How long does it take to read Flood?
Flood by Stephen Baxter takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Flood/Ark
Next: Ark
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 496 pages, about 136,400 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The "deeply scary"(BBC Focus) new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. View our feature on Stephen Baxter’s Flood. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive together, they make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected this… The world they have returned to has been transformed by water—and the water is rising. As it continues to flow from the earth’s mantle, entire countries disappear. High ground becomes a precious commodity. And finally, the dreadful truth is revealed: before fifty years have passed, there will be nowhere left to run...
Subjects: Climatic changes, End of the world, Floods, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
