How long does it take to read A Gift from Earth?
A Gift from Earth by Larry Niven takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Known Space
Previous: World of Ptavvs Next: Neutron Star
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 254 pages, about 69,850 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
No Place for Bleeding Hearts The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans—it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life only existed on the one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers surved somehow under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!
Subjects: Known Space, Space colonies, Fiction, Ringworld (Imaginary place), Life on other planets, Fiction, science fiction, general
