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Gateway: Audiobook

The Gateway audiobook runs an estimated 9.3 hours (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.3est. listening hrs
3.5★33 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 9.3 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Gateway at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day19 days
1 hour / day10 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

What our data says

  • At 9.3 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 59% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 11% shorter 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 9.3 hours (estimated).

About the book

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take! BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer explains why Gateway is one of science fiction's all-time greatest novels. PLEASE NOTE: Some changes were made to the original text with the permission of the author.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Gateway audiobook?

Gateway runs about 9.3 hours, our estimate from its 313 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.

Is the Gateway audiobook free?

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

When was Gateway first published?

Gateway by Frederik Pohl was first published in 1977.