Ender's Game
Featured Article: 20 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks for Exploring New Worlds
There is no genre that lends itself better to audio narrative than Science Fiction does. There is a magic that transports listeners to new worlds of wonder and mystery that is heightened by expert voice actors and narrators. A great writer can create an imaginative new world or dystopian civilisation, but it is up to the narrator to bring this world to life around you. We’ve gathered together 20 of the top science fiction audiobooks ranked not only for their stories but for the emotive and compelling narrative performances. Let these award winning tales and voices carry you away to worlds unknown.
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Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall165
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Performance137
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Story138
Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the...
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a let down compared to speaker for the dead.
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-11-13
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Xenocide
- Volume Three of the Ender Saga
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 13, The Ender Saga, Book 3
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2003-12-28
- Language: English
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Earth Awakens
- Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance63
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Story64
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens. Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a...
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Great audiobook with some minor annoyances
- By Willem Buitendyk on 2021-06-07
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Earth Awakens
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 3, The First Formic War, Book 3
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2014-06-10
- Language: English
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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Full Cast Recording
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall319
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Performance278
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Story275
Experience Ender’s Game as you’ve never heard it before! With an all-new, original script written by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game Alive is a full-cast audio drama that reimagines the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic....
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Great story but is better with narration.
- By Neaera on 2017-12-22
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Ender's Game Alive: The Full Cast Audioplay
- Narrated by: Full Cast Recording
- Series: The Ender Saga, Book 1, The Enderverse, Book 6
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
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Ender's Shadow
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance158
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Story158
The novel that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series—available for the first time on audio The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the...
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Could listen to it over and over
- By Dustin and shanelle on 2025-07-07
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Ender's Shadow
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 7, Ender's Shadow, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2005-08-12
- Language: English
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Earth Unaware
- Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance71
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Story69
A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies. The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of...
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I want aliens and spaceships not teen angst.
- By Anonymous on 2022-04-23
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Earth Unaware
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The First Formic War, Book 1, The Enderverse, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-17
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Hegemon
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance96
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Story96
Ender's Game told the story of the boy "Ender" Wiggin and his hard-won victory over an alien race that would have destroyed the Earth and all of humanity. But Ender was not the only child in the Battle School. He was just the best of the best. In Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card told the story...
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Decent Story, rough recording
- By Anglo in Quebec on 2019-07-27
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Shadow of the Hegemon
- Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 8, Ender's Shadow, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2002-11-11
- Language: English
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Shadow Puppets
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance64
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Story63
Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth and The Shadow Series. Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has...
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Great performances.
- By Anonymous on 2024-09-06
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Shadow Puppets
- Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: Ender's Shadow, Book 3, The Enderverse, Book 9
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2002-09-27
- Language: English
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La stratégie Ender
- Le Cycle d'Ender 1
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Éric Chantelauze
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance33
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Story33
Andrew Wiggin, dit Ender, n'est pas un garçon comme les autres. Depuis sa naissance, ses faits et gestes sont observés par l'intermédiaire d'un...
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Tres apprécié!! je conseille
- By Dany on 2020-11-19
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La stratégie Ender
- Le Cycle d'Ender 1
- Narrated by: Éric Chantelauze
- Series: Le Cycle d'Ender, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-28
- Language: French
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Children of the Mind
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance104
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Story105
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest...
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Great story but mediocre narration
- By Aleef on 2024-10-18
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Children of the Mind
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 14, The Ender Saga, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2004-09-01
- Language: English
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Earth Afire
- Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance63
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Story63
One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that...
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how do you make an alian invasion boring?
- By zac anderson on 2024-05-01
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Earth Afire
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 2, The First Formic War, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-04
- Language: English
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The Gate Thief
- Mithermages, Book 2
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance15
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Story15
Best-selling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the mages of Westil, who live in exile on Earth....
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Card hates women
- By Morgan on 2020-09-28
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The Gate Thief
- Mithermages, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Rankin
- Series: Mithermages, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2013-03-19
- Language: English
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Treason
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2009-09-23
- Language: English
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Speaker for the Dead
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall301
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Performance260
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Story259
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. But again the aliens'...
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More philosophy than story
- By Tom Mcboatface on 2025-08-23
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Speaker for the Dead
- Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 12, The Ender Saga, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2002-10-18
- Language: English
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Duplex
- A Micropowers Novel
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad turning their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness....
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Duplex
- A Micropowers Novel
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-07
- Language: English
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The Swarm
- The Second Formic War (Volume 1)
- Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance62
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Story62
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army...
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If you liked the first Trilogy, this is for you
- By Michael R Wood on 2020-10-29
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The Swarm
- The Second Formic War (Volume 1)
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Paul Boehmer
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 4, The Second Formic War Series, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2016-08-02
- Language: English
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Ender's Game
- Special 20th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall440
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Performance348
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Story350
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother...
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Probably a great story. But...
- By Ben & Maggie McGrath on 2018-03-12
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Ender's Game
- Special 20th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 6, The Ender Saga, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2002-01-01
- Language: English
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The Last Shadow
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance31
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Story31
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of...
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Terribly disappointing story, great performances
- By T. Mackey on 2021-12-02
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The Last Shadow
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki
- Series: The Enderverse, Book 16, The Ender Saga, Book 19
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-16
- Language: English
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Invasive Procedures
- Written by: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane....
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👍🏼👍🏼
- By Charleigh on 2023-09-14
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Invasive Procedures
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2007-10-18
- Language: English
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Pathfinder
- Pathfinder, Book 1
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance46
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Story45
Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts....
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Not for me
- By Alain Desroches on 2020-11-11
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Pathfinder
- Pathfinder, Book 1
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Don Leslie, Kristoffer Tabori, Scott Brick
- Series: Pathfinder, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-23
- Language: English
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Seventh Son
- Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 1
- Written by: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance43
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Story43
Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with power, but he must learn to use his gift wisely....
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characters you fall in love with
- By Michelle Bruneski on 2024-06-30
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Seventh Son
- Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye
- Series: Alvin Maker, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2007-04-02
- Language: English
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