How long does it take to read Inhibitor Phase?
Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds takes about 8 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Inhibitor Cycle
Previous: Absolution Gap
About 8 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2021. 460 pages, about 126,500 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything utterly. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate: to eliminate a passing ship, before it can bring unwanted attention down on them. Only something goes wrong. There's a lone survivor. And she knows far more about Miguel than she's letting on...
Subjects: Science fiction, Revelation Space
