How long does it take to read Tales of Nevèrÿon?
Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Return to Nevèrÿon
Next: Neveryóna
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 264 pages, about 72,600 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A group of interrelated stories taking place in an ambiguous distant past setting that on the surface resembles sword-and-sorcery. As always, Delany works his magic by drawing you in with vivid sensory immediacy, and then opening up uncountable doors of thought into language, semiotics, politics, economy and technology. The first in an addictive and haunting series, it also forms, along with many of his other works, part of a larger work he calls Some Informal Remarks Toward the Modular Calculus. If that intimidates you, don't worry about it. Enjoy the story and take time to reflect on all the thoughts it invites. You can go back and read the appendices later.
Subjects: American Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, sword and sorcery, adventure, slavery, empire
