How long does it take to read Ecce and Old Earth?
Ecce and Old Earth by Jack Vance takes about 7 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Cadwal Chronicles
Previous: Araminta Station Next: Throy
About 7 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 390 pages, about 107,250 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 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sequel to Araminta Station. It was just an old piece of paper. The original Title Deed and Charter that preserved for all time the unspoiled wilderness beauty ofthe planet Cadwal: no human settlement, no mining or commercial development. No interference with the teeming variety of its native life forms. But now the Charter had gone missing from the archives on Old Earth - just as an unholy conspiracy of the greedy and the unscrupulous campaigned to open up Cadwal to unlimited exploitation. Glawen Clattuc from Araminta Station and tantalising Wayness Tamm find themselves charged with the alarming task of tracking down the missing Charter, thwarting a galaxy-wide plot and saving a planet...
Subjects: Life on other planets in fiction, Life on other planets, Fiction, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Cadwal (imaginary place), fiction
