How long does it take to read Blue Mars?
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson takes about 14 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Mars trilogy
Previous: Green Mars Next: The Martians
About 14 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 786 pages, about 216,150 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.From the Paperback edition.
Subjects: Life on other planets, Fiction, Science Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Hugo Award Winner, Life on other planets -- Fiction
