How long does it take to read 3001?
The Final Odyssey
3001 by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Space Odyssey
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About 5 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 276 pages, about 75,900 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 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much has changed. Then he receives a warning that the Monoliths have decided to destroy the human race.
Subjects: Fiction, Thirty-first century in fiction, Outer space in fiction, Science fiction, Human-alien encounters in fiction, Exploration
