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System Failure by Joe Zieja

System Failure: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Epic Failure series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the System Failure audiobook runs 11.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Joe Zieja (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.8listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish System Failure 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 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Epic Failure

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 20.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 31.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Mechanical Failure10.3 hrs
2Communication Failure9.8 hrs
3System Failure11.8 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,923 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

System Failure is book 3 of Joe Zieja's Epic Failure series: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Joe Zieja, released September 17, 2019, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.8 hrs
Narrated by
Joe Zieja
Released
September 17, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Epic Failure #3
ISBN
9781515976875

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the System Failure audiobook?

System Failure runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.

Is the System Failure audiobook free?

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

Who narrates System Failure?

System Failure is narrated by Joe Zieja.

Is System Failure worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.