How long does it take to read Existence?
Existence by David Brin takes about 16 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 12 minutes
A long haul
First published 2012. 884 pages, about 243,100 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingstone is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an “alien artifact.” Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer. A message in a bottle; an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.
Subjects: Science Fiction, Antiquities, Fiction, World Wide Web, Amerikanisches Englisch, Extraterrestrial beings
