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Mercury by Ben Bova

Mercury: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Mercury audiobook runs 10.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Moira Quirk and Stefan Rudnicki and others (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.5listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2005released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Mercury 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 10.5 hours, it runs longer than 65% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Moira Quirk

Moira Quirk narrates 154 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,724 hours in all.

All Moira Quirk audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

2,132 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

Mercury is an audiobook by Ben Bova: a 10.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki and Arte Johnson, released May 1, 2005, on the Science Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.5 hrs
Narrated by
Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson
Released
May 1, 2005
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction
ISBN
9781593977078

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Mercury audiobook?

Mercury runs 10.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.

Is the Mercury audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Mercury?

Mercury is narrated by Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki and Arte Johnson.

Is Mercury worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.