Best Stefan Rudnicki Audiobooks

Ender's Game

The Ender Saga • Book 1

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir

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.

Speaker for the Dead

The Ender Saga • Book 2

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki

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

Shadows in Flight

The Shadow • Book 5

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick

Stefan Rudnicki and Scott Brick trade off brilliantly here, keeping the multi-generational stakes sharp across Bean's desperate race against his own biology. It's hard sci-fi with real emotional weight.

Xenocide

Ender's Saga • Book 3

by Orson Scott Card

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

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.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder • Book 1

by Orson Scott Card

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

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.

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

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.

Deadman's Road

by Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki nails the profane swagger of a preacher-gunslinger battling cosmic horrors in the Old West, making Lansdale's genre-blending chaos feel genuinely urgent and darkly hilarious.

Red Prophet

Tales of Alvin Maker • Book 2

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Scott Brick, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki

Three top-tier narrators bring Card's alternate-history magic system to life with distinct voices that make this sprawling frontier fantasy breathe in ways the page simply can't.

Antiphon

Psalms of Isaak • Book 3

by Ken Scholes

Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubenstein, Stefan Rudnicki

Four narrators nail the intricate voices across this epic's sprawling cast, making a complex third book feel immediate and grounded rather than confusing.

V-Wars

V-Wars: Chronicles of the Vampire Wars • Book 1

by Jonathan Maberry, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Scott Nicholson, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, Dacre Stoker

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne Hernadez, Arte Johnson, Stefan Rudnicki, Wil Wheaton

Multiple award-winning narrators bring distinct voices to this interconnected vampire outbreak anthology, making each story feel like a different director's cut of a global crisis unfolding in real time.

The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson, A.M. Homes

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki

Hymn

Psalms of Isaak • Book 5

by Ken Scholes

Narrated by Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle De Cuir, Kristoffer Tabori, Emily Rankin, John Rubinstein

A masterful ensemble cast—Brick, Rudnicki, De Cuir among them—elevates this epic finale, where multiple narrators embody distinct voices across warring empires and cosmic stakes, making the audiobook experience feel like prestige drama.

Requiem

Psalms of Isaak • Book 4

by Ken Scholes

Narrated by Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, John Rubinstein, Kristoffer Tabori, Gabrielle De Cuir, Scott Brick

A star-studded ensemble cast elevates this intricate finale, with each narrator perfectly capturing their character's voice across a sprawling, myth-heavy conclusion that finally answers what's been hidden since book one.

Greatest Hits

by Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Khaw, J. Michael Straczynski

Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, Tim Lounibos, Scott Brick, Steven Jay Cohen, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Dion Graham, Edoardo Ballerini, Stefan Rudnicki, Angelo Di Loreto, Luis Moreno

A masterclass in short-form sci-fi storytelling where Ellison's unhinged brilliance gets the ensemble treatment it deserves. Multiple narrators make each twisted tale land harder.

The Crystal City

Tales of Alvin Maker • Book 6

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, M. E. Willis

Cruel Miracles

Maps in a Mirror • Book 4

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki

Three narrators bring distinct voices to Card's best short fiction, making this collection feel like stories told by different storytellers rather than a single audiobook monotone.

Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn

by Brian Merchant, Claire L. Evans, Cory Doctorow, Sam Biddle, James Bridle, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Tobias S. Buckell, Tori Cárdenas, Shannon Chamberlain, Chloe Cole, Nan Craig, Malon Edwards, Omar El Akkad, Meg Elison, Rose Eveleth, Fernando A. Flores, Paul Ford, Sarah Gailey, Peter Milne Greiner, Malcolm Harris, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Dana Hudson, Sahil Lavingia, Tao Lin, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Joanne McNeil, Lincoln Michel, Sam J. Miller, Lia Swope Mitchell, Gus Moreno, Kevin Nguyen, Russell Nichols, Frankie Ochoa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Laurie Penny, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Robin Sloan, Emily J. Smith, Julian Mortimer Smith, Bruce Sterling, Seamus Sullivan, Wole Talabi, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Ellen Ullman, Debbie Urbanski, Jeff Vandermeer, Marlee Jane Ward, Elvia Wilk, Max Wynne, E. Lily Yu, Jess Zimmerman

Narrated by Hillary Huber, Chris Henry Coffey, André Santana, Graham Halstead, Rasha Zamamiri, Bahni Turpin, Stefan Rudnicki, Janina Edwards, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Feodor Chin, Kyla Garcia, Vivienne Leheny, Mark Bramhall, Full Cast

Master Alvin

Tales of Alvin Maker • Book 7

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, Kirby Heyborne, Mirron Willis, Nan McNamara, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki

A full ensemble cast brings genuine depth to Card's alternate American frontier—each narrator becomes their character so completely that the dialogue crackles with real tension and warmth.

The Last Shadow

The Shadow • Book 6

by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki

A stacked ensemble cast transforms the finale of Card's dual series into something genuinely cinematic—each narrator owns their character so completely you forget you're listening to different voices telling one story.

Keeper of Dreams, Volume 1: Atlantis and Other Stories

Pastwatch #0.5

by Paul Boehmer, Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne, Mirron Willis, Mark Deakins

Narrated by Scott Brick, Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card

Multiple award-winning narrators (including Orson Scott Card himself) bring these 24 stories to life with the kind of ensemble cast treatment that elevates short fiction into an event.

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir

Rudnicki and de Cuir split these interconnected horror stories into a haunting dual-voice experience that makes Chambers' descent-into-madness narrative feel disturbingly intimate and immediate.

The Best of Fantasy 2001

by Robert Silverberg, Greg van Eeckhout, Rosemary Edghill, Lawrence Miles, Poul Anderson, Robert Thurston, Brian A. Hopkins, Jack O'Connell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, M.E. Wills

Narrated by Jason Cole, Terry Fishman, Gabrielle de Cuir, William Windom, Scott Brick, Catherine Asaro, Iris Bahr, M.E. Willis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stefan Rudnicki

A stellar ensemble cast elevates this genre-spanning 2001 collection where Le Guin and Anderson sit alongside emerging voices, each narrator perfectly matched to their story's voice and mood.

The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story

by Wilkie Collins

Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, Kathe Mazur, Nan McNamara, Bahni Turpin, John Rubinstein

A Victorian mystery where Collins' trademark plot twists collide with an all-star ensemble cast—each narrator becomes a suspect, making you question everyone's reliability at once.

Collected Stories

by Lewis Shiner

Narrated by David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kimberly Farr, Janis Ian, Rex Linn, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki

A stellar ensemble cast elevates Shiner's genre-bending stories, each narrator perfectly matched to their tale's emotional core. Twenty hours of inventive sci-fi and fantasy that rewards deep listening.

Lamentation

Psalms of Isaak • Book 1

by Ken Scholes

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, William Dufris, Maggi-Meg Reed

Four narrators bring distinct voices to a sprawling fantasy debut where a single catastrophic act unravels an entire world's power structure. Rudnicki, Brick, Dufris, and Reed make the ensemble cast feel genuinely alive across 15 hours of political intrigue and hard-won stakes.