How long does it take to read Marooned in Realtime?
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Realtime/Bobble
Previous: The Peace War
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: "In The Peace War Vernor Vinge introduced the technology of bobbles, creating spheres where time stands still while minutes, years, or eons pass by outside. Originally used to counter the nucler threat, then to enforce an oppressive government, they don't really come into their own until the century after the Peace War. What better means for one-way time travel? With the bobble plus longevity treatments, human achievements would seem to have no limits... You can hardly turn the pages fast enough... (Marooned in Realtime) is a winner." -- Locus
Subjects: Long Now Manual for Civilization, Life on other planets, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Time travel
