How long does it take to read Ethan of Athos?
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold takes about 4 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Vorkosigan Saga
Previous: The Warrior's Apprentice Next: Falling Free
About 4 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 239 pages, about 65,725 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
You'd think that an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women would be underemployed... Not so; Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center, is one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. That is, until a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens...females of his own species. But braced or not, his wildest imaginings could never have stiffened him sufficiently for alliance with Dendarii Mercenary Commander Elli Quinn, an utterly gorgeous mercenary intelligence officer who has her own secret interest in Athos's problems...and Ethan as well. The description comes from the publisher. This is one of the books in the Vorkosigan Saga.
Subjects: Obstetricians, Fiction, Fiction, general
