How long does it take to read The Andromeda Strain?
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Michael Crichton's 1969 novel is told in the manner of an official account of a classified government undertaking. A military satellite comes back to Earth in Arizona, and the people of the nearby town of Piedmont are found dead. Fearing an alien contaminant, officials activate a protocol that gathers a small group of scientists, led by Dr. Jeremy Stone, in a hidden underground laboratory in Nevada. There they race to identify the lethal microorganism, learn how it behaves, and keep it from spreading beyond the facility. The story is an early techno-thriller.
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Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, Alien life forms in fiction, Biological weapons, Science fiction, Extraterrestrial microorganisms
