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The Director Should've Shot You
Featured Article: The best audiobooks about aliens for curious humans
Throughout the history of storytelling, we humans have been curious about the possibility of worlds beyond Earth and its inhabitants. Thanks to our endless fascination with extraterrestrial life, there is a mountain of literature, from novels to memoirs, exploring the potential outcomes of interacting with creatures from other planets. Without further ado, here are 20 of our favorite listens about alien life.
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Alien: Covenant Origins
- The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani....
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Great narrator, lackluster writing
- By Tobie on 06-28-18
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Alien: Covenant Origins
- The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Series: Alien™: The Novelizations, Book 0.5, Alien, Book 0
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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Alien: Covenant
- A Novel
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise....
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Great story marred by recording gaps
- By Jazzi on 06-18-17
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Alien: Covenant
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Series: Alien, Book 1, Alien™: The Novelizations, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-23-17
- Language: English
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Alien
- The Official Movie Novelization
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Peter Guinness
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers....
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If you enjoyed the movie, you will enjoy this book
- By Midwestbonsai on 04-18-16
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Alien
- The Official Movie Novelization
- Narrated by: Peter Guinness
- Series: Alien™: The Novelizations, Book 2, Alien, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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The Director Should've Shot You
- Memoirs of the Film Trade
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs
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In The Director Should've Shot You, Foster shares all the colorful stories behind his adaptations of films, TV shows, and video games.
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The Director Should've Shot You
- Memoirs of the Film Trade
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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Spellsinger
- Spellsinger Adventures Series, Book 1
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed....
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A classic from my teenage years
- By cody on 01-31-22
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Spellsinger
- Spellsinger Adventures Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Series: The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-07-21
- Language: English
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Aliens
- The Official Movie Novelization
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Returned to Earth, Ellen Ripley learns that a colony has been established on LV-426, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo found the original Alien....
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Game Over, Man....
- By Doug on 07-18-16
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Aliens
- The Official Movie Novelization
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Series: Alien™: The Novelizations, Book 3, Alien, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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Alien 3
- The Official Movie Novelization
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Peter Guinness
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Fury 161 is a wretched planet - a penal colony and an industrial complex manned by violent prisoners....
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Brilliant work, yet again
- By Midwestbonsai on 04-18-16
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Alien 3
- The Official Movie Novelization
- Narrated by: Peter Guinness
- Series: Alien™: The Novelizations, Book 5, Alien, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-10-15
- Language: English
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Star Trek Movie Tie-In
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life? Or do you think you were meant for something better? Something special...."
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Excellent
- By Katelyn on 05-14-09
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Star Trek Movie Tie-In
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
- Series: Star Trek
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-30-09
- Language: English
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The Paths of the Perambulator [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 5
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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It’s an ordinary day in the Bellwoods, save for the fact that Jon-Tom the spellsinger has awoken as a six-foot blue crab. He soon reverts to normal — as normal as a college student trapped in a world of magic and talking animals can be, anyway....
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The Paths of the Perambulator [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 5
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, Chris Genebach, Bradley Smith, Thomas Penny, Matthew Keenan, Nora Achrati, Yasmin Tuazon, David Jourdan, Ken Jackson, Lily Beacon
- Series: The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 5
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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Spellsinger [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 1
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own....
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heavily abridged
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
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Spellsinger [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 1
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Yasmin Tuazon, Shanta Parasuraman, David Jourdan, Andy Clemence, James Konicek, Richard Rohan, Ren Kasey
- Series: The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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Voyage to the City of the Dead
- Humanx Commonwealth, Book 4
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a research expedition to an alien planet takes a treacherous turn for married scientists in this sci-fi fantasy....
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Lovely
- By Daniel Cascaddan on 03-31-24
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Voyage to the City of the Dead
- Humanx Commonwealth, Book 4
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Series: Humanx Commonwealth, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-20-24
- Language: English
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Prodigals
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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What happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous, something highly advanced...and something familiar? If humanity is wise, we will prepare for everything we can imagine....
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Disappointing drivel
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-23
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Prodigals
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-02-22
- Language: English
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The Unsettling Stars
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Taking place in an alternate timeline created when the Starship Kelvin was destroyed by a Romulan invader from the future, this bold new novel follows Captain James T. Kirk and an inexperienced crew commandeering a repaired USS Enterprise out of spacedock....
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Boldly go...
- By kevin on 06-04-20
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The Unsettling Stars
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Series: Star Trek
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-14-20
- Language: English
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Relic
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Once Homo sapiens reigned supreme, spreading from star system to star system in an empire that encountered no alien life and thus knew no enemy.... save itself. As had happened many times before, the most primal human instincts rose up....
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Really fun story!
- By APLang on 08-16-18
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Relic
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-14-18
- Language: English
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The Time of Transference [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 6
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Jon-Tom has been trapped in a strange land of talking owls and wizarding turtles for a year now, his sole consolation that in this universe his musical abilities have inadvertently made him something of a sorcerer....
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Enjoyable beyond it years!
- By William H. Willis on 02-20-22
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The Time of Transference [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Spellsinger, Book 6
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Gregory Linington, Bradley Smith, Amanda Forstrom, Yasmin Tuazon, Chris Genebach, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Christopher Walker, Scott McCormick, David Jourdan
- Series: The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 6
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-30-20
- Language: English
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The Man Who Used the Universe
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process....
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Idolized this book in paper in the 80's
- By Tom on 09-06-24
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The Man Who Used the Universe
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-24-17
- Language: English
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The Day of the Dissonance
- The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 3
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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To save his wizard mentor, a spellsinger—and his otter sidekick—must cross time and space, in this novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author....
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The Day of the Dissonance
- The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 3
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Series: The Spellsinger Adventures, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 12-05-23
- Language: English
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Drowning World
- Humanx Commonwealth, Book 7
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Fluva, the Drowning World, is a rain-drenched planet on the fringes of the Commonwealth whose indigenous species, the warlike Sakuntala, and its immigrant species, the hardworking Deyzara, stand on the brink of civil war.
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Drowning World
- Humanx Commonwealth, Book 7
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Series: Humanx Commonwealth, Book 7
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-28-24
- Language: English
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Maori
- A Novel
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
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A sweeping historical novel set in 19th-century New Zealand from the New York Times best-selling author....
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Maori by Alan Dean Foster
- By Caroline S. Garrett on 10-12-19
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Maori
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-18-19
- Language: English
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Star Trek: Into Darkness
- By: Alan Dean Foster
- Narrated by: Alice Eve
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The official movie tie-in novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2009's blockbuster feature film Star Trek....
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Damn it Man, I'm a Doctor!
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-23-13
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Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Narrated by: Alice Eve
- Series: Star Trek
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-21-13
- Language: English
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