How long does it take to read Platform Decay?
Platform Decay by Martha Wells takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of The Murderbot Diaries
Previous: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2026. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for … eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f*)
Subjects: The Murderbot Diaries, science fiction, Robots, Artificial intelligence
