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Invisible Sun by Charles Stross

Invisible Sun: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Empire Games series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Invisible Sun audiobook runs 18.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Kate Reading (about 12.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18.5listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Invisible Sun at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day37 days
1 hour / day19 days
2 hours / day10 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×13 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 18.5 hours, it runs longer than 94% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Empire Games

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 27.3 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 45.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Empire Games13.4 hrs
2Dark State13.9 hrs
3Invisible Sun18.5 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

574 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

Invisible Sun is book 3 of Charles Stross's Empire Games series: a 18.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Kate Reading, released September 30, 2021, on the Science Fiction and Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
18.5 hrs
Narrated by
Kate Reading
Released
September 30, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Series
Empire Games #3
ISBN
9781509864829

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Invisible Sun audiobook?

Invisible Sun runs 18.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.3 hours.

Is the Invisible Sun audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Invisible Sun?

Invisible Sun is narrated by Kate Reading.

Is Invisible Sun worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.3 hours, saving 6.2 hours.