How long does it take to read Privateers?
Privateers by Ben Bova takes about 7 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1985. 383 pages, about 105,325 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This latest of Grand Tour chronicles tells a brilliant tale of revenge, love, and freedom while also laying out a vision for the human future in Space. Setting itself up for a final confrontation between Soviet official Vasily Malik and American/Venezuelan industrialist Dan Randolph, this book reasonably describes how Third World Nations might take the lead in both liberty and space exploration as America withdraws from a world teeming with dictatorships.
Subjects: Space industrialization, Privateering, Fiction, Space Stations, Space Mining, Fiction, science fiction, general
