Out of the Silent Planet: Audiobook
The Out of the Silent Planet audiobook runs an estimated 5.1 hours (about 3.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 5.1 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 5.1 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 88% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
- That's 54% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook (11 hrs across 1861 titles in our dataset).
Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for fantasy listeners: a weekend-size listen at 5.1 hours (estimated).
About the book
Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (also known as the Cosmic or Space Trilogy), which is considered his chief contribution to science fiction. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for mankind. On a walking tour of the English countryside, Ransom falls in with some slightly shady characters from his old university and wakes up to find himself naked in a metal ball in the middle of the light-filled heavens. He learns that he is on his way to a world called Malacandra by its natives, who call our world Thulcandra, the silent planet. The Malacandrans see planets as having tutelary spirits; those of the other planets are good and accessible, but Earth’s is fallen and twisted.
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How long is the Out of the Silent Planet audiobook?
Out of the Silent Planet runs about 5.1 hours, our estimate from its 174 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.4 hours.
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When was Out of the Silent Planet first published?
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis was first published in 1938.
