Classic Science Fiction Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Sci-Fi Stories

Variable Man (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Philip K. Dick May 30, 2026 11161 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Author: Philip K. Dick Length: 3 hours 6 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 31:15 - Chapter 2 01:11:55 - Chapter 3 01:54:25 - Chapter 4 #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is fro

3 SF Stories by Jack Williamson (Full Audiobook) | Jack Williamson May 30, 2026 9512 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Three classic SF stories by Jack Williamson: The Cosmic Express, The Pygmy Planet and Salvage in Space. All were published in Astounding Stories in the very early 1930's. Author: Jack Williamson Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 29:29 - Chapter 2 01:35:14 - Chapter 3 #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLi

Salvage In Space (Full Audiobook) | Jack Williamson May 27, 2026 3862 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet' of debris, sees and captures a derelict space ship with a horrible monster aboard. Author: Jack Williamson Length: 1 hours 4 minutes Genre:

3 Science Fiction Stories (Full Audiobook) | William Tenn May 27, 2026 6373 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com These are three imaginative SF stories by an author I admire a lot, William Tenn. Venus is a Man's World, (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951), Project Hush (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1954_ and Of All Possible Worlds. Author: William Tenn Length: 1 hours 46 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 51:18 - Chapter 2 01:08:13 - Chapter 3 #F

Stolen Bacillus and other stories (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells May 27, 2026 17578 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A collection of 15 humorous short stories by the original master of speculative fiction: H. G. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 16:24 - Chapter 2 34:47 - Chapter 3 53:19 - Chapter 4 01:02:00 - Chapter 5 01:15:16 - Chapter 6 01:38:42 - Chapter 7 01:54:05 - Chapter 8 02:09:18 - Chapter 9 02:

Wolfbane (Full Audiobook) | C. M. Kornbluth May 21, 2026 14140 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This science fiction novel takes place in the year 2203, if we take literally the age of 250 years. A rogue planet, populated by strange machines known as Pyramids, has stolen the Earth from the Solar system, taking it off into interstellar space. Author: C. M. Kornbluth Length: 3 hours 55 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 11:55

Deathworld (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Harry Harrison May 21, 2026 23659 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A world that actively seeks to kill the colonists. Not a pleasant place. Author: Harry Harrison Length: 6 hours 34 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 11:04 - Chapter 2 27:27 - Chapter 3 39:44 - Chapter 4 57:29 - Chapter 5 01:14:02 - Chapter 6 01:34:09 - Chapter 7 01:42:31 - Chapter 8 01:52:22 - Chapter 9 02:18:04 - Chapter 10 02:

Year When Stardust Fell (Full Audiobook) | Raymond Fisher Jones May 19, 2026 23004 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The story of The Year When Stardust Fell is not a story of the distant future or of the remote past. It is not a story of a never-never land where fantastic happenings take place daily. Author: Raymond Fisher Jones Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 05:57 - Chapter 2 21:50 - Chapter 3 36:51 - Chapter 4 52:14 -

Masters of Space (Full Audiobook) | Edward Everett Evans May 17, 2026 20711 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. Author: Edward Everett Evans Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:06 - Chapter 2 39:23 - Chapter 3 01:31:30 - Chapter 4 01:50:07 - Chapter 5 02:19:54 - Chapter 6 02:40:36 - Chapter 7 03:09:01 - Chapter 8 03:35:41 - Chap

Mars is My Destination (Full Audiobook) | Frank Belknap Long May 17, 2026 24834 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com MARS. Earth's first colony in Space. Author: Frank Belknap Long Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 19:38 - Chapter 2 35:45 - Chapter 3 01:01:49 - Chapter 4 01:19:00 - Chapter 5 01:39:43 - Chapter 6 01:49:56 - Chapter 7 02:10:21 - Chapter 8 02:36:27 - Chapter 9 03:11:22 - Chapter 10 03:26:54 - Chapter 11 03:39:3

War of the Worlds (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells May 13, 2026 24920 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:0

Slave Planet (Full Audiobook) | Laurence M. Janifer May 13, 2026 16536 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Fruyling's World. rich in the metals that kept the Terran Confederation going-one vital link in a galaxy-wide civilization. Author: Laurence M. Janifer Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 10:22 - Chapter 2 27:56 - Chapter 3 39:31 - Chapter 4 55:27 - Chapter 5 01:03:22 - Chapter 6 01:15:36 - Chapter 7 01:31:54 -

Wandl the Invader (Full Audiobook) | Ray Cummings May 11, 2026 19105 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet--a maverick. Author: Ray Cummings Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Genre: Classic Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 14:15 -

Inside Earth (Full Audiobook) | Poul William Anderson May 10, 2026 7474 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers now extract heavy taxes, control industry and reproduction and interfere in every aspect of life. Author: Poul William Anderson Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 21:31 - Cha

