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Cover of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

This is How You Lose the Time War: Audiobook

The This is How You Lose the Time War audiobook runs an estimated 6.2 hours (about 4.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6.2est. listening hrs
4.1★29 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
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The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 6.2 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish This is How You Lose the Time War at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day13 days
1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

What our data says

  • At 6.2 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 81% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 41% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a weekend-size listen at 6.2 hours (estimated).

About the book

WINNER OF THE NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS FOR BEST NOVELLA “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review). From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the This is How You Lose the Time War audiobook?

This is How You Lose the Time War runs about 6.2 hours, our estimate from its 208 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.1 hours.

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When was This is How You Lose the Time War first published?

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone was first published in 2019.