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This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death audiobook runs 15.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Rachael McCabe and Mandy Kaplan and others (about 10.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.5listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2013released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day31 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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What our data says

  • At 15.5 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf

1,009 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

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death is an audiobook by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo and David Malki: a 15.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Rachael McCabe, Mandy Kaplan and Robert Morgan Fisher and others, released July 16, 2013, on the Science Fiction and Essays & Anthologies shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.5 hrs
Narrated by
Rachael McCabe, Mandy Kaplan, Robert Morgan Fisher, Will Collyer, Erin Bennett, Dan Woren
Released
July 16, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Apocalyptic & Dystopian
ISBN
9781619698390

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death audiobook?

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death runs 15.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.3 hours.

Is the This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death audiobook free?

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Who narrates This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death?

This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death is narrated by Rachael McCabe, Mandy Kaplan, Robert Morgan Fisher and Will Collyer and others.

Is This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.3 hours, saving 5.2 hours.