Audiobooks Like Shadow of the Hegemon

10 audiobooks for fans of Shadow of the Hegemon

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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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   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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   Children of the Mind

   Ender's Saga • Book 4

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein

   ★ 4.08 ABR Score (124.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.78 Goodreads (114.4K) ★ 4.43 Audible (10.4K)

   13h 30m listening time • Released 2004

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   Ender's Shadow

   Ender's Shadow • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (194.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (180.6K) ★ 4.76 Audible (13.8K)

   15h 42m listening time • Released 2005

   A companion novel that retells Ender's Game from Bean's perspective — and in many ways surpasses the original in emotional depth and strategic brilliance.

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   The Folk of the Fringe

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Richard Brewer

   ★ 3.34 ABR Score (4.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.33 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.65 Audible (233)

   10h 35m listening time • Released 2007

   Multiple narrators bring distinct voices to Card's post-apocalyptic vision, turning what could be dry survival narrative into something intimate and deeply human about rebuilding from nothing.

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   Xenocide

   Ender's Saga • Book 3

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (179.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.82 Goodreads (166.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (13.3K)

   20h 10m listening time • Released 2003

   A stellar ensemble cast elevates Card's most philosophically ambitious Ender book, with five narrators embodying distinct worlds and perspectives across 20 hours of complex, character-driven science fiction.

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   Pathfinder

   Pathfinder • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, Kristoffer Tabori, Scott Brick

   ★ 4.03 ABR Score (30.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (25.1K) ★ 4.32 Audible (5.7K)

   17h 41m listening time • Released 2010

   A five-narrator ensemble cast elevates this time-travel mystery into something genuinely immersive—each voice pins down a character so distinctly you forget you're listening to an audiobook at all.

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   The Worthing Saga

   Worthing #1-3

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   Scott Brick's measured, introspective narration captures the philosophical depth that defines both works, making the epic scope of The Worthing Saga feel as intimate and character-driven as Shadow of the Hegemon. Card's exploration of power, morality, and the burden of leadership carries through both narratives, though The Worthing Saga expands these themes across generations and worlds with the same thoughtful complexity that listeners appreciated in the first book.

   ★ 3.73 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (9.2K) ★ 4.07 Audible (1.2K)

   18h 34m listening time • Released 2005

   Scott Brick transforms Card's interconnected stories about humanity's long sleep into something genuinely haunting—his measured delivery makes the slow corruption of immortality feel intimate and inevitable.

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   Pretty Boy: The Story of Bonzo Madrid

   Ender's Saga short stories • Book 4

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 3.58 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.53 Goodreads (612) ★ 4.06 Audible (442)

   Scott Brick's narration transforms this psychological character study into something haunting—a portrait of how parental ambition can fracture a child, told with surgical precision and devastating emotional weight.

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    Catalyst

    Breakthrough • Book 3

    by Michael C. Grumley

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (11.8K) ★ 4.72 Audible (1.5K)

    13h 7m listening time • Released 2019

    Scott Brick elevates this high-concept sci-fi mystery with the kind of measured intensity that makes you forget you're listening—each revelation lands harder because his performance never oversells the stakes.

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