City on Fire: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Metropolitan series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the City on Fire audiobook runs 24 hours unabridged, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller (about 16 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 24 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 48 days |
| 1 hour / day | 24 days |
| 2 hours / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 16 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 24 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Metropolitan Series
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 13.5 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 37.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan | 13.5 hrs |
| 2 | City on Fire | 24 hrs |
More narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
Emily Woo Zeller narrates 491 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 5,175 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
246 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Morning Star
- The Host
- The Skull Throne
- Red Mars
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy
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
City on Fire is book 2 of Walter Jon Williams's Metropolitan series: a 24-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Woo Zeller, released April 9, 2019, on the Science Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 24 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Woo Zeller
- Released
- April 9, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction
- Series
- The Metropolitan Series #2
- ISBN
- 9781982620400
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the City on Fire audiobook?
City on Fire runs 24 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 16 hours.
Is the City on Fire audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates City on Fire?
City on Fire is narrated by Emily Woo Zeller.
Is City on Fire worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 16 hours, saving 8 hours.