Shipstar: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Bowl of Heaven series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Shipstar audiobook runs 15.2 hours unabridged, narrated by James R. Cheatham (about 10.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 15.2 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Bowl of Heaven
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 13.8 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 45 hours in all.
More narrated by James R. Cheatham
James R. Cheatham narrates 58 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 489 hours in all.
- A Mission Without Borders: Why a Father and Son Risked it All for the People of Ukraine
- The Eclipse of God: Our Nation’s Disastrous Search for a More Inclusive Deity (and What We Must Do About It)
- Broken Stars
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
- All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,064 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
Shipstar is book 2 of Gregory Benford's Bowl of Heaven series: a 15.2-hour unabridged recording, read by James R. Cheatham, released August 19, 2025, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- James R. Cheatham
- Released
- August 19, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Series
- Bowl of Heaven #2
- ISBN
- 9798855518344
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Shipstar audiobook?
Shipstar runs 15.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.1 hours.
Is the Shipstar audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Shipstar?
Shipstar is narrated by James R. Cheatham.
Is Shipstar worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.1 hours, saving 5.1 hours.