How long does it take to read Matter?
Matter by Iain Banks takes about 10 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Culture series
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About 10 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 593 pages, about 163,075 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.
Subjects: Fiction, Government investigators, Brothers and sisters, Murder, Life on other planets, Science Fiction
