The best science fiction audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Science Fiction winner
Looking for a science fiction audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Science Fiction category — 24 winners from 2003 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best science fiction production of each year. The most recent winner is Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer, narrated by Ray Porter, Marin Ireland, Stephanie Sheh.
| Year | Narrator | Audiobook | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ray Porter, Marin Ireland, Stephanie Sheh | Simultaneous | Eric Heisserer |
| 2025 | Miranda Raison | The Book of Doors | Gareth Brown |
| 2024 | Kristin Atherton | Cassandra in Reverse | Holly Smale |
| 2023 | Scott Brick, Suzanne Elise Freeman | Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc. | Ash Bishop |
| 2022 | Ray Porter | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| 2021 | Daveed Diggs | The Deep | Rivers Solomon et al. |
| 2020 | Jason Isaacs | Emergency Skin | N. K. Jemisin |
| 2019 | Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, full cast | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase | Douglas Adams |
| 2018 | Adjoa Andoh | Provenance | Ann Leckie |
| 2017 | Marc Thompson | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Alan Dean Foster |
| 2016 | Scott Brick | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| 2015 | R. C. Bray | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| 2014 | Grover Gardner | Captain Vorpatril's Alliance | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 2013 | Emily Rankin | The Age of Miracles | Karen Thompson Walker |
| 2012 | Phil Gigante | The Stainless Steel Rat | Harry Harrison |
| 2011 | Adele Park, Susan Paige Lane, full cast | Jitters | Adele Parks |
| 2010 | Kate Reading | Bellwether | Connie Willis |
| 2009 | Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | Robert J. Sawyer |
| 2008 | Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 2007 | Andy Paris, Jeff Woodman | Stolen Child | Keith Donohue |
| 2006 | Simon Vance | Market Forces | Richard K. Morgan |
| 2005 | Stefan Rudnicki | Lost Boys | Orson Scott Card |
| 2004 | Stephen Briggs | Monstrous Regiment | Terry Pratchett |
| 2003 | Scott Brick | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad | Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
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Most-awarded science fiction narrators
Scott Brick (4 wins) · Ray Porter (2 wins) · Simon Vance (2 wins).
Most-awarded science fiction authors
Andy Weir (2 wins).
Every Audie Science Fiction finalist (the full nominee record)
The Audie Science Fiction category names finalists alongside each winner. These 100 audiobooks were nominated but didn't win — also sourced; each title's full record is in the A–Z index.
| Year | Finalist | Author | Narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | All-Star Superman | Grant Morrison; Frank Quitely | Marc Thompson, Kristen Sieh, Christopher Smith, Jessica Almasy, Matthew Amendt, Pete Bradbury, Scott Brick, Brennan Brown, Will Damron, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Lauren Ezzo, Robert Fass, James Fouhey, Todd Haberkorn, Neil Hellegers, Dominic Hoffman, Đavid Lee Huỳnh, Joshua Kane, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Brandon McInnis, Ray Porter, Salli Saffioti, Catherine Taber, Oliver Wyman |
| 2026 | Flybot | Dennis E. Taylor | Ray Porter |
| 2026 | New Arcadia: Judgment Day | Eric Jason Martin | Eric Jason Martin, Robert Patrick, Matthew Mercer, Erika Ishii, Sam Riegel, Dave Fennoy, Marin Ireland, January LaVoy, James Urbaniak, Emily Woo Zeller, full cast |
| 2026 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | Jess Hong |
| 2026 | The Two Lies of Faven Sythe | Megan E. O'Keefe | Zara Ramm |
| 2025 | Frontier | Grace Curtis | Aven Shore |
| 2025 | Lake of Souls | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh |
| 2025 | Mal Goes to War | Edward Ashton | John Pirhalla, Katharine Chin |
| 2025 | System Collapse | Martha Wells | Kevin R. Free |
| 2024 | Dual Memory | Sue Burke | Santana André |
| 2024 | The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei | Skaer Sarah |
| 2024 | The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles |
| 2024 | Wool | Hugh Howey | Ballerini Edoardo |
| 2023 | How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu | Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure, Jason Culp |
| 2023 | No Kindness Too Soon | Sylvain Neuvel | Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, Garrett Michael Brown |
| 2023 | NOOR | Nnedi Okorafor | Délé Ogundiran |
| 2023 | YMIR | Rich Larson | Alan Medcroft |
| 2022 | Day Zero | C. Robert Cargill | Vikas Adam |
| 2022 | Orphan Wars | Scott Moon; J.N. Chaney | Luke Daniels |
| 2022 | Pastel Pink | Nikki Minty | Khristine Hvam, James Patrick Cronin, Jodie Harris |
| 2022 | Ready Player Two | Ernest Cline | Wil Wheaton |
| 2021 | Aliens: Phalanx | Scott Sigler | Bronson Pinchot |
| 2021 | Axiom's End | Lindsay Ellis | Stephanie Willis, Abigail Thorn |
| 2021 | Heaven's River | Dennis E. Taylor | Ray Porter |
| 2021 | Ruins of the Galaxy | J. N. Chaney; Christopher Hopper | R. C. Bray |
| 2021 | Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising | Timothy Zahn | Marc Thompson |
| 2020 | Hollow Kingdom | Kira Jane Buxton | Robert Petkoff |
| 2020 | Permafrost | Alastair Reynolds | Natasha Soudek |
| 2020 | The Last Astronaut | David Wellington | Megan Tusing |
| 2020 | The Lesson | Cadwell Turnbull | Ron Butler, Janina Edwards |
| 2019 | Artemis | Andy Weir | Rosario Dawson |
| 2019 | Black Star Renegades | Michael Moreci | Dan Bittner |
