How long does it take to read Descent of Anansi?
Descent of Anansi by Larry Niven takes about 5 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 278 pages, about 76,450 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 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... It's the American Revolution all over again. But this time it's a rag-tag band of space colonists vs. The United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread -- 200 miles above the earth.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
