Audie Award for Science Fiction

The Audie Award for Science Fiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a science-fiction audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2003.

## Winners and finalists

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Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.

### 2000s

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Year  | Audiobook  | Author(s)  | Narrator(s)  | Publisher  | Result  | Ref.

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2003[1]
8th | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002)  | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | Scott Brick | Books on Tape  | Winner  | [2]
Catch the Lightning (1998)  | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
The Fifth Sorceress (2002)  | Robert Newcomb | John Lee | Books on Tape  | Finalist  |
The Pillars of Creation (2001)  | Terry Goodkind | Jim Bond | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist  |
Thief of Time (2001)  | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | Ulverscroft Large Print  | Finalist  |
2004[3]
9th | Monstrous Regiment (2003)  | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | HarperAudio  | Winner  | [2]
Darwin's Children (2003)  | Greg Bear | Scott Brick | Books on Tape  | Finalist  |
Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003)  | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | Scott Brick | Audio Renaissance  | Finalist  |
Still Life with Crows (2003)  | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois | Time Warner AudioBooks  | Finalist  |
The Callahan Chronicles (1988)  | Spider Robinson | Barrett Whitener | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
2005[4]
10th | Lost Boys (1992)  | Orson Scott Card | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio  | Winner  | [2]
Brimstone (2004)  | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois | Time Warner AudioBooks  | Finalist  |
The Consciousness Plague (2002)  | Paul Levinson | Mark Shanahan | Listen & Live Audio  | Finalist  |
Horizon Storms (2004)  | Kevin J. Anderson | George Guidall | Recorded Books  | Finalist  |
The Quantum Rose (2000)  | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
2006
11th | Market Forces (2004)  | Richard K. Morgan | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio  | Winner  | [2]
Dragonsblood (2005)  | Todd McCaffrey | Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist  |
Shadow of the Giant (2005)  | Orson Scott Card | David Birney, Scott Brick, and full cast  | Audio Renaissance  | Finalist  |
The Rolling Stones (1952)  | Robert A. Heinlein | David Baker | Full Cast Audio  | Finalist  |
The Vor Game (1990)  | Lois McMaster Bujold | Grover Gardner | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
2007
12th | Stolen Child (2006)  | Keith Donohue | Andy Paris and Jeff Woodman  | Recorded Books  | Winner  | [2][5]
Callahan's Legacy (1996)  | Spider Robinson | Spider Robinson | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
Street Magic (2001)  | Tamora Pierce | Bruce Coville and full cast  | Full Cast Audio  | Finalist  |
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956)  | Richard Matheson | Yuri Rasovsky | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
Voyagers (1981)  | Ben Bova | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
2008
13th | Dune (1965)  | Frank Herbert | Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, and Ilyana Kadushin  | Audible  | Winner  | [2]
The Draco Tavern (2006)  | Larry Niven | Tom Weiner | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)  | Jack Finney | Kristoffer Tabori | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
Ravens of Avalon (2007)  | Diana L. Paxson | Lorna Raver | Tantor Audio  | Finalist  |
Selections from Dreamsongs 1 (2003)  | George R. R. Martin | Claudia Black, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Roy Dotrice, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, and Adrian Paul | Random House Audio  | Finalist  |
2009
14th | Calculating God (2000)  | Robert J. Sawyer | Jonathan Davis and Robert J. Sawyer | Audible  | Winner  | [2][6]
Childhood's End (1954)  | Arthur C. Clarke | Erich Michael Summerer | Audible  | Finalist  |
Ghost Radio (2008)  | Leopoldo Gout | Pedro Pascal | HarperAudio  | Finalist  |
Skybreaker (2005)  | Kenneth Oppel | David Kelly | Full Cast Audio  | Finalist  |
Sunrise Alley (2004)  | Catherine Asaro | Hillary Huber | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |

### 2010s

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Year  | Audiobook  | Author(s)  | Narrator(s)  | Publisher  | Result  | Ref.

