Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks Over 30 Hours

Sci-Fi audiobooks filtered to over 30 hours of listening time — ranked by Goodreads and Audible ratings.

Sci-fi audiobooks over 30 hours are rare and ambitious. These are the genre's biggest stories — multi-book epics, hard sci-fi sagas, and sprawling space operas that demand (and reward) your full attention. With runtimes this long, the narrator becomes a companion, and the world-building reaches a level of detail that shorter books simply can't match.

These are the highest-rated sci-fi audiobooks over 30 hours, ranked by reader and listener scores.

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    The Stand cover

    The Stand

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.35 Goodreads (841.4K)
    4.69 Audible (81.1K)
    47h 47m listening time • Released 2012

    King's apocalyptic magnum opus pits good against evil across a ravaged America — sprawling, terrifying, and peopled with characters you'll never forget.