Audiobooks Like Fugitive Telemetry

Kevin R. Free narrates Murderbot's reluctant detective turn with a wry interiority that makes the social discomfort genuinely funny without undercutting the mystery — the 4-hour runtime is tight enough that the pacing never flags, and Free's delivery keeps Murderbot's preference for serial dramas over human interaction the emotional through-line. One more pick shares Free's narration, two are Murderbot novellas, and the list shares that same quality of science fiction where the humor and the genuine feeling are completely inseparable.

10 audiobooks for fans of Fugitive Telemetry

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    From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back cover

    From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

    Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 2

    by Elizabeth Schaefer, Mark Oshiro, Rob Hart, Michael Moreci, Mike Chen, Beth Revis, Zoraida Córdova, Kiersten White, Lilliam Rivera, Mackenzi Lee, Amy Ratcliffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Emily Skrutskie, Tracy Deonn, C.B. Lee, Karen Strong, Delilah S. Dawson, Lydia Kang, Adam Christopher, Cavan Scott, R.F. Kuang, Tom Angleberger, S.A. Chakraborty, Seth Dickinson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Hank Green, Michael Kogge, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Anne Toole, Austin Walker, Martha Wells, Django Wexler, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub, Katie Cook, Sarwat Chadda

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dion Graham, Jon Hamm, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sam Witwer, Emily Woo Zeller

    3.93 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.6K)
    17h 59m listening time • Released 2020

    Forty writers and an all-star cast of narrators (including Jon Hamm and Sam Witwer) transform Empire into a anthology of revelation, making you hear the galaxy's most pivotal moments through entirely new eyes.

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    Razor's Edge: Star Wars Legends

    Star Wars: Legends • Book 1

    by Martha Wells

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    3.65 ABR Score (886 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (13) ★ 4.16 Audible (873)
    9h 57m listening time • Released 2013
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    Glasshouse

    by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Kevin R. Free

    3.78 ABR Score (12.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (11.7K) ★ 4.14 Audible (389)
    13h 34m listening time • Released 2011
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    Love Lost : The Kurtherian Gambit 3 (The Kurtherian Gambit Series)

    The Kurtherian Gambit • Book 3

    by Michael Anderle

    Narrated by full cast, Colleen Delany, Emily Beresford, James Konicek, Zeke Alton, Christopher Graybill, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Jason Keller, Bianca Bryan, Patrick Bussink

    4.21 ABR Score (6.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (6.0K) ★ 4.81 Audible (170)
    5h 15m listening time • Released 2021
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    Allora

    Silver Ships • Book 7

    by S.H. Jucha

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.19 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (795)
    4h 38m listening time • Released 2017

    Grover Gardner's measured, introspective narration brings profound depth to a young AI's struggle for freedom—this is speculative fiction that treats consciousness and autonomy as genuinely urgent moral questions.

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    The Word for World Is Forest

    The Hainish Cycle • Book 5

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by John Skelley

    4.05 ABR Score (45.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (112)
    4h 44m listening time • Released 2024
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    Alamo

    The Retreat • Book 4

    by Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight, Joe McKinney

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.05 ABR Score (624 ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (310) ★ 4.77 Audible (314)
    4h 48m listening time • Released 2020

    R.C. Bray's intensity elevates this siege horror into something genuinely claustrophobic—the underground bunker setting and infected masses create relentless tension that his narration nails perfectly.

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    This Is How You Lose the Time War

    by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller

    4.02 ABR Score (352.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (348.1K) ★ 4.33 Audible (4.7K)
    4h 16m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Time Machine

    by H.G. Wells

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    3.96 ABR Score (569.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (569.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (313)
    3h 54m listening time • Released 2006

    Scott Brick's measured, cerebral performance transforms this Victorian-era classic into something genuinely unsettling—he makes Wells's social commentary hit harder than the time travel spectacle ever could.

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    Warlord Conquering (The Great Insurrection)

    The Great Insurrection • Book 3

    by David Beers

    Narrated by Bradley Foster Smith, Catherine Aselford, Chris Stinson, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Jourdan, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Rob McFadyen

    3.83 ABR Score (379 ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (360) ★ 4.79 Audible (19)
    4h 58m listening time • Released 2021

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