How long does it take to read Ring Around the Sun?
Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak takes about 3 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 205 pages, about 56,375 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The world would never be the same again. First there was the razor blade that never wore out, then the everlasting light bulb, then the car that never broke down. The world's biggest industries were rapidly being squeezed out, the planet heading for economic collapse. People began to disappear—families, whole towns, vanished without a trace. Then Jay Vickers spun a child's top and found himself, literally, on another world...
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction
