How long does it take to read Limits?
Limits by Larry Niven takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: LIMITS Two aliens fascinated by Man's fondness for defining boundaries decide to make sure he doesn't get out of the habit. THE LION IN HIS ATTIC Seventy-six years after Atlantis drowned, a sorceress and a prince learn to their dismay that not all lions eat red meat. TABLE MANNERS When the proprietor of the Draco Tavern is invited to dine with some carnivorous etees, he brings along a xenobiologist to coach him in alien etiquette. But he forgets that he is already outfitted with the oldest guide of all. A TEARDROP FALLS In his youth, Hilary Gage had fought men and studied the ravages of Berserkers. As a machine, he terraformed planets and lay in wait... YET ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL At last, a solution to the problem of radioactive wastes that costs nothing and yields an immodest profit.
Subjects: American Science fiction
