How long does it take to read Red Planet?
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 3 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Heinlein juveniles
Previous: Space Cadet Next: Farmer in the Sky
About 3 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1949. 210 pages, about 57,750 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that could save--or destroy--them all
Subjects: Mars (Planet), Fiction, Science fiction, Life on other planets, Human-alien encounters, Martians
