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Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear

Ancestral Night: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Ancestral Night audiobook runs 16.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Nneka Okoye (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16.8listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish Ancestral Night at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day34 days
1 hour / day17 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 16.8 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

767 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Ancestral Night is an audiobook by Elizabeth Bear: a 16.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Nneka Okoye, released March 5, 2019, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
16.8 hrs
Narrated by
Nneka Okoye
Released
March 5, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
ISBN
9781508281535

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Ancestral Night audiobook?

Ancestral Night runs 16.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.

Is the Ancestral Night audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Ancestral Night?

Ancestral Night is narrated by Nneka Okoye.

Is Ancestral Night worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.