Audiobooks Like Network Effect

10 audiobooks for fans of Network Effect

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   Jurassic Park

   Jurassic Park • Book 1

   by Michael Crichton

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.60 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.76 Audible (46.8K)

   15h 10m listening time • Released 2015

   Crichton's genetic-engineering thriller is as much a gripping thought experiment as an action novel — the science is as terrifying as the dinosaurs.

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   Ender's Game

   The Ender Saga • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.63 Audible (44.6K)

   11h 57m listening time • Released 2002

   The gold standard of military sci-fi — a child prodigy trained for interstellar war in a story that's as emotionally devastating as it is thrillingly plotted.

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   World War Z

   World War Z

   by Max Brooks, Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner

   Narrated by Various

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (596.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (570.4K) ★ 4.65 Audible (26.0K)

   12h 9m listening time • Released 2013

   The all-star cast transforms each survivor's testimony into its own haunting performance, making this less audiobook and more immersive oral history that justifies every minute of its 12-hour runtime.

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   Speaker for the Dead

   The Ender Saga • Book 2

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (294.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (272.3K) ★ 4.56 Audible (22.3K)

   14h 8m listening time • Released 2002

   A richer and more ambitious book than Ender's Game, tackling xenobiology, grief, and moral philosophy in a story about understanding truly alien life.

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   Contact

   by Carl Sagan

   Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (159.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (153.3K) ★ 4.54 Audible (5.8K)

   14h 45m listening time • Released 2012

   Sagan's only novel is a rigorous, moving meditation on faith, science, and first contact — the audiobook restores the full scope of his vision.

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   The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

   by Robert A. Heinlein

   Narrated by Lloyd James

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (150.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (139.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (11.2K)

   14h 12m listening time • Released 2006

   A masterclass in world-building and political philosophy — Heinlein's lunar colony revolution is gripping, funny, and surprisingly prescient about AI.

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   The Fold

   Threshold • Book 2

   by Peter Clines

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.11 ABR Score (71.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.88 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (37.7K)

   10h 52m listening time • Released 2015

   Ray Porter elevates a mind-bending sci-fi mystery with crisp, controlled narration that keeps you locked in as reality itself becomes unreliable. The Fold clicks because it trusts your intelligence—no hand-holding, just mounting dread.

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   Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

   Pastwatch • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card

   ★ 3.97 ABR Score (17.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (15.8K) ★ 4.33 Audible (1.8K)

   13h 35m listening time • Released 2007

   A stellar ensemble cast elevates Card's audacious premise—rewriting Columbus through time travel becomes a meditation on whether good intentions can justify remaking history itself.

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   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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    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    St. Leibowitz • Book 1

    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

    Narrated by Tom Weiner

    ★ 3.92 ABR Score (126.4K ratings)

    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (120.4K) ★ 4.13 Audible (5.9K)

    10h 55m listening time • Released 2011

    A sweeping post-apocalyptic epic spanning centuries, following monks who preserve fragments of human knowledge — bleak, darkly funny, and deeply humane.

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