How long does it take to read Dark Light?
Dark Light by Ken MacLeod takes about 5 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Engines of Light
Previous: Cosmonaut Keep Next: Engine City
About 5 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 292 pages, about 80,300 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As the humans of Earth finally achieve space travel, they discover that the universe is filled with an infinite variety of intelligent alien life and that they have become pawns in the deadly wars of the alien gods.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Space colonies, Fiction, Life on other planets, Space flight, Science fiction
