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Bright Steel by Miles Cameron

Bright Steel: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Masters & Mages series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Bright Steel audiobook runs 16 hours unabridged, narrated by Mark Meadows (about 10.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16listening hrs
Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)store shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16 hours of listening.

Days to finish Bright Steel at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day32 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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What our data says

  • At 16 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 2,729 Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Masters & Mages

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 36.5 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 52.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Cold Iron19.5 hrs
2Dark Forge17 hrs
3Bright Steel16 hrs

More narrated by Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows narrates 236 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,168 hours in all.

All Mark Meadows audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelf

305 Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) 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

Bright Steel is book 3 of Miles Cameron's Masters & Mages series: a 16-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Meadows, released December 10, 2019, on the Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
16 hrs
Narrated by
Mark Meadows
Released
December 10, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Series
Masters & Mages #3
ISBN
9781549182792

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Bright Steel audiobook?

Bright Steel runs 16 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.7 hours.

Is the Bright Steel audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Bright Steel?

Bright Steel is narrated by Mark Meadows.

Is Bright Steel worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.7 hours, saving 5.3 hours.