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Sea of Tranquility: Audiobook

The Sea of Tranquility audiobook runs an estimated 8 hours (about 5.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8est. listening hrs
3.8★25 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 8 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Sea of Tranquility at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 8 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 69% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 24% 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 solid week of commutes at 8 hours (estimated).

About the book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times , NPR, GoodReads “One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” — The New York Times Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Sea of Tranquility audiobook?

Sea of Tranquility runs about 8 hours, our estimate from its 272 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.3 hours.

Can I listen to Sea of Tranquility free?

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When was Sea of Tranquility first published?

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel was first published in 1999.