How long does it take to read Decision at Doona?
Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 245 pages, about 67,375 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Del Ray paperback June 1979: After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed mass suicide. So the Terran government made a law -- no further contact would be allowed with sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy. Therefore Doona could be colonized only if an official survey established that the planet was both habitable and uninhabited. But Spacedep had made a mistake -- Doona was inhabited. Now the colonists choice was limited. Leave Doona and return to the teeming hell of an overpopulated Terra. Or kill the catlike Hrrubans. Or learn, for the first time in history, how to coexist with an alien race...
Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Doona (imaginary place), fiction, Space colonies, Fiction
