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How long does it take to read Destroyer?

C. J. Cherryh

Destroyer by C. J. Cherryh takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 7 of Foreigner series

Previous: Explorer Next: Pretender

About 6 hours 27 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 27 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 2 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

C.J. Cherryh, one of the most prolific and acclaimed SF writers in the world, delivers the seventh book in her Foreigner series, and the first book in the new Foreigner trilogy-the epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true SF odyssey.

Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space ships, Space ships in fiction, Space warfare, Human-alien encounters in fiction

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