How long does it take to read Helliconia Summer?
Helliconia Summer by Brian W. Aldiss takes about 7 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 398 pages, about 109,450 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: Imagine a world a thousand light years from Earth, where each season lasts for generations, and each generation knows only one season. Where twin suns warm the icy winds of the Sibornal, the forests blaze and kingdoms turn into ashes... once every 2500 years. Where it is summer again on Helliconia.
Subjects: Life on other planets, Fiction, English Science fiction, Space habitats, Themes, Ecology
