How long does it take to read Caliban's War?
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey takes about 11 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Expanse
Previous: Leviathan Wakes Next: Drive
About 11 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 611 pages, about 168,025 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun...
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings, Space warfare, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
