How long does it take to read Children of God?
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell takes about 8 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 451 pages, about 124,025 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place.
Subjects: Fiction, Jesuits, Twenty-first century, Belief and doubt, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, religious
