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How Dark the World Becomes by Frank Chadwick

How Dark the World Becomes: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Sasha Naradnyo series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Dark the World Becomes audiobook runs 11 hours unabridged, narrated by Paul Heitsch (about 7.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11listening hrs
Space Operastore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11 hours of listening.

Days to finish How Dark the World Becomes at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 11 hours, it runs longer than 62% of the 2,721 Space Opera audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Sasha Naradnyo

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 21 hours in all.

About as long, on the Space Opera shelf

515 Space Opera 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

How Dark the World Becomes is book 1 of Frank Chadwick's Sasha Naradnyo series: a 11-hour unabridged recording, read by Paul Heitsch, released February 18, 2020, on the Space Opera shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11 hrs
Narrated by
Paul Heitsch
Released
February 18, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Space Opera
Series
Sasha Naradnyo #1
ISBN
9781977365354

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the How Dark the World Becomes audiobook?

How Dark the World Becomes runs 11 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.4 hours.

Is the How Dark the World Becomes audiobook free?

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

Who narrates How Dark the World Becomes?

How Dark the World Becomes is narrated by Paul Heitsch.

Is How Dark the World Becomes worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.4 hours, saving 3.7 hours.