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On The Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds

On The Steel Breeze: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Poseidon's Children series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the On The Steel Breeze audiobook runs 23.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Adjoa Andoh (about 15.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

23.3listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 23.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish On The Steel Breeze at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day47 days
1 hour / day24 days
2 hours / day12 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×16 days

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

What our data says

  • At 23.3 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Poseidon's Children

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 21.8 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 72.2 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Blue Remembered Earth21.8 hrs
2On The Steel Breeze23.3 hrs
3Poseidon's Wake27.1 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

273 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

On The Steel Breeze is book 2 of Alastair Reynolds's Poseidon's Children series: a 23.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Adjoa Andoh, released June 12, 2014, on the Science Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
23.3 hrs
Narrated by
Adjoa Andoh
Released
June 12, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction
Series
Poseidon's Children #2
ISBN
9781470380304

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the On The Steel Breeze audiobook?

On The Steel Breeze runs 23.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 15.5 hours.

Is the On The Steel Breeze audiobook free?

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

Who narrates On The Steel Breeze?

On The Steel Breeze is narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

Is On The Steel Breeze worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 15.5 hours, saving 7.8 hours.