How long does it take to read Forever Free?
Joe Haldeman, Andre Martin Kostner
Forever Free by Joe Haldeman, Andre Martin Kostner takes about 4 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Forever War series
Previous: Forever Peace Next: Peace and War
About 4 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 266 pages, about 73,150 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Ace paperback November 2000: A veteran of The Forever War, William Mandella lives on the snow-covered planet set aside for his kind, supporting his family by ice-fishing and teaching physics. But now Mandella's life has become obsolete. The denizens of Earth have evolved into a group consciousness and taken control of his new home -- keeping its independent human inhabitants alive for the sake of their diverse gene pool. But that's not how Mandella and his fellow soldiers want to exist. So, in desperation, he rallies the humans to hijack a spaceship and take to the stars, to begin humanity anew... Then something goes wrong. The crew is forced to abandon ship -- and return home in suspended animation twenty-five years later. But the planet has aged centuries during their voyage -- and the crew wonders what new world awaits their arrival...
Subjects: Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, war & military, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction
