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Chill by Elizabeth Bear

Chill: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Jacob's Ladder series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Chill audiobook runs 11 hours unabridged, narrated by Alma Cuervo (about 7.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11 hours of listening.

Days to finish Chill at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 11 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Jacob's Ladder

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10.2 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 33.6 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Dust10.2 hrs
2Chill11 hrs
3Grail12.3 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

2,146 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

Chill is book 2 of Elizabeth Bear's Jacob's Ladder series: a 11-hour unabridged recording, read by Alma Cuervo, released September 16, 2011, on the Science Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11 hrs
Narrated by
Alma Cuervo
Released
September 16, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction
Series
Jacob's Ladder #2
ISBN
9781461848059

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Chill audiobook?

Chill runs 11 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.4 hours.

Is the Chill audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Chill?

Chill is narrated by Alma Cuervo.

Is Chill worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.4 hours, saving 3.7 hours.