How long does it take to read 2061?
Odyssey Three
2061 by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 5 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Space Odyssey
Previous: 2010: Odyssey Two Next: 3001: The Final Odyssey
About 5 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 279 pages, about 76,725 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey two. Two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths must once again confront David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Humanity is to play a part in the Evolution of the Galaxy whether it wishes to or not.
Subjects: Science fiction, Extraterrestrial beings, Fiction, General Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Space vehicles
