Consider Phlebas: Audiobook
The Consider Phlebas audiobook runs an estimated 13.9 hours (about 9.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 13.9 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 13.9 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 81% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 32% 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 solid week of commutes at 13.9 hours (estimated).
About the book
The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it.
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How long is the Consider Phlebas audiobook?
Consider Phlebas runs about 13.9 hours, our estimate from its 471 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.3 hours.
Can I listen to Consider Phlebas free?
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Is Consider Phlebas worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.3 hours, saving 4.6 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Consider Phlebas first published?
Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks was first published in 1987.
