How long does it take to read Look to Windward?
Look to Windward by Iain Banks takes about 6 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Culture series
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About 6 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 369 pages, about 101,475 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.
Subjects: Long Now Manual for Civilization, Space warfare, Utopies, Life on other planets, Utopias, Vie extraterrestre
