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How long does it take to read Pacific Edge?

Kim Stanley Robinson, Claire Bloom, Stephan Lambadaris

Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, Claire Bloom, Stephan Lambadaris takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of Three Californias Trilogy

Previous: The Gold Coast

About 5 hours 17 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 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 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up in this "green" world, now finds himself caught up in the struggle to preserve his community's idyllic way of life from the resurgent forces of greed and exploitation. Pacific Edge is the third novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias Trilogy.

Subjects: Fiction, Twenty-first century, Fiction, general, California, fiction, Environmentalists

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