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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

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Is How You Lose the Time War audiobook runs 4.3 hours (about 2.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4.3listening hrs
4.1★29 ratings
Science Fictiongenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 4.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish This Is How You Lose the Time War at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day9 days
1 hour / day5 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 4.3 hours, it's shorter than 93% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 61% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.9 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).

Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for science fiction listeners: a weekend-size listen at 4.3 hours.

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 4.3 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.9 hours.

Is the This Is How You Lose the Time War audiobook free?

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

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.