How long does it take to read Iron Council?
Iron Council by China Miéville takes about 10 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 564 pages, about 155,100 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mieville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon--this time, decades later.It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon's most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . .The bold originality that broke Mieville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, New Crobuzon (Imaginary place), Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction, science fiction, general
