Audiobooks Like Hyperion

10 audiobooks for fans of Hyperion

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   Golden Son

   Red Rising • Book 2

   by Pierce Brown

   Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

   ★ 4.79 ABR Score (560.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (505.3K) ★ 4.81 Audible (55.5K)

   19h 3m listening time • Released 2015

   Tim Gerard Reynolds transforms this brutal space opera with a voice that captures both Darrow's rage and vulnerability, making the 19-hour listen feel essential rather than exhausting.

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   Dune

   Dune • Book 1

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers

   ★ 4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.67 Audible (126.5K)

   21h 2m listening time • Released 2007

   The Godfather of science fiction epics: a richly imagined desert world where politics, religion, and ecology collide in a story that feels more relevant every decade.

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   Children of Dune

   Dune • Book 3

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Simon Vance

   ★ 4.34 ABR Score (272.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (254.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (18.3K)

   16h 51m listening time • Released 2008

   Scott Brick and Simon Vance elevate Herbert's most intricate Dune novel with dual narration that captures the twins' divided consciousness and the empire's political chaos with surgical precision.

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   The Butlerian Jihad

   Legends of Dune • Book 1

   by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.21 ABR Score (95.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (90.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (5.2K)

   23h 41m listening time • Released 2003

   Scott Brick's measured, commanding delivery transforms this origin story into an epic that actually earns its scope—10,000 years of human resistance against thinking machines becomes visceral and immediate in his hands.

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   Heretics of Dune

   Dune • Book 5

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Simon Vance, Scott Brick

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (112.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (104.1K) ★ 4.55 Audible (8.1K)

   18h 4m listening time • Released 2008

   Vance and Brick's dual narration captures the philosophical depth and sprawling scope that makes Herbert's far-future vision so absorbing—a perfect match for a book that trades action for intricate power games across a collapsing empire.

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   Chapterhouse: Dune

   Dune • Book 6

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Simon Vance

   ★ 4.16 ABR Score (91.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (6.6K)

   16h 42m listening time • Released 2009

   The ensemble cast transforms Herbert's final, divisive chapter into something unexpectedly gripping—each narrator inhabiting distinct factions with such clarity that the competing ideologies actually click into place.

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   Xenocide

   Ender's Saga • Book 3

   by Orson Scott Card

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

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (179.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.82 Goodreads (166.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (13.3K)

   20h 10m listening time • Released 2003

   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.

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   Snow Crash

   by Neal Stephenson

   Narrated by Jonathan Davis

   Both epics blend intricate world-building with philosophical depth, weaving complex narratives that reward close attention across their expansive runtimes. Snow Crash matches Hyperion's ambition with its own sprawling exploration of reality, identity, and human connection, though filtered through a faster-paced, more contemporary lens that keeps the listening experience dynamic.

   ★ 4.04 ABR Score (320.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (299.2K) ★ 4.18 Audible (21.6K)

   17h 3m listening time • Released 2000

   Stephenson invented the Metaverse decades before anyone else — a razor-sharp satire of corporate America wrapped in one of the most propulsive plots in sci-fi.

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   New York 2140

   by Kim Stanley Robinson

   Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Caitlin Kelly, Michael Crouch, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Christopher Ryan Grant, Robert Blumenfeld

   ★ 3.70 ABR Score (15.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.6 Goodreads (15.8K) ★ 4.24 Audible (29)

   22h 35m listening time • Released 2020

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    The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

    Best American

    by John Joseph Adams

    Narrated by Diana Gabaldon, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jay Snyder, Scott Keiji Takeda, Sean Crisden, Polly Lee, Rebecca Lowman, Nicola Barber, Emily Woo Zeller, Bahni Turpin, Andre Blake, Andi Arndt, Priya Ayyar, Kim Mai Guest, Therese Plummer

    ★ 3.65 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)

    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (967) ★ 3.9 Audible (39)

    17h 45m listening time • Released 2020

    A stellar ensemble cast brings 17 hours of wildly varied SF/F to life—each narrator perfectly matched to their story, making this anthology feel less like a greatest-hits compilation and more like discovering your next favorite writer.

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