How long does it take to read Revelation Space?
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, John Lee takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Inhibitor Cycle
Next: Redemption Ark
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason — and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself — could be irrecoverably altered….
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, Science Fiction, Space colonies in fiction, Life on other planets, Space colonies
