How long does it take to read A Fire Upon the Deep?
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge takes about 11 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Zones of Thought
Previous: The Blabber Next: A Deepness in the Sky
About 11 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 605 pages, about 166,375 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.
Subjects: Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Life on other planets, Science fiction, Intellect, Long Now Manual for Civilization
