First Contact: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Oblivion series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the First Contact audiobook runs 4.5 hours unabridged, narrated by James Fouhey (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 78% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Oblivion
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 5.1 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 18.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost Mission | 5.1 hrs |
| 2 | First Contact | 4.5 hrs |
| 3 | Final Invasion | 4.4 hrs |
| 4 | Star Fallen | 4.7 hrs |
More narrated by James Fouhey
James Fouhey narrates 425 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,137 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
489 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
First Contact is book 2 of Joshua James's Oblivion series: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by James Fouhey, released September 1, 2020, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Fouhey
- Released
- September 1, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Series
- Oblivion #2
- ISBN
- 9781705241066
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the First Contact audiobook?
First Contact runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
Is the First Contact audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates First Contact?
First Contact is narrated by James Fouhey.