How long does it take to read Children of Ruin?
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky takes about 10 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 42 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 584 pages, about 160,600 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time , the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.
Subjects: Science fiction
