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Gold Dust by Catherine Asaro

Gold Dust: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Dust Knights series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Gold Dust audiobook runs 19.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Morgan Hallett (about 13 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

19.5listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2026released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 19.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Gold Dust at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day39 days
1 hour / day20 days
2 hours / day10 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×13 days

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What our data says

  • At 19.5 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

475 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

Gold Dust is book 2 of Catherine Asaro's Dust Knights series: a 19.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Morgan Hallett, released January 5, 2026, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
19.5 hrs
Narrated by
Morgan Hallett
Released
January 5, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
The Dust Knights #2
ISBN
9781705076620

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Gold Dust audiobook?

Gold Dust runs 19.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13 hours.

Is the Gold Dust audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Gold Dust?

Gold Dust is narrated by Morgan Hallett.

Is Gold Dust worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13 hours, saving 6.5 hours.