Where to Start with David Brin
- Best entry point → The Postman
- Best standalone → Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Start The Uplift Saga series → Sundiver
- What fans keep coming back to → Startide Rising
- Best narrator for David Brin → The Uplift War
- Highest rated by listeners → The Practice Effect
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The Postman
by David Brin
Narrated by Kevin Kenerly
★ 4.05 ABR Score (39.7K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (37.7K) ★ 4.46 Audible (2.0K)9h 55m listening time • Released 2020 - 2
The Uplift War
The Uplift Saga • Book 3
by David Brin
Narrated by George K. Wilson
★ 4.03 ABR Score (28.2K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.38 Audible (718)27h 52m listening time • Released 2008 - 3
Startide Rising
The Uplift Saga • Book 2
by David Brin
Narrated by George K. Wilson
★ 3.99 ABR Score (34.4K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (33.5K) ★ 4.32 Audible (938)17h 25m listening time • Released 2008 - 4
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Narrated by David DeVries, Kristin Kalbli
★ 3.86 ABR Score (227.7K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K) ★ 4.16 Audible (228)26h 5m listening time • Released 2012 - 5
The Practice Effect
by David Brin
Narrated by Andy Caploe
★ 3.74 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (3.8K) ★ 4.23 Audible (179)12h 13m listening time • Released 2012 - 6
Old Venus
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Ian McDonald, Garth Nix, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Matthew Hughes, Paul McAuley, Lavie Tidhar, Allen M. Steele, Stephen Leigh, Eleanor Arnason, David Brin, Michael Cassutt, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Joe R. Lansdale, Mike Resnick
Narrated by Diana Rigg, Full Cast, Michael Dorn, Stephen Fry, Jake Stormoen, W. Morgan Sheppard, Gethin Anthony, Wil Wheaton, Janis Ian, Ron Donachie, Various
★ 3.61 ABR Score (821 ratings)★ 3.57 Goodreads (734) ★ 3.99 Audible (87)22h 17m listening time • Released 2015 - 7
Sundiver
The Uplift Saga • Book 1
by David Brin
Narrated by George K. Wilson
★ 3.57 ABR Score (29.1K ratings)★ 3.69 Goodreads (27.8K) ★ 3.9 Audible (1.3K)12h 32m listening time • Released 2008 - 8
Existence
by David Brin
Narrated by Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser
★ 3.53 ABR Score (8.4K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (7.2K) ★ 3.84 Audible (1.2K)32h 25m listening time • Released 2012 - 9
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century
by Martin H. Greenberg, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, David Brin, John W. Campbell Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl, Eric Frank Russell, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Alexander Siddig, Melissa Manchester
Narrated by David Ackroyd, Wil Wheaton
★ 3.44 ABR Score (636 ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (165) ★ 3.73 Audible (471)6h 28m listening time • Released 1999Wil Wheaton and David Ackroyd elevate these classic stories into a master class in audio performance, with each narrator bringing distinct voices that make the genre's most inventive ideas actually land emotionally.
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