How long does it take to read Invader?
Foreigner 2 (Foreigner)
Invader by C. J. Cherryh takes about 7 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Foreigner series
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About 7 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 426 pages, about 117,150 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Daw paperback February 1996: SECOND CONTACT Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit overhead, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments. With the situation fast becoming critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of the atevi is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. But his sudden and premature return to the mainland is cause for more then mere physical discomfort. For during his brief absence, his government has sent in his paidhi-successor, Deanna Hanks -- representative of a dangerous archconservative faction on Mospheira who hate the atevi. And though she should despair when Bren is once again able to fill his post, no recall order comes. Cut off from his government and haunted by the continuing threat of assassination, Bren realizes his only hope may be to communicate directly with the Phoenix as the spokesman of the atevi -- an action which may cut him off for good from his own species. Yet if he doesn't take this desperate and illegal action, he may be forced to helplessly bear witness to the final destruction of the already precarious balance of world power.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Mospheira (imaginary place), fiction
