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Science fiction stories are the ultimate escapist reads, bringing readers to new worlds and taking them on thrilling adventures. And while it is great to dive into these books, audiobooks can offer an even more immersive experience bringing these stories fully to life!

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    World War Z

    by Max Brooks

    We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. Featuring five more hours of previously unrecorded content, these additional episodes feature a star-studded cast of narrators.
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    Star Wars: Temptation of the Force (The High Republic)

    by Tessa Gratton

    The reunited Jedi prepare to strike back against the ruthless Nihil in this thrilling sequel to Star Wars: The Eye of Darkness. But to seek out the Nihil’s dangerous leader, the Jedi will have to survive the Nameless terrors that thus far they have been powerless to stop.
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    Zone One

    by Colson Whitehead

    In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: The uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre’s conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the 21st century.
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    Station Eleven

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse — the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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    The Olympian Affair

    by Jim Butcher

    The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships.
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    The Ferryman

    by Justin Cronin

    From the author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia — where the truth isn’t what it seems.
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    The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of 19th-century Mexico.
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    Dark Matter (Movie Tie-In)

    by Blake Crouch

    A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew — from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy.
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    Klara and the Sun

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures … a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press).
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    Ready Player One

    by Ernest Cline

    In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune — and control of the OASIS itself. The race is on — and the only way to survive is to win.
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    Sleeping Giants

    by Sylvain Neuvel

    An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery — and a fight to control a gargantuan power. Read by a full cast!
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    Counterweight

    by Djuna

    For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevator.
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    The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

    by Manuel Gonzales

    In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization — the Regional Office — and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack.
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    The Midnight Library

    by Matt Haig

    Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Would any of these other lives truly be better? The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Read by actress Carey Mulligan.
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    Exhalation

    by Ted Chiang

    Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others. Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: Profound, sympathetic, revelatory.
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    Delta-v

    by Daniel Suarez

    The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation — a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization.
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