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Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction

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Classic Dystopian Audiobooks offers a curated collection of public domain dystopian and speculative fiction, featuring apocalyptic worlds, totalitarian societies, and survival stories. The archive includes works about collapsing civilizations, technological control, and psychological endurance, aimed at fans of immersive long-form listening. New recordings and restored editions are added regularly, with support available via Patreon.

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🟡 Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Full Audiobook) | Jane C. Loudon - Part 5 of 5 Oct 13, 2026 13043 Part 5 of 5.\n\nThe Mummy. : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future.Author: Jane C. LoudonLength: 18 hours 6 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:37 - Chapter 222:46 - Chapter 301:00:30 - Chapter 401:22:16 - Chapter 501:45:19 - Chapter 602:06:59 - Chapter 702:31:24 - Chapter 803:06:06 - Chapter 903:38:00 - Chap

🟡 Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Full Audiobook) | Jane C. Loudon - Part 4 of 5 Oct 13, 2026 13043 Part 4 of 5.\n\nThe Mummy. : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future.Author: Jane C. LoudonLength: 18 hours 6 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:37 - Chapter 222:46 - Chapter 301:00:30 - Chapter 401:22:16 - Chapter 501:45:19 - Chapter 602:06:59 - Chapter 702:31:24 - Chapter 803:06:06 - Chapter 903:38:00 - Chap

🟡 Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Full Audiobook) | Jane C. Loudon - Part 3 of 5 Oct 13, 2026 13043 Part 3 of 5.\n\nThe Mummy. : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future.Author: Jane C. LoudonLength: 18 hours 6 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:37 - Chapter 222:46 - Chapter 301:00:30 - Chapter 401:22:16 - Chapter 501:45:19 - Chapter 602:06:59 - Chapter 702:31:24 - Chapter 803:06:06 - Chapter 903:38:00 - Chap

🟡 Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Full Audiobook) | Jane C. Loudon - Part 2 of 5 Oct 13, 2026 13043 Part 2 of 5.\n\nThe Mummy. : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future.Author: Jane C. LoudonLength: 18 hours 6 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:37 - Chapter 222:46 - Chapter 301:00:30 - Chapter 401:22:16 - Chapter 501:45:19 - Chapter 602:06:59 - Chapter 702:31:24 - Chapter 803:06:06 - Chapter 903:38:00 - Chap

🟡 Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Full Audiobook) | Jane C. Loudon - Part 1 of 5 Oct 13, 2026 13043 Part 1 of 5.\n\nThe Mummy. : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future.Author: Jane C. LoudonLength: 18 hours 6 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 107:37 - Chapter 222:46 - Chapter 301:00:30 - Chapter 401:22:16 - Chapter 501:45:19 - Chapter 602:06:59 - Chapter 702:31:24 - Chapter 803:06:06 - Chapter 903:38:00 - Chap

🟡 Second Variety (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Philip K. Dick Oct 9, 2026 6905 First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place-nasty, crawling little death-robots.Author: Philip K. DickLength: 1 hours 55 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 131:50 - Chapter 201:01:52 - Chapter 301:30:05 - Chapter 4#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook rec

🟡 Highest Treason (Full Audiobook) | Randall Garrett Oct 7, 2026 9047 Set in a future in which humanity's dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, humanity has straight-jacketed itself into the only social system which could make this possible. Class differentiation is entirely horizontal rather than vertical and no matter what one's chosen field, all advancement is based solely on seniority rather than a

🟡 Anthem (Full Audiobook) | Ayn Rand Oct 5, 2026 7920 <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.Author: Ayn RandLength: 2 hours 11 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 132:15 - Chapter 252:15 - Chapter 357:05 - Chapter 401:00:57 - Chapter 501:06:11

🟡 Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future (Full Audiobook) | Cicely Hamilton Oct 2, 2026 23758 Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future is an early work of dystopian science fiction.Author: Cicely HamiltonLength: 6 hours 35 minutesGenre: Science Fiction, War & Military Fiction, Fantasy FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 118:01 - Chapter 234:31 - Chapter 356:29 - Chapter 401:05:54 - Chapter 501:36:07 - Chapter 602:00:30 - Chapter 702:19:14 - Chapter 802:34:27 - Chapter 902:45:33 -

