How long does it take to read Ring?
Ring by Stephen Baxter takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Xeelee Sequence
Previous: Flux Next: Vacuum Diagrams
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 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 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Harper paperback June 1996: Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS -- and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos. The Universe had a door. And it was open....
Subjects: Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
