How long does it take to read Altered Carbon?
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Altered Carbon is a British cyberpunk novel from 2002 by Richard K. Morgan. In its future, people store their minds in spinal devices and can be moved into new bodies called sleeves, which makes interstellar travel and near-immortality possible. Wealthy individuals called Meths live for centuries by buying replacement bodies. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite U.N. soldier turned private investigator, is brought out of storage on Earth to look into the death of a rich man. The man cannot remember his final days, and the police see his death differently from him.
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Subjects: Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Thriller, Life on other planets, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
