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Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon

Cold Welcome: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Vatta's Peace series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Cold Welcome audiobook runs 15.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Carrie Coello (about 10.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.6listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2024released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Cold Welcome 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

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

What our data says

  • At 15.6 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Vatta's Peace

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 31.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Cold Welcome15.6 hrs
2Into the Fire16.3 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

987 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

Cold Welcome is book 1 of Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's Peace series: a 15.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Carrie Coello, released July 16, 2024, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.6 hrs
Narrated by
Carrie Coello
Released
July 16, 2024
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Vatta's Peace #1
ISBN
9798350894721

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Cold Welcome audiobook?

Cold Welcome runs 15.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.4 hours.

Is the Cold Welcome audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Cold Welcome?

Cold Welcome is narrated by Carrie Coello.

Is Cold Welcome worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.4 hours, saving 5.2 hours.