a passing car. And his impeccable narrator, Ray Porter, delivers deft irony like an American Stephen Fry. Taylor, with his wild imagination and razor-sharp wit, might just be the next Douglas Adams. Named Audible’s best sci-fi audiobook of 2016, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) offers spacefaring, far-future hilarity to rival The Hitchhiker’s Guide. Robin Miles’ complex, layered performance - honed by her years on- and off-Broadway - turns this beautiful Afrofuturist fable into an emotional tour de force. But Binti soon has more to worry about than furthering her education: the spaceship that’s meant to take her to her new school is hijacked by the alien Meduse, putting her within their tentacled grasp. But her destination is Oomza Uni, the galaxy’s most prestigious institution of higher learning, so she gets on that ship anyway - as the only Himba ever to be accepted to the university. The Himba, Binti’s narration claims, are meant to “stay put,” caring eternal for their ancestral land. Binti stars the eponymous teenage math whiz, a Himba girl who runs away from home and hitches a ride on a spaceship bound for a distant planet. In this Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, she applies her gifts to science fiction. ![]() 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. ![]()
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