How long does it take to read Songs of Earth and Power?
Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear takes about 11 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 28 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 625 pages, about 171,875 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A new edition of two old works, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage, first published in the 1980s. One is on a boy's journey in a fantasy world whose inhabitants had their souls stolen by the Serpent. The other is set in Los Angeles and concerns efforts to have a concerto performed. The works are vehicles for ideas on the origins of mankind, religion and music.
Subjects: Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, American Fantasy fiction
