How long does it take to read Earth Unaware?
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston takes about 7 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Formic Wars
Next: Earth Afire
About 7 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 392 pages, about 107,800 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
Subjects: Space warfare, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Space and time, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, military
