Free Science Fiction Audiobooks – H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and the Classics of Sci-Fi

Wells's 1895 novella about a traveller who reaches the year 802,701. Short, strange and the root of every time-travel story since.

Martian cylinders land in the English countryside. The 1898 alien-invasion story, told by a man trying to survive it.

A shipwrecked man lands on an island where a scientist is experimenting on animals. Dark and still unsettling.

A stranger wrapped in bandages arrives at a village inn in winter. Wells's study of power without consequences.

Professor Aronnax is taken aboard Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, for a voyage around the world's oceans (1870).

Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a South American plateau where prehistoric life survives.

Civil War veteran John Carter wakes up on Mars. The pulp adventure that launched the planetary romance.

A mathematician's diary from the glass-walled One State. Written in 1920–21, it anticipated Brave New World and 1984.

The 1920 Czech play about a factory of artificial workers that gave the world the word 'robot'.

A square in a two-dimensional world learns about a third dimension. A short, witty book about geometry and Victorian society.

Three American explorers find a hidden country populated only by women. A 1915 utopia with a sharp sense of humour.

A manuscript found at sea tells of a lost civilisation near the South Pole with upside-down values.

A 1920 dystopia set in a vast underground Berlin, where a ruling class controls a sealed-off society.

Published in 1638, this tale of a Spaniard carried to the Moon by trained geese is one of the earliest works of space fiction in English.

An anthology of short stories, good for sampling different writers and styles in one sitting.