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Chasm City: Audiobook

The Chasm City audiobook runs an estimated 18 hours (about 12 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18est. listening hrs
3.9★21 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 18 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Chasm City at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day36 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

What our data says

  • At 18 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 94% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 71% longer 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 long-haul epic at 18 hours (estimated).

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 about 18 hours, our estimate from its 608 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12 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 12 hours, saving 6 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.