How long does it take to read Earth Afire?
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Formic Wars
Previous: Earth Unaware Next: Earth Awakens
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Subjects: Space warfare, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, military, Space flight
