The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact runs 28.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Anderson Foster and Tim Campbell and others (about 18.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 28.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 57 days |
| 1 hour / day | 29 days |
| 2 hours / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 19 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 28.4 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by James Anderson Foster
James Anderson Foster narrates 222 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,295 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
130 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
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact is an audiobook by Neil Clarke (editor): a 28.4-hour unabridged recording, read by James Anderson Foster, Tim Campbell and Mary Robinette Kowal and others, released July 10, 2018, on the Science Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 28.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Anderson Foster, Tim Campbell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Karen Cass, James Langton
- Released
- July 10, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781543680416
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact as an audiobook?
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact runs 28.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 18.9 hours.
Is The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact?
The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact is narrated by James Anderson Foster, Tim Campbell, Mary Robinette Kowal and Karen Cass and others.
Is The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 18.9 hours, saving 9.5 hours.