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2010
15th | Bellwether (1996)  | Connie Willis | Kate Reading | Blackstone Audio  | Winner  | [2][7]
The Gathering Storm (2009)  | Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson  | Kate Reading and Michael Kramer  | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  |
Kushiel's Dart (2001)  | Jacqueline Carey | Anne Flosnik | Tantor Audio  | Finalist  |
Kushiel's Scion (2006) Jacqueline Carey | Jacqueline Carey | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio  | Finalist  |
Podkayne of Mars (1963)  | Robert A. Heinlein | Emily Janice Card | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
2011
16th | Jitters (2010)  | Adele Parks | Adele Park, Susan Paige Lane, and full cast  | Straight to Audio Productions  | Winner  | [2][8]
Great Classic Science Fiction (1911–1962)  | H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, et al.  | Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, et al.  | AudioGO  | Finalist  |
Room (2010)  | Emma Donoghue | Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren  | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  |
The Shadow Effect (2009)  | Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | HarperAudio  | Finalist  |
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)  | Oscar Wilde | Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf  | L.A. Theatre Works  | Finalist  |
2012
17th | The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)  | Harry Harrison | Phil Gigante | Brilliance Audio  | Winner  | [2][9]
Watch (2010)  | Robert J. Sawyer | Jessica Almasy, Marc Vietor, Oliver Wyman, Jennifer Van Dyck, and Robert J. Sawyer | Audible  | Finalist  |
The Day of the Triffids (1951)  | John Wyndham | Graeme Malcolm | Audible  | Finalist  |
Black Magic Sanction (2010)  | Kim Harrison | Marguerite Gavin | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  |
Feed (2010)  | Mira Grant | Paula Christensen and Jesse Bernstein  | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  |
Halo: Evolutions (2009)  | Tobias Buckell, Jonathan Goff, et al.  | Steve Downes, Holter Graham, Frank O'Connor, and Jen Taylor | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  |
2013
18th | The Age of Miracles (2012)  | Karen Thompson Walker | Emily Rankin | Random House Audio  | Winner  | [2][10]
14 (2013)  | Peter Clines | Ray Porter | Audible  | Finalist  |
Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess (2012)  | Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio | Angela Dawe | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist  |
Invincible (2012)  | Jack Campbell | Christian Rummel | Audible  | Finalist  |
Pure (2012)  | Julianna Baggott | Julianna Baggott, Khristine Hvam, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collins, and Casey Holloway  | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  |
2014
19th | Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012)  | Lois McMaster Bujold | Grover Gardner | Blackstone Audio  | Winner  | [2][11]
Extinction Machine (2013)  | Jonathan Maberry | Ray Porter | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  | [11]
MaddAddam (2013)  | Margaret Atwood | Bernadette Dunn, Bob Walter, and Robbie Daymond | Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist  | [11]
The Martian (2011)  | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray | Podium Publishing  | Finalist  | [11]
Protector (2013)  | C. J. Cherryh | Daniel Thomas May | Audible  | Finalist  | [11]
Shaman (2013)  | Kim Stanley Robinson | Graeme Malcolm | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [11]
2015
20th | The Martian (revised) (2011)  | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray | Podium Publishing  | Winner  | [2][12]
The Beam: Season 1 (2014)  | Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant  | Johnny Heller, Tara Sands, and full cast  | Podium Publishing  | Finalist  | [12]
Dark Eden (2012)  | Chris Beckett | Matthew Frow, Jayne Entwistle, and full cast  | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist  | [12]
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)  | Claire North | Peter Kenny | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [12]
Lock In (2014)  | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, and full cast  | Audible  | Finalist  | [12]
2016
21st | Jurassic Park (1990)  | Michael Crichton | Scott Brick | Brilliance Audio  | Winner  | [2][13]
Ancillary Mercy (2015)  | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [13]
Aurora (2015)  | Kim Stanley Robinson | Ali Ahn | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [13]
Golden Son (2015)  | Pierce Brown | Tim Gerard Reynolds | Recorded Books  | Finalist  | [13]
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (2015)  | Tom Angleberger | Marc Thompson | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist  | [13]
2017
22nd | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)  | Alan Dean Foster | Marc Thompson | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Winner  | [14]
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2014)  | Meg Elison | Angela Dawe | Brilliance Audio  | Finalist  | [14]
Crosstalk (2016)  | Connie Willis | Mia Barron | Recorded Books  | Finalist  | [14]
The Dispatcher (2016)  | John Scalzi | Zachary Quinto | Audible  | Finalist  | [14]
Sleeping Giants (2016)  | Sylvain Neuvel | Andy Secombe, Eric Meyers, and full cast  | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape  | Finalist  | [14]
2018
23rd | Provenance (2017)  | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio  | Winner  | [15]
Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (2017)  | Christie Golden | Janina Gavankar | Random House Audio  | Finalist  |
New York 2140 (2017)  | Kim Stanley Robinson | Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, and full cast  | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  |
The Stone Sky (2017)  | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  |
The X Files: Cold Cases (2017)  | Joe Harris, Chris Carter, and Dirk Maggs | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and full cast  | Audible  | Finalist  |
2019
24th | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase (2004)  | Douglas Adams | Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and full cast  | BBC Audiobooks America  | Winner  | [16]
Artemis (2017)  | Andy Weir | Rosario Dawson | Audible  | Finalist  |
Black Star Renegades (2018)  | Michael Moreci | Dan Bittner | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  |
Head On (2018)  | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton | Audible  | Finalist  |
Planetside (2018)  | Michael Mammay | R. C. Bray | HarperAudio  | Finalist  |

