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The Stars Are Also Fire by Poul Anderson

The Stars Are Also Fire: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Harvest of Stars series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Stars Are Also Fire runs 18 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Fouhey (about 12 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Stars Are Also Fire at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day36 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 18 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Harvest of Stars

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 21.7 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 59 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Harvest of Stars21.7 hrs
2The Stars Are Also Fire18 hrs
3Harvest the Fire4.2 hrs
4Fleet of Stars15.1 hrs

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

640 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 Stars Are Also Fire is book 2 of Poul Anderson's Harvest of Stars series: a 18-hour unabridged recording, read by James Fouhey, released October 12, 2021, on the Apocalyptic & Dystopian and Science Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
18 hrs
Narrated by
James Fouhey
Released
October 12, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Science Fiction
Series
Harvest of Stars #2
ISBN
9781666117844

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Stars Are Also Fire as an audiobook?

The Stars Are Also Fire runs 18 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12 hours.

Is The Stars Are Also Fire free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Stars Are Also Fire?

The Stars Are Also Fire is narrated by James Fouhey.

Is The Stars Are Also Fire worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12 hours, saving 6 hours.