Classic Sci-Fi Stories Vol. 18 (Full Audiobook) | Various May 9, 2026 7579 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Short Science Fiction Collection 018 Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected collection of short stories that entered the US public domain when their copy

Classic Sci-Fi Stories Vol. 7 (Full Audiobook) | Various May 9, 2026 14687 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Short Science Fiction Collection 007 Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science and technology. This is a reader-selected collection of short stories that entered the US public domain when their cop

Classic Sci-Fi Stories Vol. 53 (Full Audiobook) | Various May 9, 2026 29772 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Short Science Fiction Collection 053 Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author's creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. Author: Various Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Genre: Classic Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 53:16 - Chapter 2

Columbus of Space (Full Audiobook) | Garrett P. Serviss May 8, 2026 26689 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A classic science fiction adventure in the style of and dedicated to the readers of Jules Verne. An independent scientist discovers the secret of "inter-atomic energy", and with it builds a craft which carries himself and three friends to Venus, where they discover the dwellers of the dark side, incredible floating cities, and peril at every turn. Autho

Fire People (Full Audiobook) | Ray Cummings May 7, 2026 29288 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November--the new "stars" observed, the two meteors that had fallen with their red and green light-fire--were all evidence of the existence of intelligent life on the planet Mercury. (An excerpt from chapter 1. Author: Ray Cummings Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Genr

First Lensman (Full Audiobook) | E. E. Smith May 7, 2026 40314 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Secret Planet. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. Author: E. E. Smith Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Genre: Classic Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 26:55 - Chapter 2 54:36 - Chapter 3 01:36:49 - Chapter 4 02:11:47 - Chapter 5 02:42:10 - Chapter 6 03:17:46 - Chapter 7 03:59:34 - Chapter 8 04:34:50 - Chapter 9 05:13:55 -

Equation of Doom (Full Audiobook) | Gerald Vance May 7, 2026 6284 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrupulous giant frogs intent on kicking out all aliens; and finally beings who live outside of time. Mix them all together and some very interesting thin

Knights of Arthur (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Frederik Pohl May 7, 2026 7514 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people. total. Author: Frederik Pohl Length: 1 hours 44 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 15:13 - Chapter 2 36:49 - Chapter 3 46:54 - Chapter 4 01:03:48 - Chapter 5 01:24:41 - Chapter 6 01:45:34 - Chapter 7

Machine Stops (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | E. M. Forster May 6, 2026 5482 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction story by E. M. This is Machine Stops (Remastered) by E. M. Forster Author: E. M. Forster Length: 1 hours 31 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 32:39 - Chapter 2 01:02:24 - Chapter 3 Search keywords: public domain audiobook, full audiobook, classic audiobook, classic science fiction audiobo

Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Edgar Rice Burroughs May 6, 2026 18078 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The fourth book of the Barsoom series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars takes up the story of Thuvia, now Princess of Ptarth, and Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. Thuvia is betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol in an arranged marriage. This is Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Remastered) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs Length: 5 hours 1

Wandl the Invader (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Ray Cummings May 6, 2026 19977 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet-a maverick. This is Wandl the Invader (Remastered) by Ray Cummings. Author: Ray Cummings Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Genre: Scie

The Gods of Mars (Full Audiobook) | Edgar Rice Burroughs May 6, 2026 31303 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead. Luck restores his friends and even his son to him, and with them he escapes his imprisonment after unmasking (but not deposing) the cruel "g

Nightmare Planet (Full Audiobook) | Murray Leinster May 6, 2026 6478 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In science-fiction, as in all categories of fiction, there are stories that are so outstanding from the standpoint of characterization, concept, and background development that they remain popular for decades. Two such stories were Murray Leinster's The Mad Planet and Red Dust. This is Nightmare Planet by Murray Leinster. Author: Murray Leinster Length:

World Beyond (Full Audiobook) | Ray Cummings May 6, 2026 5489 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer). This is World Beyond by Ray Cummings. Author: Ray Cummings Length: 1 hours 31 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 — Chapter 1 16:55 — Chapter 2 45:02 — Chapter 3 01:02:40 — Chapter 4 01:14:53 —

Dark Moon (Full Audiobook) | Charles W. Diffin May 5, 2026 12424 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures. (Summary by Charles Diffin). This is Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin. Author: Charles Willard Diffin Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 27:36 - Chapter 2 56:58 - Chapter 3 01:19:07 -

Gladiator (Full Audiobook) | Philip Wylie May 5, 2026 28363 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Gladiator by Philip Wylie is the story of a man who although normal in all other ways, through the genius of his Father a biologist attains the strength and impregnability of a superman. The problems he encounters in trying to fit into a society of normal human beings who show fear and hatred whenever they view his abnormal strength and physical ability

