How long does it take to read Pretender?
Pretender by C. J. Cherryh takes about 6 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Foreigner series
Previous: Destroyer Next: Deliverer
About 6 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 372 pages, about 102,300 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The epic tale of the human survivors of a lost spacecraft, marooned on a planet inhabited by a hostile alien race, follows the civilization's rise from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space.
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space ships, American Science fiction, Space ships in fiction, Space warfare
