Audiobooks by Gareth L. Powell

Doctor Who: The Well: 15th Doctor Novelisation

"Caoilfhionn Dunne reads this brand new novelisation of a recent TV adventure. A terror from the past is rising from the darkness five miles deep. Joining a military rescue mission to an isolated mining colony, the Doctor and Belinda find a single survivor of a violent catastrophe. What killed the colonists? Why is every mirror in the base smashed? The chilling truth spells horror and death… This spine-tingling space adventure from Sharma Walfall and Russell T Davies is novelised by award-winning SF and horror writer Gareth L Powell. It features the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra as played by Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu. Reader Caoilfhionn Dunne played Shaya in the BBC TV episode. Reading produced by Morrison Ellis. Sound design by David Roocroft. Executive Producer for BBC Studios: Michael Stevens (P) 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd."

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Caoilfhionn Dunne (Narrator)

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Future's Edge

"A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers and Becky Chambers. Readers of James S.A. Core will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and a race to save what is left of humanity. When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artifact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival. With time running short, and the planet housing the weapon now situated in hostile territory, she realises she’s going to have to commit an act of desperate piracy if she’s going to achieve her objective before the enemy’s final onslaught. A thrilling, page-turning journey into deep space where the fights are brutal, the relationships are complicated and the world ended years ago."

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Sarah Cullum (Narrator)

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Descendant Machine

"From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed. The Grand Mechanism is a machine the size of Saturn’s rings that has lain dormant for all recorded history, watched over by the alien Jzat. Now, rogue elements in Jzat and human society conspire to activate it, hoping it will bring them power and opportunity. But the only person who knows the Mechanism’s secrets is the Rav’nah Abelisk, a Jzat holy man on sabbatical aboard a vast alien megaship. Believing the Mechanism’s activation will bring galactic devastation, Nic Mafalda has to seek out the Abelisk before his sacred knowledge falls into the wrong hands—but only if she can first escape the lethally radioactive remains of her wrecked scout ship."

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Rebecca Norfolk (Narrator)

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Light Chaser

"In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure LIGHT CHASER, a love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire. Amahle is a Light Chaser – one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories. But when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times and on different worlds. She comes to understand that something terrible is happening, and only she is in a position to do anything about it. And it will cost everything to put it right."

Gareth L. Powell, Peter Hamilton (Author), Imogen Church (Narrator)

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Stars and Bones

"From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie. Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse who may just hold the key to humanity's survival. Gareth L. Powell's Embers of War won 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the 2019 Locus Awards and the 2021 Seiun Awards in Japan. Its sequels, Fleet of Knives and Light of Impossible Stars, were both shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel, and Fleet of Knives was also shortlisted for the 2020 Locus Awards. Powell balances plot, action, and character development perfectly. This promising start will especially appeal to James S.A. Corey fans. Publishers Weekly, starred review Gareth Powell drops you into the action from the first page and then Just. Keeps. Going. This is a pro at the top of his game. John Scalzi A headlong, visceral plunge into a future equal parts fascinating and terrifying. Adrian Tchaikovsky A gripping, fast-paced space opera that poses the unique question: what if instead of saving humanity, aliens decided to save the Earth? Stina Leicht, author of Persephone Station A grand scale adventure packed with fun banter, snappy prose, and masterful science. Essa Hansen, author of Nophek Gloss An interstellar intelligence has a plan for Earth's future, but is humanity a part of it? Fast-paced and thoughtful, Stars and Bones leaves the reader well-fed with hearty helpings of mystery, suspense, adventure, and terror. Marina Lostetter, author of Noumenon Gareth Powell's Stars and Bones is shocking and beautiful--an electric, epic, and sometimes gruesome look at humanity facing its biggest challenge yet. Powell keeps the pressure on and doesn't let go. I enjoyed it immensely. Karen Osborne, author of Architects of Memory A vividly imagined, propulsive read. Filled with a loveable cast of characters. Powell's writing creates a rich tapestry of their voices and inner lives. I think readers will be thrilled by this story. Temi Oh, author of Do You Dream of Terra-Two? Big ships, big ideas and big emotions. Thrilling space opera which is epic in scope, yet always rooted at the human level, as all the best sci-fi is. Emma Newman, author of Planetfall An interstellar collision of massive ideas and startling originality. Zack Jordan, author of The Last Human Stars and Bones crafts a future that finds hope in dark places. Valerie Valdes, author of Chilling Effect"

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Rebecca Norfolk (Narrator)

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Light of Impossible Stars: An Embers of War Novel

"Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy. Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion—an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilization crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada? Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artifacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing the city’s song in her head, strange things start happening around her. What extraordinary affinity does she have for this abandoned technology, and how can it possibly help the Trouble Dog?"

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Amy Landon, Andrew Eiden, Emily Lawrence, Joe Hempel, Natasha Soudek, Nicol Zanzarella, Soneela Nankani (Narrator)

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Fleet of Knives: An Embers of War Novel

"From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy’s Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge aboard an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own. Recovered war criminal Ona Sudak faces a firing squad for her actions in the Archipelago War. But, at the last moment, she is smuggled out of her high-security prison. The Marble Armada has called for her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison as it spreads itself across the human Generality, enforcing the peace at all costs. The alien ships will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with overwhelming and implacable force. Then her vessel intercepts messages from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog has a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure. As the Trouble Dog and her crew fight to save the crew of the Lucy’s Ghost, the ship finds herself caught between chaotic alien monsters on one side and, on the other, destruction at the hands of the Marble Armada."

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Amy Landon, Joe Hempel, Natasha Soudek, Nicol Zanzarella, Soneela Nankani (Narrator)

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Embers of War

"From BSFA Award–winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are sent on a rescue mission. Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing spaceship. What Childe doesn’t know is that Sudak is not the person she appears to be. A straightforward rescue turns into something far more dangerous, as Trouble Dog, Konstanz, and Childe find themselves at the center of a conflict that could engulf the entire galaxy. If she is to save her crew, Trouble Dog is going to have to remember how to fight …"

Gareth L. Powell (Author), Amy Landon, Greg Tremblay, Natasha Soudek, Nicol Zanzarella, Soneela Nankani (Narrator)

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