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How long does it take to read First Warning?

Acorna's Children

Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

First Warning by Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough takes about 6 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 48 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 371 pages, about 102,025 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 20 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 48 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 15 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins.First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own through a universe filled with new adversaries and adventures.A simple journey home to visit her parents turns into a race against time when Khorii happens upon a derelict spacecraft drifting in space, its crew dead in their seats. But this gruesome discovery is only a dread harbinger -- a deadly plague is spreading across the universe and not even the healing powers of the Linyaari can slow its horrific advance. Khorii, one of the few unaffected by the outbreak, must find the nefarious perpetrators and a cure before the disease consumes all in its path -- including her beloved parents.

Subjects: Fiction, Space ships, Unicorns, Acorna (Fictitious character), Plague, Life on other planets

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