The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics runs 12.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ray Porter (about 8.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.8 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 1,009 Astronomy & Physics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ray Porter
Ray Porter narrates 293 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,094 hours in all.
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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
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is an audiobook by Leonard Susskind: a 12.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Ray Porter, released July 7, 2008, on the Astronomy & Physics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ray Porter
- Released
- July 7, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Astronomy & Physics
- ISBN
- 9781483057439
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics as an audiobook?
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics runs 12.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.5 hours.
Is The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics?
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is narrated by Ray Porter.
Is The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.5 hours, saving 4.3 hours.