How long does it take to read Flight from Nevèrÿon?
Flight from Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany takes about 7 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Return to Nevèrÿon
Previous: Neveryóna Next: Return to Nevèrÿon
About 7 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 385 pages, about 105,875 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Return to Nevèrÿon" is a series of eleven “sword and sorcery” stories—a science fiction/fantasy series depicting an empire beyond the borders of history where human destinies entwine in a strange design. It is an intricate web of adventure, intrigue and desire and a literary puzzle where meaning, parable and paradox collide. The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history, in a location that might be Africa or Asia. Many of the stories have different protagonists and, indeed, different sets of foreground characters. But all take a greater or lesser part in recounting an overall story running through the whole series, the history of a man called Gorgik the Liberator. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Originally published in four volumes during the years 1979-1987, those volumes are: 1. Return to Nevèrÿon 2. Tales of Nevèrÿon 3. Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities 4. Flight from Nevèrÿon 5. Return to Nevèrÿon (aka The Bridge of Lost Desire)
Subjects: Science Fiction, Fantasy, American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
