How long does it take to read Foreigner?
a novel of first contact
Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh takes about 6 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Foreigner series
Next: Invader
About 6 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1994. 378 pages, about 103,950 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 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story of humans stranded on an alienplanet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost itsway 500 years earlier. They live on an island and theonly contact they are allowed with the mainland isthrough one human, the foreigner of the novel.
Subjects: Space colonies, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Mospheira (imaginary place), fiction
