How long does it take to read Speaker for the Dead?
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card takes about 7 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Ender's Saga
Previous: A War of Gifts: An Ender Story Next: Xenocide
About 7 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 415 pages, about 114,125 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
Subjects: Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, Extraterrestrial beings
