Audiobooks Like System Collapse

10 audiobooks for fans of System Collapse

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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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   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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   What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

   What If? • Book 2

   by Randall Munroe

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (18.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (17.7K) ★ 4.73 Audible (1.2K)

   6h 35m listening time • Released 2022

   Wil Wheaton's deadpan delivery transforms Munroe's absurd physics questions into comedy gold—he nails the running joke of treating ridiculous scenarios with complete scientific seriousness.

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   Bloodchild and Other Stories

   by Octavia E. Butler

   Narrated by Malik Rashad, Allyson Johnson, Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.11 ABR Score (27.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (27.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (76)

   6h 15m listening time • Released 2023

   Three narrators bring Butler's prescient stories to vivid life, each voice sharpening how these speculative parables cut into our present moment. Her unflinching imagination about power, bodily autonomy, and survival hits harder when spoken aloud.

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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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   The Naked Sun

   Robot • Book 2

   by Isaac Asimov, Chris Moore

   Narrated by William Dufris

   ★ 4.42 ABR Score (67.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.2 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (3.0K)

   7h 41m listening time • Released 2014

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   2001: A Space Odyssey

   Space Odyssey Series • Book 1

   by Arthur C. Clarke

   Narrated by Dick Hill

   ★ 4.38 ABR Score (350.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.18 Goodreads (338.0K) ★ 4.55 Audible (12.5K)

   6h 42m listening time • Released 2008

   Clarke's landmark meditation on human evolution and artificial intelligence, written alongside Kubrick's film, remains awe-inspiring in its scope and quiet menace.

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   Trouble on Paradise

   Expeditionary Force #3.5 • Book 3

   by Craig Alanson

   Narrated by R.C. Bray

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (29.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (8.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (20.8K)

   5h 48m listening time • Released 2017

   R.C. Bray makes Alanson's sci-fi comedy sing—his deadpan delivery transforms every quip and catastrophe into pure entertainment gold.

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   Fuzzy Nation

   Fuzzy Sapiens • Book 7

   by John Scalzi

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi - introduction

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (46.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (32.3K) ★ 4.6 Audible (14.1K)

   7h 19m listening time • Released 2011

   Wil Wheaton's deadpan delivery is perfect for Scalzi's wisecracking protagonist—this is a lean, funny SF adventure that moves like a thriller and actually earns its emotional gut-punches.

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    What If?

    What If? • Book 1

    by Randall Munroe

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.28 ABR Score (211.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (197.2K) ★ 4.45 Audible (14.1K)

    6h 36m listening time • Released 2014

    Wil Wheaton's deadpan delivery transforms Munroe's absurd hypotheticals into pure comedy gold—he makes the physics funnier than the jokes themselves.

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