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How long does it take to read Ringworld?

Larry Niven

Ringworld by Larry Niven takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Ringworld series

Next: The Ringworld Engineers

About 6 hours 10 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1970. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 16 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three subsequent sequels: 1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The Ringworld Throne 2004: Ringworld's Children The core series was developed with three side series of prequels set in the same Ringworld universe, and written in collaboration: 1988–2009: Man-Kzin Wars (by various edited by Niven) 2007–2010: Fleet of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner) 2010-2011: Juggler of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • drug use

How these are chosen

Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, Fiction, science fiction, general, Ringworld (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, Ringworld (Imaginary place), Science fiction

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