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Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja

Mechanical Failure: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Epic Failure series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Mechanical Failure audiobook runs 10.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Joe Zieja (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.3listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish Mechanical Failure at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day21 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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

What our data says

  • At 10.3 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Epic Failure

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 31.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Mechanical Failure10.3 hrs
2Communication Failure9.8 hrs
3System Failure11.8 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

2,138 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

Mechanical Failure is book 1 of Joe Zieja's Epic Failure series: a 10.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Zieja, released June 28, 2016, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.3 hrs
Narrated by
Joe Zieja
Released
June 28, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Epic Failure #1
ISBN
9781515976851

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Mechanical Failure audiobook?

Mechanical Failure runs 10.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.

Is the Mechanical Failure audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Mechanical Failure?

Mechanical Failure is narrated by Joe Zieja.

Is Mechanical Failure worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.4 hours.