This Is Not a Game: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Dagmar Shaw series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Is Not a Game audiobook runs 11.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Jefferson Mays (about 7.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 11.7 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays narrates 98 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,070 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,936 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Star Wars Legends: Darth Bane Trilogy: Path of Destruction
- Star Wars: The Old Republic - Legends: Revan
- Armada
- The Troop
- Star Wars: Master & Apprentice
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 Not a Game is book 1 of Walter Jon Williams's Dagmar Shaw series: a 11.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Jefferson Mays, released October 12, 2012, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Science Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jefferson Mays
- Released
- October 12, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction), Science Fiction
- Series
- Dagmar Shaw #1
- ISBN
- 9781470328214
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Is Not a Game audiobook?
This Is Not a Game runs 11.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.8 hours.
Is the This Is Not a Game audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates This Is Not a Game?
This Is Not a Game is narrated by Jefferson Mays.
Is This Is Not a Game worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.8 hours, saving 3.9 hours.