How long does it take to read Chaos and Order?
the gap into madness.
Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson takes about 12 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Gap Cycle
Previous: A Dark and Hungry God Arises Next: This Day All Gods Die
About 12 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 684 pages, about 188,100 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From first page Bantam paperback July 1995: They are a handful of fugitives from an outlaw world, old enemies trapped on a renegade spaceship in a desperate bid for survival. Among the unlikely crew of Trumpet are Morn Hyland, once a UMCP cop, now a prisoner of the electrodes planted in her brain, her son Davies, "force-grown" to adulthood by the alien Amnion, the amoral space buccaneer Nick Succorso, and the unstoppable cyborg Angus Thermopyle. Locked in a lethal battle for control of the ship, they are also the target of the police ship Punisher. But Punisher's human captain is torn between duty and sympathy. She's been ordered to kill everyone aboard Trumpet -- everyone except for the one whose blood carries the key to the ultimate alien triumph: the ability to appear perfectly human.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, African Americans, History, Fiction, Community life