🟡 We (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Yevgeny Zamyatin Sep 30, 2026 24808 So subversive, the Soviet Union banned it. D-503 is a single note in the harmonious choir of the United State, a totalitarian nation ruled by mathematical perfection and order.Author: Yevgeny ZamyatinLength: 6 hours 53 minutesGenre: Fantastic Fiction, Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 110:00 - Chapter 231:14 - Chapter 355:52 - Chapter 401:26:15 - Chapter 501:51:36 - Chapter 602:10:32 - Chapt

🟡 Moving the Mountain (Full Audiobook) | Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sep 28, 2026 18026 Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911.Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanLength: 5 hours 0 minutesGenre: Culture & Heritage FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 123:25 - Chapter 246:43 - Chapter 301:08:39 - Chapter 401:35:18 - Chapter 502:04:09 - Ch

🟡 Night of the Long Knives (Full Audiobook) | Fritz Leiber Sep 23, 2026 12025 "I was one hundred miles from Nowhere-and I mean that literally-when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me.Author: Fritz LeiberLength: 3 hours 20 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 132:17 - Chapter 201:00:01 - Chapter 301

🟡 Lord of the World (Full Audiobook) | Robert Hugh Benson - Part 2 of 2 Sep 21, 2026 19061 Part 2 of 2.\n\n"Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.Author: Robert Hugh BensonLength: 10 hours 35 minutesGenre: Religious Fiction, Science FictionChapters:00:00 -

🟡 Lord of the World (Full Audiobook) | Robert Hugh Benson - Part 1 of 2 Sep 21, 2026 19061 Part 1 of 2.\n\n"Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.Author: Robert Hugh BensonLength: 10 hours 35 minutesGenre: Religious Fiction, Science FictionChapters:00:00 -

🟡 Oomphel in the Sky (Full Audiobook) | H. Beam Piper Sep 18, 2026 7068 Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily bringing about their own demise. The planetary government can't overcome its own bureaucracy to help them, and the military is overwhelmed.Author: H. Beam PiperLength: 1 hours 57 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 135:40 - Chapter 201:13:12

🟡 Begum's Fortune (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne Sep 16, 2026 22909 A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of an Indian prince.Author: Jules VerneLength: 6 hours 21 minutesGenre: Science Fiction, War & Military Fiction, Published 1800 -1900Chapters:00:00 - Chapter 123:30 - Chapter 249:40 - Chapter 301:14:37 - Ch

🟡 Slaves to the Metal Horde (Full Audiobook) | Stephen Marlowe Sep 14, 2026 10253 Johnny Hope knew the robot armies had been created to serve Man. But war and a plague had destroyed civilization, leaving humans as - slaves to the metal horde.Author: Stephen MarloweLength: 2 hours 50 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 111:19 - Chapter 233:02 - Chapter 301:00:43 - Chapter 401:19:25 - Chapter 501:40:58 - Chapter 602:08:14 - Chapter 702:23:12 - Chapter 8#FullAudi

🟡 Anthem (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Ayn Rand Sep 11, 2026 6685 Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics.Author: Ayn RandLength: 1 hours 51 minutesGenre: Fantasy FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 127:51 - Chapter 245:50 - Chap

🟡 Creatures of the Abyss (Full Audiobook) | Murray Leinster Sep 9, 2026 20174 Orejas de ellos, "the things that listen", whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam.Author: Murray LeinsterLength: 5 hours 36 minutesGenre: General FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 137:33 - Chapter 201:14:47 - Chapter 301:49:57 - Chapter 402:

🟡 Explanation of the Apocalypse (Full Audiobook) | The Venerable Bede Sep 7, 2026 15285 The Explanation of the Apocalypse by Ven. Beda is the earliest of the many works of our own writers on that Book, and, as such, may well deserve to appear in a form accessible to English readers.Author: The Venerable BedeLength: 4 hours 14 minutesGenre: Christianity - CommentaryChapters:00:00 - Chapter 112:55 - Chapter 224:00 - Chapter 334:20 - Chapter 442:21 - Chapter 550:09 - Chapter 655:24 - Ch

🟡 War of the Worlds (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells Sep 4, 2026 23361 An original masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet. After the novel's hero finds himself trapped in what is left of London, despairing at the destruction of human civilization, he discovers that life on Ea

🟡 War of the Worlds (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells Sep 2, 2026 21236 The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G.Author: H. G. WellsLength: 5 hours 53 minutesGenre: Fantastic Fiction, Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 115:06 - Chapter 223:52 - Chapter 330:34 - Chapter 438:13 - Chapter 548:13 - Chapter 654:01 - Chapter 701:02:18 - Chapter 801:08:27 - Chapter 901:20:28 - Chapter 1001:34:01 - Chapter 1101:46:09 - Chapter 1202:08:23 -

🟡 Badge of Infamy (Full Audiobook) | Lester del Rey Sep 1, 2026 11928 Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules.Author: Lester del ReyLength: 3 hours 18 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 114:54 - Chapter 227:13 - Chapter 338:29 - Chapter 451:48 - Chapter 501:06:50 - Chapter 601:23:26 - Chapter 701:35:01 - Chapter 801:49:16 - Chapter 902:00:06 - Chapter 1002:11:50 - Chapter

🟡 Coming Race (Full Audiobook) | Edward Bulwer-Lytton Aug 4, 2026 24954 Listen to Coming Race, a complete classic dystopian audiobook by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, exploring collapse, survival, authoritarian power, social control, or a transformed future.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great un

🟡 Erewhon (Full Audiobook) | Samuel Butler Aug 4, 2026 28820 Listen to Erewhon, a complete classic dystopian audiobook by Samuel Butler, exploring collapse, survival, authoritarian power, social control, or a transformed future.Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Ere

🟡 Moon Metal (Full Audiobook) | Garrett P. Serviss Aug 3, 2026 9483 Listen to Moon Metal, a complete classic dystopian audiobook by Garrett P. Serviss, exploring collapse, survival, authoritarian power, social control, or a transformed future.Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader.

🟡 Last Man (Full Audiobook) | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Part 2 of 2) Aug 3, 2026 26553 Part 2 of 2 of this complete audiobook.Listen to Last Man, a complete classic dystopian audiobook by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, exploring collapse, survival, authoritarian power, social control, or a transformed future.The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a pla

🟡 Last Man (Full Audiobook) | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Part 1 of 2) Aug 3, 2026 35101 Part 1 of 2 of this complete audiobook.Listen to Last Man, a complete classic dystopian audiobook by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, exploring collapse, survival, authoritarian power, social control, or a transformed future.The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a pla

🟡 Hamlet (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | William Shakespeare Jul 26, 2026 14873 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Princ

🟡 Lysistrata (Full Audiobook) | Aristophanes Jul 8, 2026 4675 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c. Author: Aristophanes Length: 1 hours 17 minutes Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Comedy Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 50:10 - Chapter 2 #FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from Libri

🟡 Time Machine (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells Jul 7, 2026 13649 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 21:30 - Chapter 2 35:29 - Chapter 3 50:55 - Chapter 4 01:18:45 - Chapter 5 02:01:44 - Chapter 6 02:16:10 - Chapter 7 02:34:30 - Chapter 8 02:52:47 - Chapter 9 03:10:16 - Chapter 10 03:17:59 - Chapter 11

🟡 Antigone (Full Audiobook) | Sophocles Jul 3, 2026 4468 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother's body and is sentenced to death. Author: Sophocles Length: 1 hours 14 minutes Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Tragedy Chapters: 00:00 - Chap

🟡 Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells May 23, 2026 22605 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Two stuffy English scientists, always looking to further their scientific knowledge, create a substance called Herakleophorbia, which in its fourth incarnation - known as Herakleophorbia IV - has the special ability of making things increase greatly in size. As the scientists begin experimentation on some chicks, the substance is misused by some "countr

🟡 Round the Moon (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne May 23, 2026 21792 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It. Author: Jules Verne Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Genre: Science Fiction

🟡 Time Machine (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells May 19, 2026 14977 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 19:32 - Chapter 2 43:54 - Chapter 3 58:55 - Chapter 4 01:15:58 - Chapter 5 01:47:44 - Chapter 6 02:27:38 - Chapter 7 02:40:34 - Chapter 8 02:56:05 - Chapter 9 03:13:11 - Chapter 10 03:34:25 - Chapter 11 03:42:04 - Chapter

🟡 War of the Worlds (Full Audiobook) | H. G. Wells May 16, 2026 24213 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com H. G. Author: H. G. Wells Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Genre: Science Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 13:52 - Chapter 2 22:13 - Chapter 3 29:04 - Chapter 4 35:23 - Chapter 5 45:45 - Chapter 6 52:21 - Chapter 7 01:02:30 - Chapter 8 01:09:30 - Chapter 9 01:22:56 - Chapter 10 01:36:42 - Chapter 11 01:53:57 - Chapter 12 02:17:37 - Chapter 13 02:28:27 - Ch

Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction

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