The Soft Machine: The Restored Text: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Nova series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Soft Machine: The Restored Text runs 6.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ramiz Monsef (about 4.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 6.3 hours, it is shorter than 77% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Nova Trilogy
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 21.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Soft Machine: The Restored Text | 6.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text | 9.4 hrs |
| 3 | Nova Express: The Restored Text | 5.7 hrs |
More narrated by Ramiz Monsef
Ramiz Monsef narrates 60 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 601 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,358 Literary 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 Soft Machine: The Restored Text is book 1 of William S. Burroughs's Nova series: a 6.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Ramiz Monsef, released May 10, 2016, on the Literary Fiction and Science Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ramiz Monsef
- Released
- May 10, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
- Series
- The Nova Trilogy #1
- ISBN
- 9781504714303
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Soft Machine: The Restored Text as an audiobook?
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text runs 6.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.2 hours.
Is The Soft Machine: The Restored Text free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Soft Machine: The Restored Text?
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text is narrated by Ramiz Monsef.