How long does it take to read Alien Contact?
Marty Halpern, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul McAuley, Karen Joy Fowler, Harry Turtledove, George Alec Effinger, Pat Murphy, Mike Resnick, Bruce McAllister, Ernest Hogan, Pat Cadigan, Adam-Troy Castro, Michael Swanwick, Mark W. Tiedemann, Elizabeth Moon, Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, Robert Silverberg, Jeffrey Ford, Molly Gloss, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter
Alien Contact by Marty Halpern, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul McAuley, Karen Joy Fowler, Harry Turtledove, George Alec Effinger, Pat Murphy, Mike Resnick, Bruce McAllister, Ernest Hogan, Pat Cadigan, Adam-Troy Castro, Michael Swanwick, Mark W. Tiedemann, Elizabeth Moon, Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, Robert Silverberg, Jeffrey Ford, Molly Gloss, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The thought war / Paul McAuley How to talk to girls at parties / Neil Gaiman Face value / Karen Joy Fowler The road not taken / Harry Turtledove The aliens who knew, I mean, everything / George Alec Effinger I am the doorway / Stephen King Recycling strategies for the inner city / Pat Murphy The 43 Antarean dynasties / Mike Resnick The gold bug / Orson Scott Card Kin / Bruce McAllister Guerrilla mural of a siren's song / Ernest Hogan Angel / Pat Cadigan The first contact with the gorgonids / Ursula K. Le Guin Sunday night yams at Minnie and Earl's / Adam-Troy Castro A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick Texture of other ways / Mark W. Tiedemann To go boldly / Cory Doctorow If nudity offends you / Elizabeth Moon Laws of survival / Nancy Kress What you are about to see / Jack Skillingstead Amanda and the alien / Robert Silverberg Exo-skeleton town / Jeffrey Ford Lambing season / Molly Gloss Swarm / Bruce Sterling MAXO signals / Charles Stross Last contact / Stephen Baxter
Subjects: Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
