# Audie Award for Science Fiction

The Audie Award for Science Fiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a science-fiction audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2003.

## Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2003 8th | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002) | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | Scott Brick | Books on Tape | Winner |
| 2003 8th | Catch the Lightning (1998) | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | The Fifth Sorceress (2002) | Robert Newcomb | John Lee | Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | The Pillars of Creation (2001) | Terry Goodkind | Jim Bond | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2003 8th | Thief of Time (2001) | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | Ulverscroft Large Print | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Monstrous Regiment (2003) | Terry Pratchett | Stephen Briggs | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2004 9th | Darwin's Children (2003) | Greg Bear | Scott Brick | Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003) | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | Scott Brick | Audio Renaissance | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | Still Life with Crows (2003) | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2004 9th | The Callahan Chronicles (1988) | Spider Robinson | Barrett Whitener | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Lost Boys (1992) | Orson Scott Card | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2005 10th | Brimstone (2004) | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois | Time Warner AudioBooks | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Consciousness Plague (2002) | Paul Levinson | Mark Shanahan | Listen & Live Audio | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | Horizon Storms (2004) | Kevin J. Anderson | George Guidall | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2005 10th | The Quantum Rose (2000) | Catherine Asaro | Anna Fields | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Market Forces (2004) | Richard K. Morgan | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio | Winner |
| 2006 11th | Dragonsblood (2005) | Todd McCaffrey | Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | Shadow of the Giant (2005) | Orson Scott Card | David Birney, Scott Brick, and full cast | Audio Renaissance | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Rolling Stones (1952) | Robert A. Heinlein | David Baker | Full Cast Audio | Finalist |
| 2006 11th | The Vor Game (1990) | Lois McMaster Bujold | Grover Gardner | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Stolen Child (2006) | Keith Donohue | Andy Paris and Jeff Woodman | Recorded Books | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Callahan's Legacy (1996) | Spider Robinson | Spider Robinson | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Street Magic (2001) | Tamora Pierce | Bruce Coville and full cast | Full Cast Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956) | Richard Matheson | Yuri Rasovsky | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Voyagers (1981) | Ben Bova | Stefan Rudnicki | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Dune (1965) | Frank Herbert | Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, and Ilyana Kadushin | Audible | Winner |
| 2008 13th | The Draco Tavern (2006) | Larry Niven | Tom Weiner | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955) | Jack Finney | Kristoffer Tabori | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Ravens of Avalon (2007) | Diana L. Paxson | Lorna Raver | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Selections from Dreamsongs 1 (2003) | George R. R. Martin | Claudia Black, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick, Roy Dotrice, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, and Adrian Paul | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Calculating God (2000) | Robert J. Sawyer | Jonathan Davis and Robert J. Sawyer | Audible | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Childhood's End (1954) | Arthur C. Clarke | Erich Michael Summerer | Audible | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Ghost Radio (2008) | Leopoldo Gout | Pedro Pascal | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Skybreaker (2005) | Kenneth Oppel | David Kelly | Full Cast Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Sunrise Alley (2004) | Catherine Asaro | Hillary Huber | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Bellwether (1996) | Connie Willis | Kate Reading | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | The Gathering Storm (2009) | Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson | Kate Reading and Michael Kramer | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Kushiel's Dart (2001) | Jacqueline Carey | Anne Flosnik | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Kushiel's Scion (2006) Jacqueline Carey | Jacqueline Carey | Simon Vance | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Podkayne of Mars (1963) | Robert A. Heinlein | Emily Janice Card | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Jitters (2010) | Adele Parks | Adele Park, Susan Paige Lane, and full cast | Straight to Audio Productions | Winner |
| 2011 16th | Great Classic Science Fiction (1911–1962) | H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, et al. | Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, et al. | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Room (2010) | Emma Donoghue | Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Shadow Effect (2009) | Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, and Marianne Williamson | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) | Oscar Wilde | Emily Bergl, Charles Busch, Neil Dickson, Jill Gascoine, James Marsters, Christopher Neame, and Matthew Wolf | L.A. Theatre Works | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Stainless Steel Rat (1961) | Harry Harrison | Phil Gigante | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Watch (2010) | Robert J. Sawyer | Jessica Almasy, Marc Vietor, Oliver Wyman, Jennifer Van Dyck, and Robert J. Sawyer | Audible | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Day of the Triffids (1951) | John Wyndham | Graeme Malcolm | Audible | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Black Magic Sanction (2010) | Kim Harrison | Marguerite Gavin | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Feed (2010) | Mira Grant | Paula Christensen and Jesse Bernstein | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Halo: Evolutions (2009) | Tobias Buckell, Jonathan Goff, et al. | Steve Downes, Holter Graham, Frank O'Connor, and Jen Taylor | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Age of Miracles (2012) | Karen Thompson Walker | Emily Rankin | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2013 18th | 14 (2013) | Peter Clines | Ray Porter | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess (2012) | Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio | Angela Dawe | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Invincible (2012) | Jack Campbell | Christian Rummel | Audible | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Pure (2012) | Julianna Baggott | Julianna Baggott, Khristine Hvam, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collins, and Casey Holloway | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012) | Lois McMaster Bujold | Grover Gardner | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2014 19th | Extinction Machine (2013) | Jonathan Maberry | Ray Porter | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | MaddAddam (2013) | Margaret Atwood | Bernadette Dunn, Bob Walter, and Robbie Daymond | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Martian (2011) | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray | Podium Publishing | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Protector (2013) | C. J. Cherryh | Daniel Thomas May | Audible | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Shaman (2013) | Kim Stanley Robinson | Graeme Malcolm | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Martian (revised) (2011) | Andy Weir | R. C. Bray | Podium Publishing | Winner |
