How long does it take to read Excession?
Excession by Iain Banks takes about 8 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Culture series
Previous: The State of the Art Next: Inversions
About 8 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1996. 460 pages, about 126,500 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization
