The Starlight Sword: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Rogue Merchant series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Starlight Sword runs 15.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Bendena and Pete Cross (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 31 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 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 15.4 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Rogue Merchant
This is book 1. Books 1 to 7 run 84.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Starlight Sword | 15.4 hrs |
| 2 | The Gene of Ancients | 12.5 hrs |
| 3 | Shadow Seer | 9.4 hrs |
| 4 | Battle for the North | 11 hrs |
| 5 | The Devil Archetype | 11.5 hrs |
| 6 | The Dreamweaver | 14.1 hrs |
| 7 | The Starlight Fleet | 10.6 hrs |
More narrated by David Bendena
David Bendena narrates 89 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 849 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,027 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 Starlight Sword is book 1 of Roman Prokofiev's Rogue Merchant series: a 15.4-hour unabridged recording, read by David Bendena and Pete Cross, released May 16, 2023, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Science Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Bendena, Pete Cross
- Released
- May 16, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction), Science Fiction
- Series
- Rogue Merchant #1
- ISBN
- 9781666637847
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Starlight Sword as an audiobook?
The Starlight Sword runs 15.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.
Is The Starlight Sword free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Starlight Sword?
The Starlight Sword is narrated by David Bendena and Pete Cross.
Is The Starlight Sword worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.1 hours.