How long does it take to read Houston, Houston, Do You Read??
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. takes about 2 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 11 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1996. 119 pages, about 32,725 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After a solar flare damages their ship, three astronauts are rescued by survivors of an Earth that has undergone dramatic change.
Subjects: Astronauts, Fiction, Human cloning, Matriarchy
