How long does it take to read Elysium Fire?
Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency
Previous: The Prefect Next: Machine Vendetta
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia has a dark side. As members of the habitats start suddenly and randomly dying, a charismatic figure begins to sow insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of inhabitants to break away from the Glitter Band.
Subjects: Cults, Death, Artificial Implants, Memory, Space colonies, Fiction
