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The Martian Chronicles: Audiobook

As an audiobook, The Martian Chronicles runs an estimated 7.7 hours (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.7est. listening hrs
4.1★110 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 7.7 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish The Martian Chronicles at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 7.7 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 70% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 27% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a weekend-size listen at 7.7 hours (estimated).

About the book

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles , a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor—of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Martian Chronicles as an audiobook?

The Martian Chronicles runs about 7.7 hours, our estimate from its 262 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.

Is The Martian Chronicles free as an audiobook?

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

When was The Martian Chronicles first published?

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury was first published in 1950.