How long does it take to read Earthlight?
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1955. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Del Rey paperback September 1991: THE TIE THAT BINDS The human race had been born on a unique world... a world loaded with mineral wealth, unmatched elsewhere in the solar system. This accident of fate gave a flying start to man's technology -- but it made man dependent on his home world. What were the independent republics on Mars and Venus to do? United in a Federation, they were still dependent on Earth for such essentials as mercury, lead, uranium -- and modern technology could not survive without them. There had to be a better way...
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, English Science fiction, Fiction
