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How long does it take to read A Time Of Changes?

Robert Silverberg

A Time Of Changes by Robert Silverberg takes about 3 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 55 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1971. 214 pages, about 58,850 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 55 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 27 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture. One of the strangest is on Borthan, where the founding settlers established the Covenant, which teaches that the self is to be despised, and forbids anyone to reveal his innermost thoughts or feelings to another. On Borthan, the filthiest obscenities imaginable are the words “I” and “me.” For the heinous crime of “self-baring,” apostates have always paid with exile or death, but after his eyes are opened by a visitor from Earth, Kinnall Darival, prince of Salla, risks everything to teach his people the real meaning of being human.

Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction

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