How long does it take to read Downbelow Station?
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Company Wars
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About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Daw paperback February 1981: Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter -- or the jumping off point for a Terrestrial offensive to regain the lost empire. But Pell had always been neutral and was determined to remain so. This is a powerful, complex, and enthralling novel of interstellar conflict and ambitions. In its pages you will meet and strive with many vivid persons, human and non-human, who futures would hang on the outcome of that titanic struggle.
Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, Science fiction, Fantasy, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Fiction / General
