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Cover of Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

Chasm City: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Chasm City audiobook runs 23 hours (about 15.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

23listening hrs
3.9★21 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 23 hours of listening.

Days to finish Chasm City at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day46 days
1 hour / day23 days
2 hours / day12 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×16 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any of the 2,187 audiobooks we measure.

What our data says

  • At 23 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 111% longer than the average science fiction audiobook (10.9 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a long-haul epic at 23 hours.

About the book

Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle , Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City , Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell... The once-utopian Chasm City—a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet—has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted—from the people to the very buildings they inhabit—only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Chasm City audiobook?

Chasm City runs 23 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 15.3 hours.

Is the Chasm City audiobook free?

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

Is Chasm City worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 15.3 hours, saving 7.7 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Chasm City first published?

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds was first published in 2001.