How long does it take to read Lord Kelvin's Machine?
Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock takes about 4 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Langdon St. Ives
Previous: Homunculus
About 4 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 262 pages, about 72,050 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
World-renowned scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his faithful man-servant Hasbro return again to confront the diabolical hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo in a new adventure involving no less than the salvation of the earth itself. The author's previous St. Ives novel, Homunculus, was honored with the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and this latest -- and entirely self-contained -- narrative is another madcap extravaganza through the peril-fraught byways of Victorian England. From the incursion in the night-shrouded skies of a baleful comet to resuscitation of the dead from an icy Norwegian fjord to travel through space and time in Lord Kelvin's wondrous machine, this is a very special Arkham House book, bringing together the idiosyncratic vision of Jim Blaylock and Jeff Potter's incomparable graphics.
Subjects: Fiction, Time travel, Steampunk, Steampunk fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
