How long does it take to read Aliens?
Aliens by Alan Dean Foster takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
57 years after Ellen Ripley survived an an encounter with an unknown alien lifeform that slaughtered her ship-mates abord the interstellar cargo ship Nostromo, she is discovered and revived from hypersleep to discover that her claims of a "xenomorph" are not only disbelieved, but considered pure fantasy. A few weeks later, events on the planet that she had visited before cause her former employers, "Wayland Yutani", to request her to accompany a squad of Colonial Marines back to the windblown hell known as LV-426. What she and the Colonial Marines find there is unbelievably terrifying...
Subjects: Life on other planets, Fiction, Ripley (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, media tie-in, Fiction, science fiction, general, Interplanetary voyages