The Blazing World (Full Audiobook) | Margaret Cavendish May 5, 2026 14571 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a defiant venture into a scientific world where women were not usually allowed. It tells the tale of a young Lady who is kidnapped by a man that tries to sail away with her. This is Blazing World by Margaret Lucas Cav

Before Adam (Full Audiobook) - Classic Science Fiction | Jack London May 4, 2026 13794 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. This is Before Adam by Jack London - a classic science fiction story. Author: Jack London Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Genre: Science Fiction, Published 1900 onward Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 37:21 - Chapter 2 0

Misplaced Battleship (Full Audiobook) - Classic Space Exploration Sci-Fi | Harry Harrison May 3, 2026 4301 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship. but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. This is Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison - a classic space exploration story. Author: Harry Harrison Length: 1 hours 11 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 16:41 - Chapter 2 38:45 -

Empire (Full Audiobook) — Classic Planetary Science Fiction | Clifford D. Simak May 2, 2026 17844 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control to dominate the planets. Unknown to them, a couple of maverick scientists accidentally develop a completely new form of energy supply and threaten the corporation's monopoly. This is Empire by Clifford D. Simak — a

In the Days of the Comet (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Visionary Science Fiction Story | H. G. Wells May 2, 2026 35436 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com William ("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class to the working class. This is In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells — a classic visionary science fiction story. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Genre: Science Fiction 🎧 This audiobook recording is from Libr

Modern Utopia (Full Audiobook) — A Visionary Science Fiction Classic | H. G. Wells May 1, 2026 36693 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com H. G. This is Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells — a classic visionary science fiction story. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Genre: General Fiction, *Non-fiction, Political Science 🎧 This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Text and narration are public domain. Narration provided by Libr

The Garden Behind the Moon (Full Audiobook) — A Forgotten Lunar Science Fiction Story | Howard Pyle May 1, 2026 11788 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children in the garden. While he is allowed to play in this beautiful place for awhile, he at last finds out that he has been brought there to reveal his true mission, which is to find the Wonder-Box and the Know-All Book th

The Skylark of Space (Full Audiobook) — The Classic Sci-Fi Story That Started Space Warfare | Lee Hawkins Garby Apr 30, 2026 33761 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C. This is Skylark of Space by Lee Hawkins Garby — a classic alien encounter story. Author: Lee Hawkins Garby Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Genre: Science Fiction 🎧 This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Text

Knights of Arthur (Full Audiobook) — When Arthurian Legend Meets Science Fiction | Frederik Pohl Apr 30, 2026 5499 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Sailors Sam Dunlap and Arthur check in to a New York hotel to await their mate Vern Engdahl when a girl shows up proposing to purchase Arthur. They need guys like Arthur to help run the city, and the fact that he fits in a small suitcase is even better. This is Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl — a classic cosmic science fiction story. Author: Frederik

Planet Savers (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Planetary Science Fiction Story | Marion Zimmer Bradley Apr 30, 2026 11432 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Terran colony on the planet Darkover faces imminent destruction by a plague of the deadly Trailmen's Fever. The only hope is to develop a serum in time, but this requires the cooperation of the elusive native Trailmen, the brilliant parasitologist Dr. This is Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley — a classic planetary science fiction story. Author:

Greylorn (version 2) (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Planetary Science Fiction Story | Keith Laumer Apr 29, 2026 7826 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Earth is threatened with destruction by a deadly alien plague. The planet’s only hope: Get help from the long-lost Omega Colony, somewhere in space. This is Greylorn (version 2) by Keith Laumer — a classic planetary science fiction story. Author: Keith Laumer Length: 2 hours 10 minutes Genre: Science Fiction 🎧 This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.o

Creature from Beyond Infinity (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Planetary Science Fiction Story | Henry Kuttner Apr 29, 2026 19871 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A lone space traveler arrives on Earth seeking a new planet to colonize, his own world dead. At the same time a mysterious plague has infected Earth that will wipe out all life. This is Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner — a classic planetary science fiction story. Author: Henry Kuttner Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Genre: Science Fiction 🎧 Thi

Machine Stops (version 2) (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Public Domain Sci-Fi Story | E. M. Forster Apr 29, 2026 4704 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off f

Uller Uprising (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Alien Encounter Story | H. Beam Piper Apr 29, 2026 18458 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>Uller Uprising</i> is the story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny (a Bengal uprising in British-held India brought about when rumors were spread to n

Voodoo Planet (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Planetary Science Fiction Story | Andre Norton Apr 29, 2026 9978 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit to the safari planet of Khatka, where they find themselves caught in a battle between the forces of reason and the powers of Khatka's mind-controlling wizard

Anthem (Full Audiobook) — A Classic Public Domain Sci-Fi Story | Ayn Rand Apr 29, 2026 7919 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>Anthem</i> is a dystopic science fiction story taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. This is Anthem by Ayn Rand — a classic public domain sci-fi story. Author: Ayn Rand Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Genre: Scienc

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