Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction

Classic Dystopian Audiobooks is a curated collection of public domain dystopian fiction, apocalyptic worlds, survival stories, authoritarian societies, speculative futures, social collapse narratives, and visionary science fiction classics designed for immersive long-form listening.

Inside the archive you will discover forbidden futures, collapsing civilizations, totalitarian governments, technological control systems, isolated survivors, ruined societies, psychological survival stories, and influential literary works that shaped the modern dystopian genre.

From early speculative fiction and post-apocalyptic survival to dark political warnings and catastrophic world-ending scenarios, each audiobook is selected to create a massive listening archive for fans of dystopian fiction, existential storytelling, and immersive atmospheric audio.

New recordings and restored editions are added regularly.

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Episodes

Jul 8, 2026

1hr 17 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comLysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c.Author: AristophanesLength: 1 hours 17 minutesGenre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), ComedyChapters:00:00 - Chapter 150:10 - Chapter 2#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

Jul 7, 2026

3hr 47 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comThe Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G.Author: H. G. WellsLength: 3 hours 47 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 121:30 - Chapter 235:29 - Chapter 350:55 - Chapter 401:18:45 - Chapter 502:01:44 - Chapter 602:16:10 - Chapter 702:34:30 - Chapter 802:52:47 - Chapter 903:10:16 - Chapter 1003:17:59 - Chapter 1103:31:22 - Chapter 1203:44:42 - Chapter 13#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

Jul 3, 2026

1hr 14 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comThis 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: SophoclesLength: 1 hours 14 minutesGenre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), TragedyChapters:00:00 - Chapter 142:24 - Chapter 2#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

Jun 28, 2026

32hr 29 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comThe story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration. The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity.Author: Charles DickensLength: 32 hours 29 minutesGenre: General Fiction, Literary FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 103:38 - Chapter 228:28 - Chapter 301:01:00 - Chapter 401:35:15 - Chapter 502:17:57 - Chapter 602:59:51 - Chapter 703:16:28 - Chapter 803:57:53 - Chapter 904:31:39 - Chapter 1004:58:14 - Chapter 1105:42:44 - Chapter 1206:20:01 - Chapter 1306:42:06 - Chapter 1407:27:52 - Chapter 1508:01:55 - Chapter 1608:24:06 - Chapter 1709:11:56 - Chapter 1809:51:16 - Chapter 1910:08:45 - Chapter 2010:44:05 - Chapter 2111:03:26 - Chapter 2211:47:38 - Chapter 2312:36:09 - Chapter 2413:08:18 - Chapter 2513:27:27 - Chapter 2614:11:44 - Chapter 2714:46:59 - Chapter 2815:07:53 - Chapter 2915:50:25 - Chapter 3016:06:50 - Chapter 3116:24:54 - Chapter 3216:45:45 - Chapter 3317:27:26 - Chapter 3418:04:26 - Chapter 3518:23:17 - Chapter 3619:08:42 - Chapter 3719:46:26 - Chapter 3820:04:07 - Chapter 3920:42:01 - Chapter 4021:25:08 - Chapter 4121:44:19 - Chapter 4222:19:07 - Chapter 4323:03:44 - Chapter 4423:22:06 - Chapter 4523:55:54 - Chapter 4624:29:41 - Chapter 4724:59:22 - Chapter 4825:23:24 - Chapter 4925:48:15 - Chapter 5026:16:14 - Chapter 5126:37:46 - Chapter 5227:17:17 - Chapter 5328:12:17 - Chapter 5428:23:24 - Chapter 5528:57:37 - Chapter 5629:25:00 - Chapter 5729:39:16 - Chapter 5830:03:57 - Chapter 5930:19:12 - Chapter 6030:56:12 - Chapter 6131:16:10 - Chapter 6231:43:34 - Chapter 6332:02:10 - Chapter 6432:19:24 - Chapter 65#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

May 23, 2026

6hr 16 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comTwo 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 "country folk" who don't take it seriously and soon Herakleophorbia IV is running rampant throughout England and then across the globe, creating giant plants and animals that wreak havoc on the land and then the people.Author: H. G. WellsLength: 6 hours 16 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 115:35 - Chapter 201:05:34 - Chapter 301:56:43 - Chapter 402:38:52 - Chapter 502:57:10 - Chapter 603:27:57 - Chapter 703:54:36 - Chapter 804:32:49 - Chapter 905:00:45 - Chapter 1005:21:47 - Chapter 1105:51:41 - Chapter 12#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

May 23, 2026

6hr 3 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comAround 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 VerneLength: 6 hours 3 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 110:14 - Chapter 223:20 - Chapter 349:49 - Chapter 401:09:31 - Chapter 501:21:18 - Chapter 601:39:54 - Chapter 701:55:34 - Chapter 802:15:35 - Chapter 902:35:58 - Chapter 1002:48:31 - Chapter 1102:55:50 - Chapter 1203:02:57 - Chapter 1303:17:42 - Chapter 1403:34:48 - Chapter 1503:53:46 - Chapter 1604:16:44 - Chapter 1704:21:43 - Chapter 1804:39:29 - Chapter 1904:55:58 - Chapter 2005:14:46 - Chapter 2105:25:29 - Chapter 2205:40:19 - Chapter 2305:56:06 - Chapter 24#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

May 19, 2026

4hr 9 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comThe Time Machine is a novel by H. G.Author: H. G. WellsLength: 4 hours 9 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 119:32 - Chapter 243:54 - Chapter 358:55 - Chapter 401:15:58 - Chapter 501:47:44 - Chapter 602:27:38 - Chapter 702:40:34 - Chapter 802:56:05 - Chapter 903:13:11 - Chapter 1003:34:25 - Chapter 1103:42:04 - Chapter 1203:55:17 - Chapter 13#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

May 16, 2026

6hr 43 min

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.comH. G.Author: H. G. WellsLength: 6 hours 43 minutesGenre: Science FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 113:52 - Chapter 222:13 - Chapter 329:04 - Chapter 435:23 - Chapter 545:45 - Chapter 652:21 - Chapter 701:02:30 - Chapter 801:09:30 - Chapter 901:22:56 - Chapter 1001:36:42 - Chapter 1101:53:57 - Chapter 1202:17:37 - Chapter 1302:28:27 - Chapter 1402:52:22 - Chapter 1503:11:23 - Chapter 1603:39:43 - Chapter 1704:02:36 - Chapter 1804:19:25 - Chapter 1904:38:42 - Chapter 2004:51:53 - Chapter 2105:01:37 - Chapter 2205:09:11 - Chapter 2305:18:54 - Chapter 2405:57:40 - Chapter 2506:20:42 - Chapter 2606:34:05 - Chapter 27#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #ScienceFictionAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.Text and narration are public domain.Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers.Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Dystopian Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Apocalypse, Survival & Totalitarian Fiction. Want the full experience? Get complete video episodes, exclusive bonus content, and access to everything on The Forbidden Knowledge Network.https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork

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