How long does it take to read Century Rain?
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds takes about 9 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 525 pages, about 144,375 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late - for the past and the future of two worlds" -- Cover verso.
Subjects: Fiction, Women archaeologists, Time travel, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, science fiction, general
