How long does it take to read Against the Tide of Years?
Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling takes about 8 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Nantucket series
Previous: Island in the Sea of Time Next: On the Oceans of Eternity
About 8 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 454 pages, about 124,850 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Against the Tide of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own....
Subjects: Fiction, Time travel in fiction, Time travel
