How long does it take to read Dragon's Fire?
Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey
Dragon's Fire by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 16 of Dragonriders of Pern
Previous: Dragonsblood Next: Dragon Harper
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a mine containing firestone, the mineral that gives the dragons of Pern their ability to breathe fire, explodes, killing the miners trapped there, young Cristov volunteers to take over the dangerous task of retrieving the explosive rock for the dragons.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Dragons, Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), Life on other planets, Space colonies
