How long does it take to read Dragon's Egg?
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward takes about 6 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours
A weekend read
First published 1980. 327 pages, about 89,925 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .
Subjects: American Science fiction, Neutron stars, Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure
