Audiobooks Like Stories of Your Life and Others

Abby Craden and Todd McLaren share narration duties on Ted Chiang's stories, and the choice to use two voices for an anthology built around radically different subjective experiences is quietly apt — each story has its own sonic identity, and at 10 hours the collection doesn't ask you to carry the same register from one conceptual world to the next. Craden's chapters in particular reward close listening. Two of the recommendations are also narrated by Ray Porter on Dennis E. Taylor's work, anchoring the list in a broader tradition of intellectually ambitious sci-fi that trusts its listeners to sit with hard questions, most of them highly rated.

10 audiobooks for fans of Stories of Your Life and Others

  1. 1
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    Halo: The Fall of Reach

    Halo • Book 1

    by Eric S. Nylund

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

    ★ 4.51 ABR Score (44.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (36.3K) ★ 4.78 Audible (8.4K)
    11h 3m listening time • Released 2019
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    Recursion

    by Blake Crouch

    Narrated by Abby Craden, Jon Lindstrom

    ★ 4.11 ABR Score (327.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (327.6K) ★ 4.53 Audible (109)
    10h 47m listening time • Released 2019
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    Dead Space

    by Kali Wallace

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    ★ 3.59 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 3.95 Audible (228)
    9h 1m listening time • Released 2021
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  4. 4
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    Omniverse: Book II of the Omniverse Chronicles

    Omniverse Chronicles • Book 2

    by William Grace, Abby Craden

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    ★ 3.54 ABR Score (1 ratings)
    ★ 5 Audible (1)
    11h 2m listening time • Released 2020
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    For We Are Many

    Bobiverse • Book 2

    by Dennis E. Taylor

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K) ★ 4.77 Audible (74.0K)
    8h 59m listening time • Released 2017

    Ray Porter's performance transforms the Bobiverse's multiple Bobs from a gimmick into genuinely distinct voices—each one feels like a real person making impossible decisions while the stakes keep escalating in ways that actually land.

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    Not Till We Are Lost

    Bobiverse • Book 5

    by Dennis E. Taylor

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.50 ABR Score (32.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (19.1K) ★ 4.73 Audible (13.2K)
    11h 41m listening time • Released 2024

    Ray Porter's narration elevates this fifth Bobiverse book into something genuinely transcendent—his ability to juggle dozens of distinct Bob personalities while maintaining emotional stakes turns what could be gimmicky into genuinely moving sci-fi.

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    Kindred

    by Octavia E. Butler

    Narrated by Kim Staunton

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (294.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (15.6K)
    10h 55m listening time • Released 2007
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    A Closed and Common Orbit

    Wayfarers • Book 2

    by Becky Chambers

    Narrated by Rachel Dulude

    ★ 4.44 ABR Score (92.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (89.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (2.4K)
    11h 29m listening time • Released 2019
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    Altered Carbon

    Takeshi Kovacs • Book 1

    by Richard K. Morgan

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

    ★ 4.09 ABR Score (131.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (115.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (15.7K)
    17h 10m listening time • Released 2005
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  10. 10
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    Dawn of Chaos (Eve of Destruction Book 4)

    Eve of Destruction • Book 4

    by Benjamin Medrano

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    ★ 4.03 ABR Score (504 ratings)
    ★ 4.65 Goodreads (392) ★ 4.84 Audible (112)
    13h 11m listening time • Released 2023
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