Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Dire Earth Cycle series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel audiobook runs 9.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Dire Earth Cycle
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 32.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Injection Burn: Book One of The Dire Earth Duology | 9 hrs |
| 2 | Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel | 9.6 hrs |
| 3 | The Plague Forge: The Dire Earth Cycle: Three | 14.1 hrs |
More narrated by Simon Vance
Simon Vance narrates 793 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 8,393 hours in all.
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- Dune Messiah: Book Two in the Dune Chronicles
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About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
2,150 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
Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel is book 2 of Jason M. Hough's Dire Earth Cycle series: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released June 27, 2017, on the Science Fiction and Espionage shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- June 27, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction, Espionage
- Series
- The Dire Earth Cycle #2
- ISBN
- 9781524780661
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel audiobook?
Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
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Who narrates Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel?
Escape Velocity: A Dire Earth Novel is narrated by Simon Vance.