How long does it take to read The Abyss Beyond Dreams?
The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton takes about 11 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Chronicle of the Fallers
Next: A Night Without Stars
About 11 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 627 pages, about 172,425 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 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When images of a lost civilisation are "dreamed" by a prophet, Nigel Sheldon is asked to investigate. The dreams seem to be coming from the Void - a mysterious area of living space with hugely destructive capabilities. Crash landing on an unknown planet within the void, Nigel finds far more than he expected. Bienvenido: a world populated by the descendants of survivors from Commonwealth colony ships. For centuries they have been fighting a desperate battle against the Fallers, a space-born predator artificially evolved to conquer worlds. Nigel soon realises that the Fallers hold the key to the destruction of the Void itself.
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Space warfare, Extraterrestrial beings, Survival
