How long does it take to read Methuselah's Children?
Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Future History
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About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 188 pages, about 51,700 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rear Cover Synopsis "After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and chronicled in 'Revolt in 2100', the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for all. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; NOTHING could make them foreswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality..."
Subjects: Longevity, Fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Novel℗ʺla, Cie ncia-ficcio
