Roadside Picnic: Audiobook
The Roadside Picnic audiobook runs an estimated 5 hours (about 3.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 5 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 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 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 90% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 52% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).
Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for science fiction listeners: a weekend-size listen at 5 hours (estimated).
About the book
[Comment by Hari Kunru in The Guardian][1]: > Soviet-era Russian science fiction deserves a wider audience in English. The Strugatsky brothers collaborated on numerous novels and stories, the best known of which is this, partly because it was filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker, in 1977. The novel takes place 10 years after a mysterious alien visitation, which seems to have no rational explanation. No one saw the visitors. Their presence caused disease and blindness in the areas where they landed. Now, in the six "Zones", the laws of physics (and, seemingly, of reality) are disturbed by anomalies, and littered with inexplicable, deadly wreckage. Only a few brave "stalkers" risk their lives to enter the zones to gather alien artefacts for sale. Some of these artefacts offer the promise of extraordinary powers.
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How long is the Roadside Picnic audiobook?
Roadside Picnic runs about 5 hours, our estimate from its 170 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.3 hours.
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When was Roadside Picnic first published?
Roadside Picnic by Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky was first published in 1978.
