How long does it take to read Planet of Exile?
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin takes about 2 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Hainish Cycle
Previous: Rocannon's World Next: City of Illusions
About 2 hours 34 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1966. 140 pages, about 38,500 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years—& ten of Werel’s years are over 600 terrestrial years. The lonely & dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter—a season that lasts for 15 years—the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches & call the farborns. But hilfs & farborns have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals & eerie preying snow ghouls. Will they join forces or be annihilated?
Subjects: Space colonies, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Life on other planets, Texts
