The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues: Audiobook
Book 8 of the Stainless Steel Rat series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues runs 6.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Phil Gigante (about 4.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 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 6.6 hours, it is shorter than 67% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Stainless Steel Rat
This is book 8. Books 1 to 7 run 42.6 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 64.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stainless Steel Rat | 4.9 hrs |
| 2 | The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge | 5.6 hrs |
| 3 | The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World | 4.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You | 5.3 hrs |
| 5 | The Stainless Steel Rat for President | 6.4 hrs |
| 6 | A Stainless Steel Rat is Born | 7.3 hrs |
| 7 | The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted | 8.4 hrs |
| 8 | The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues | 6.6 hrs |
| 9 | The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell | 7.5 hrs |
| 10 | The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus | 7.6 hrs |
More narrated by Phil Gigante
Phil Gigante narrates 188 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,860 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,170 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 Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues is book 8 of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series: a 6.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Phil Gigante, released April 12, 2011, on the Science Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Phil Gigante
- Released
- April 12, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction
- Series
- Stainless Steel Rat #8
- ISBN
- 9781441881601
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues as an audiobook?
The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues runs 6.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.4 hours.
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Who narrates The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues?
The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues is narrated by Phil Gigante.