How long does it take to read Rama II?
Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Rama
Previous: Rendezvous with Rama Next: The Garden of Rama
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1989. 496 pages, about 136,400 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover of Bantam paperback December 1990: THE RAMANS ARE BACK... Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed trough our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed -- or had existed -- elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational -- and perhaps even deadly.
Subjects: Rama (Imaginary space vehicle), Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Extraterrestrial beings, Space vehicles, Fiction, science fiction, general