### 2020s

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Year  | Audiobook  | Author(s)  | Narrator(s)  | Publisher  | Result  | Ref.

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2020
25th | Emergency Skin (2019)  | N. K. Jemisin | Jason Isaacs | Brilliance Audio  | Winner  | [17]
Hollow Kingdom (2019)  | Kira Jane Buxton | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [17]
The Last Astronaut (2019)  | David Wellington | Megan Tusing | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [17]
The Lesson (2019)  | Cadwell Turnbull | Ron Butler and Janina Edwards  | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  | [17]
Permafrost (2019)  | Alastair Reynolds | Natasha Soudek | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  | [17]
2021
26th | The Deep (2019)  | Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutston, and Jonathan Snipes  | Daveed Diggs | Simon & Schuster Audio  | Winner  | [18]
Aliens: Phalanx (2020)  | Scott Sigler | Bronson Pinchot | Blackstone Audio  | Finalist  | [18]
Axiom's End (2020)  | Lindsay Ellis | Stephanie Willis and Abigail Thorn | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  | [18]
Heaven's River (2020)  | Dennis E. Taylor | Ray Porter | Audible Originals  | Finalist  | [18]
Ruins of the Galaxy (2018)  | J. N. Chaney and Christopher Hopper  | R. C. Bray | Podium Audio  | Finalist  | [18]
Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (2020)  | Timothy Zahn | Marc Thompson | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist  | [18]
2022

27th

| Project Hail Mary (2021) | Andy Weir | Ray Porter | Audible Studios  | Winner  | [19]
Day Zero (2021)  | C. Robert Cargill | Vikas Adam | HarperAudio  | Finalist  | [19]
Orphan Wars | Scott Moon and J.N. Chaney  | Luke Daniels | Podium Audio  | Finalist  | [19]
Pastel Pink | Nikki Minty | Khristine Hvam, James Patrick Cronin, and Jodie Harris  | Nikki Minty  | Finalist  | [19]
Ready Player Two (2020)  | Ernest Cline | Wil Wheaton | Penguin Random House Audio  | Finalist  | [19]
2023

28th

| Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc. | Ash Bishop | Scott Brick and Suzanne Elise Freeman | CamCat Books | Winner  | [20]
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, and Jason Culp | HarperAudio | Finalist  | [20]
No Kindness Too Soon | Sylvain Neuvel | Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, and Garrett Michael Brown | Audible Originals | Finalist  | [20]
NOOR | Nnedi Okorafor | Délé Ogundiran | Tantor Audio | Finalist  | [20]
YMIR | Rich Larson | Alan Medcroft | Hachette Audio | Finalist  | [20]
2024

29th

| Cassandra in Reverse | Holly Smale | Kristin Atherton | HarperAudio  | Winner  | [21]
The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [21]
The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei | Skaer Sarah | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  | [21]
Dual Memory | Sue Burke | Santana André | Dreamscape Media  | Finalist  | [21]
Wool | Hugh Howey | Ballerini Edoardo | Blackstone Publishing  | Finalist  | [21]
2025

30th

| The Book of Doors | Gareth Brown | Miranda Raison | HarperAudio  | Winner  | [22]
Frontier | Grace Curtis | Aven Shore | Tantor Audio  | Finalist  | [22]
Lake of Souls | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio  | Finalist  | [22]
Mal Goes to War | Edward Ashton | John Pirhalla and Katharine Chin  | Macmillan Audio  | Finalist  | [22]
System Collapse | Martha Wells | Kevin R. Free | Recorded Books, Inc.  | Finalist  | [22]

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