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Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon

Command Decision: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Vatta's War series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Command Decision audiobook runs 15 hours unabridged, narrated by Cynthia Holloway (about 10 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15 hours of listening.

Days to finish Command Decision at common listening paces
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30 min / day30 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 15 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Vatta's War

This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 43.7 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 74.4 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Trading in Danger13.8 hrs
2Marque and Reprisal14.3 hrs
3Engaging the Enemy15.6 hrs
4Command Decision15 hrs
5Victory Conditions15.7 hrs

More narrated by Cynthia Holloway

Cynthia Holloway narrates 48 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 549 hours in all.

All Cynthia Holloway audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,114 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

Command Decision is book 4 of Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series: a 15-hour unabridged recording, read by Cynthia Holloway, released January 5, 2009, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
15 hrs
Narrated by
Cynthia Holloway
Released
January 5, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Vatta's War #4
ISBN
9781400178308

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Command Decision audiobook?

Command Decision runs 15 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10 hours.

Is the Command Decision audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Command Decision?

Command Decision is narrated by Cynthia Holloway.

Is Command Decision worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10 hours, saving 5 hours.