How long does it take to read Brightness Falls from the Air?
Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree, Jr. takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 1985. 382 pages, about 105,050 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment is coming and the 16 unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star.
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Stars, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general
