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Hell Ship by Philip Palmer

Hell Ship: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Hell Ship series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Hell Ship audiobook runs 14.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds and Gideon Emery and others (about 9.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.6listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Hell Ship at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day30 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 14.6 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Hell Ship

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 28.6 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Hell Ship14.6 hrs
2Artemis14 hrs

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

Hell Ship is book 1 of Philip Palmer's Hell Ship series: a 14.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds, Gideon Emery and Bianca Amato, released July 1, 2011, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.6 hrs
Narrated by
Tim Gerard Reynolds, Gideon Emery, Bianca Amato
Released
July 1, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Hell Ship #1
ISBN
9781461813682

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Hell Ship audiobook?

Hell Ship runs 14.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.7 hours.

Is the Hell Ship audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Hell Ship?

Hell Ship is narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds, Gideon Emery and Bianca Amato.

Is Hell Ship worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.7 hours, saving 4.9 hours.