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Cover of House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, John Lee

House of Suns: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the House of Suns audiobook runs 18 hours (about 12 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18listening hrs
4.1★23 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 18 hours of listening.

Days to finish House of Suns at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day36 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any of the 2,187 audiobooks we measure.

What our data says

  • At 18 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 65% longer than the average science fiction audiobook (10.9 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a long-haul epic at 18 hours.

About the book

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their thirty-second reunion but they have also brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the House of Suns audiobook?

House of Suns runs 18 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12 hours.

Is the House of Suns audiobook free?

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

Is House of Suns worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12 hours, saving 6 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was House of Suns first published?

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, John Lee was first published in 2008.