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Pawn by Timothy Zahn

Pawn: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Chronicle of the Sibyl's War series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Pawn audiobook runs 11.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Joel Richards (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.6listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Pawn at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 11.6 hours, it runs longer than 73% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Chronicle of the Sibyl's War

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 34.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Pawn11.6 hrs
2Knight10.6 hrs
3Queen: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War12.4 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,979 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

Pawn is book 1 of Timothy Zahn's Chronicle of the Sibyl's War series: a 11.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Joel Richards, released November 28, 2017, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.6 hrs
Narrated by
Joel Richards
Released
November 28, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Chronicle of the Sibyl's War #1
ISBN
9781541489035

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Pawn audiobook?

Pawn runs 11.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.

Is the Pawn audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Pawn?

Pawn is narrated by Joel Richards.

Is Pawn worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.9 hours.