| 2019 | Head On | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton |
| 2019 | Planetside | Michael Mammay | R. C. Bray |
| 2018 | Battlefront II: Inferno Squad | Christie Golden | Janina Gavankar |
| 2018 | New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, full cast |
| 2018 | The Stone Sky | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles |
| 2018 | The X Files: Cold Cases | Joe Harris; Chris Carter; Dirk Maggs | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, full cast |
| 2017 | Crosstalk | Connie Willis | Mia Barron |
| 2017 | Sleeping Giants | Sylvain Neuvel | Andy Secombe, Eric Meyers, full cast |
| 2017 | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife | Meg Elison | Angela Dawe |
| 2017 | The Dispatcher | John Scalzi | Zachary Quinto |
| 2016 | Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh |
| 2016 | Aurora | Kim Stanley Robinson | Ali Ahn |
| 2016 | Golden Son | Pierce Brown | Tim Gerard Reynolds |
| 2016 | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! | Tom Angleberger | Marc Thompson |
| 2015 | Dark Eden | Chris Beckett | Matthew Frow, Jayne Entwistle, full cast |
| 2015 | Lock In | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, full cast |
| 2015 | The Beam: Season 1 | Sean Platt; Johnny B. Truant | Johnny Heller, Tara Sands, full cast |
| 2015 | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North | Peter Kenny |
| 2014 | Extinction Machine | Jonathan Maberry | Ray Porter |
| 2014 | MaddAddam | Margaret Atwood | Bernadette Dunn, Bob Walter, Robbie Daymond |
| 2014 | Protector | C. J. Cherryh | Daniel Thomas May |
| 2014 | Shaman | Kim Stanley Robinson | Graeme Malcolm |
| 2014 | The Martian | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray |
| 2013 | 14 | Peter Clines | Ray Porter |
| 2013 | Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess | Phil Foglio; Kaja Foglio | Angela Dawe |
| 2013 | Invincible | Jack Campbell | Christian Rummel |
| 2013 | Pure | Julianna Baggott | Julianna Baggott, Khristine Hvam, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collins, Casey Holloway |
| 2012 | Black Magic Sanction | Kim Harrison | Marguerite Gavin |
| 2012 | Feed | Mira Grant | Paula Christensen, Jesse Bernstein |
| 2012 | Halo: Evolutions | Tobias Buckell; Jonathan Goff; et al. | Steve Downes, Holter Graham, Frank O'Connor, Jen Taylor |
| 2012 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Graeme Malcolm |
| 2012 | Watch | Robert J. Sawyer | Jessica Almasy, Marc Vietor, Oliver Wyman, Jennifer Van Dyck, Robert J. Sawyer |
| 2011 | Great Classic Science Fiction | H. G. Wells; Stanley G. Weinbaum; et al. | Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, et al. |
| 2011 | Room | Emma Donoghue | Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren |
| 2011 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, Matthew Wolf |
| 2011 | The Shadow Effect | Deepak Chopra; Debbie Ford; Marianne Williamson | Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson |
| 2010 | Kushiel's Dart | Jacqueline Carey | Anne Flosnik |
| 2010 | Kushiel's Scion | Jacqueline Carey | Simon Vance |
| 2010 | Podkayne of Mars | Robert A. Heinlein | Emily Janice Card |
| 2010 | The Gathering Storm | Robert Jordan; Brandon Sanderson | Kate Reading, Michael Kramer |
| 2009 | Childhood's End | Arthur C. Clarke | Erich Michael Summerer |
| 2009 | Ghost Radio | Leopoldo Gout | Pedro Pascal |
| 2009 | Skybreaker | Kenneth Oppel | David Kelly |
| 2009 | Sunrise Alley | Catherine Asaro | Hillary Huber |
| 2008 | Ravens of Avalon | Diana L. Paxson | Lorna Raver |
| 2008 | Selections from Dreamsongs 1 | George R. R. Martin | Claudia Black, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Roy Dotrice, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, Adrian Paul |
| 2008 | The Draco Tavern | Larry Niven | Tom Weiner |
| 2008 | The Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Jack Finney | Kristoffer Tabori |
| 2007 | Callahan's Legacy | Spider Robinson | Spider Robinson |
| 2007 | Street Magic | Tamora Pierce | Bruce Coville, full cast |
| 2007 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson | Yuri Rasovsky |
| 2007 | Voyagers | Ben Bova | Stefan Rudnicki |
| 2006 | Dragonsblood | Todd McCaffrey | Dick Hill |
| 2006 | Shadow of the Giant | Orson Scott Card | David Birney, Scott Brick, full cast |
| 2006 | The Rolling Stones | Robert A. Heinlein | David Baker |
| 2006 | The Vor Game | Lois McMaster Bujold | Grover Gardner |
| 2005 | Brimstone | Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois |
| 2005 | Horizon Storms | Kevin J. Anderson | George Guidall |
| 2005 | The Consciousness Plague | Paul Levinson | Mark Shanahan |
| 2005 | The Quantum Rose | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields |
| 2004 | Darwin's Children | Greg Bear | Scott Brick |
| 2004 | Dune: The Machine Crusade | Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson | Scott Brick |
| 2004 | Still Life with Crows | Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois |
| 2004 | The Callahan Chronicles | Spider Robinson | Barrett Whitener |
| 2003 | Catch the Lightning | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields |
| 2003 | The Fifth Sorceress | Robert Newcomb | John Lee |
| 2003 | The Pillars of Creation | Terry Goodkind | Jim Bond |
| 2003 | Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs |
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The rare double winner
Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, narrated by Ray Porter, won BOTH this category and the overall Audiobook of the Year in 2022 — the only title in this index to take a genre prize and the top prize in the same year.
See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.