How long does it take to read Beggars & Choosers?
Nancy Kress, Cassandra Campbell, Mirron Willis, Kirsten Potter
Beggars & Choosers by Nancy Kress, Cassandra Campbell, Mirron Willis, Kirsten Potter takes about 6 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 346 pages, about 95,150 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover Tor paperback February 1996: Nancy Kress returns to the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning world of Beggars in Spain to tell a new tale in an America of the future, strangely altered by genetic modifications. Millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of the handsome and intellectually superior gene-modified, who are in turn running scared from the astonishing, nearly superhuman powers of the Sleepless. Wracked by the results of irresponsible genetic research and nanotechnology, overburdened by a population of jobless drones, the whole world is on the edge of collapse. Who will save it? And for whom?
Subjects: Genetic engineering, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
