How long does it take to read Adulthood Rites?
Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Lilith's Brood
About 5 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second book in the Lilith's Brood trilogy, this story takes place years after the arrival of Oankali aliens in the first book. Now, the Oankali have established some colonies on Earth, where they live and breed with humans. Other villages are populated by human resisters, who refuse to interact or breed with the Oankali but are frustrated because they can no longer reproduce on their own and feel they have no future. Akin, a boy "construct" born with mixed human and Oankali DNA, confronts these tensions between the two species and grapples with his own identity.
Subjects: Genetic engineering, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Human-alien encounters, Persoonlijke integriteit, Genetisch materiaal