| 2015 20th | The Beam: Season 1 (2014) | Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant | Johnny Heller, Tara Sands, and full cast | Podium Publishing | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Dark Eden (2012) | Chris Beckett | Matthew Frow, Jayne Entwistle, and full cast | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) | Claire North | Peter Kenny | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Lock In (2014) | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, and full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Jurassic Park (1990) | Michael Crichton | Scott Brick | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | Ancillary Mercy (2015) | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Aurora (2015) | Kim Stanley Robinson | Ali Ahn | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Golden Son (2015) | Pierce Brown | Tim Gerard Reynolds | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (2015) | Tom Angleberger | Marc Thompson | Listening Library/Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) | Alan Dean Foster | Marc Thompson | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (2014) | Meg Elison | Angela Dawe | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Crosstalk (2016) | Connie Willis | Mia Barron | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Dispatcher (2016) | John Scalzi | Zachary Quinto | Audible | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Sleeping Giants (2016) | Sylvain Neuvel | Andy Secombe, Eric Meyers, and full cast | Penguin Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Provenance (2017) | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (2017) | Christie Golden | Janina Gavankar | Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | New York 2140 (2017) | Kim Stanley Robinson | Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, and full cast | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Stone Sky (2017) | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The X Files: Cold Cases (2017) | Joe Harris, Chris Carter, and Dirk Maggs | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and full cast | Audible | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase (2004) | Douglas Adams | Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and full cast | BBC Audiobooks America | Winner |
| 2019 24th | Artemis (2017) | Andy Weir | Rosario Dawson | Audible | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Black Star Renegades (2018) | Michael Moreci | Dan Bittner | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Head On (2018) | John Scalzi | Wil Wheaton | Audible | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Planetside (2018) | Michael Mammay | R. C. Bray | HarperAudio | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | Emergency Skin (2019) | N. K. Jemisin | Jason Isaacs | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | Hollow Kingdom (2019) | Kira Jane Buxton | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Last Astronaut (2019) | David Wellington | Megan Tusing | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | The Lesson (2019) | Cadwell Turnbull | Ron Butler and Janina Edwards | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Permafrost (2019) | Alastair Reynolds | Natasha Soudek | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Deep (2019) | Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutston, and Jonathan Snipes | Daveed Diggs | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2021 26th | Aliens: Phalanx (2020) | Scott Sigler | Bronson Pinchot | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Axiom's End (2020) | Lindsay Ellis | Stephanie Willis and Abigail Thorn | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Heaven's River (2020) | Dennis E. Taylor | Ray Porter | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Ruins of the Galaxy (2018) | J. N. Chaney and Christopher Hopper | R. C. Bray | Podium Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising (2020) | Timothy Zahn | Marc Thompson | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Project Hail Mary (2021) | Andy Weir | Ray Porter | Audible Studios | Winner |
| 2022 27th | Day Zero (2021) | C. Robert Cargill | Vikas Adam | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Orphan Wars | Scott Moon and J.N. Chaney | Luke Daniels | Podium Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Pastel Pink | Nikki Minty | Khristine Hvam, James Patrick Cronin, and Jodie Harris | Nikki Minty | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Ready Player Two (2020) | Ernest Cline | Wil Wheaton | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc. | Ash Bishop | Scott Brick and Suzanne Elise Freeman | CamCat Books | Winner |
| 2023 28th | How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu | Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure, and Jason Culp | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | No Kindness Too Soon | Sylvain Neuvel | Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, Gabriel Vaughan, Kathy Searle, Imani Jade Powers, Nicolette Chin, Gopal Divan, and Garrett Michael Brown | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | NOOR | Nnedi Okorafor | Délé Ogundiran | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | YMIR | Rich Larson | Alan Medcroft | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Cassandra in Reverse | Holly Smale | Kristin Atherton | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2024 29th | The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin | Robin Miles | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | The Deep Sky | Yume Kitasei | Skaer Sarah | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Dual Memory | Sue Burke | Santana André | Dreamscape Media | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Wool | Hugh Howey | Ballerini Edoardo | Blackstone Publishing | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Book of Doors | Gareth Brown | Miranda Raison | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2025 30th | Frontier | Grace Curtis | Aven Shore | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Lake of Souls | Ann Leckie | Adjoa Andoh | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Mal Goes to War | Edward Ashton | John Pirhalla and Katharine Chin | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | System Collapse | Martha Wells | Kevin R. Free | Recorded Books, Inc. | Finalist |