How long does it take to read Luna?
Luna by Ian McDonald takes about 7 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Luna series
Next: Luna: Wolf Moon
About 7 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 398 pages, about 109,450 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal corporation and fought to earn her family's new status. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies... and each other"--
Subjects: Corporations, Space colonies, Corrupt practices, Lunar bases, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera
