How long does it take to read Red Mars?
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Mars trilogy
Next: Green Mars
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.
Subjects: Mars, science fiction, terraforming, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Ciencia-ficción, Ficción
