How long does it take to read Agent of the Terran Empire?
Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 208 pages, about 57,200 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Flandry, here a captain, undergoes a series of adventures: He is abducted by the Scothians, an alien race hoping to invade the Terran Empire; rescues the Emperor's kidnapped granddaughter; meets Aycharaych, his nemesis in league with the Merseians; and investigates a previously unencountered alien race that has invaded the distant colonial world of Vixen. Captain Dominic Flandry, a naval intelligence officer for the declining Terran Empire, becomes involved with an alien kidnapping, the sacking of Fort Lone by barbarians, and assorted alien spies
Subjects: Science fiction, Terran Galactic Empire, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
