Hero's Return: Audiobook
Book 9 of the Homeworld Lost series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Hero's Return audiobook runs 9.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Neill Thorne (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 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 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 56% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Homeworld Lost
This is book 9. Books 1 to 8 run 85.1 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 145 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homeworld Lost | 11.5 hrs |
| 2 | Forsaken Crown | 11.6 hrs |
| 3 | Leviathan's Bane | 11.1 hrs |
| 4 | Paragon's Fall | 10.6 hrs |
| 5 | Earth Rising | 9.8 hrs |
| 6 | United Nexus | 10 hrs |
| 7 | Obsidian Gate | 9.7 hrs |
| 8 | Rebel's Ultimatum | 10.9 hrs |
| 9 | Hero's Return | 9.4 hrs |
| 10 | Shining World | 10.2 hrs |
| 11 | Darkness Falls | 8.4 hrs |
| 12 | Galaxy's Requiem | 8.2 hrs |
More narrated by Neill Thorne
Neill Thorne narrates 96 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 942 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
2,103 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
Hero's Return is book 9 of Scott Moon's Homeworld Lost series: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Neill Thorne, released June 12, 2026, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Neill Thorne
- Released
- June 12, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Series
- Homeworld Lost #9
- ISBN
- 9780466154196
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Hero's Return audiobook?
Hero's Return runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.
Is the Hero's Return audiobook free?
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Who narrates Hero's Return?
Hero's Return is narrated by Neill Thorne.