Embassytown: Audiobook
The Embassytown audiobook runs an estimated 11.6 hours (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 11.6 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 11.6 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 64% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 10% 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 11.6 hours (estimated).
About the book
China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown , Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Embassytown audiobook?
Embassytown runs about 11.6 hours, our estimate from its 392 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.
Can I listen to Embassytown free?
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Is Embassytown worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.9 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Embassytown first published?
Embassytown by China Miéville, China Miville was first published in 2011.
