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3001: Audiobook

The 3001 audiobook runs an estimated 8.2 hours (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.2est. listening hrs
3.7★27 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8.2 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish 3001 at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 8.2 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 68% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 22% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a solid week of commutes at 8.2 hours (estimated).

About the book

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly, daringly leaps one thousand years into the future to reveal a truth we are only now capable of comprehending. An epic masterpiece at once dazzlingly imaginative and grounded in scientific actuality, 3001 is a story that only Arthur C. Clarke could tell.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the 3001 audiobook?

3001 runs about 8.2 hours, our estimate from its 276 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.

Can I listen to 3001 free?

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When was 3001 first published?

3001 by Arthur C. Clarke was first published in 1997.