How long does it take to read Great Sky River?
Great Sky River by Gregory Benford takes about 6 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Galactic Center Saga
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About 6 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 350 pages, about 96,250 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Warner paperback August 2004: Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child Toby of the Bishop Tribe are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity -- neither organic, nor cybernetic nor living matter -- reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen. But can the fallen descendant of starfarers understand this alien being in time -- and seize his only chance to save his family and mankind from final annihilation?
Subjects: Artificial intelligence, Fiction, Black holes (Astronomy), Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction
