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Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction
Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction
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.
Episodes
🟡 Lord of the World (Full Audiobook) | Robert Hugh Benson - Part 2 of 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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