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The Madness of Kings by Gene Doucette

The Madness of Kings: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Madness of Kings runs 12.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir and Paul Boehmer and others (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.2listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Madness of Kings at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day25 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.2 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 10 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 33.1 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Two Suns at Sunset10 hrs
2The Madness of Kings12.2 hrs
3The Ocean in the Sky10.9 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,855 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 Madness of Kings is book 2 of Gene Doucette's Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle series: a 12.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer and Stefan Rudnicki, released March 2, 2021, on the Science Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.2 hrs
Narrated by
Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki
Released
March 2, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction
Series
Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle #2
ISBN
9781799961994

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Madness of Kings as an audiobook?

The Madness of Kings runs 12.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.

Is The Madness of Kings free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Madness of Kings?

The Madness of Kings is narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer and Stefan Rudnicki.

Is The Madness of Kings worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4.1 hours.