The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Crosstown to Oblivion series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion runs 6.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Beresford Bennett and Dominic Hoffman (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.5 hours, it is shorter than 68% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Crosstown to Oblivion
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 21.5 hours in all.
More narrated by Beresford Bennett
Beresford Bennett narrates 43 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 430 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,150 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 Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion is book 1 of Walter Mosley's Crosstown to Oblivion series: a 6.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Beresford Bennett and Dominic Hoffman, released May 8, 2012, on the Science Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Beresford Bennett, Dominic Hoffman
- Released
- May 8, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction
- Series
- Crosstown to Oblivion #1
- ISBN
- 9780307989963
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion as an audiobook?
The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion runs 6.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.
Is The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion?
The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion is narrated by Beresford Bennett and Dominic Hoffman.