How long does it take to read The Annals of the Heechee?
The Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl takes about 5 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Heechee Saga
Previous: Heechee Rendezvous Next: The Gateway Trip
About 5 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 316 pages, about 86,900 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Del Ray paperback May 1988: HORIZON'S GATEWAY Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality. He passed the time flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence was interrupted by disaster -- a powerful alien race, intent on the utter destruction of all intelligent life, had reappeared after eons of silence, and the lives of all Heechee and humans were at stake. Even Robin, virtually immortal and with unlimited access to millennia of accumulated data, could not discover what these aliens were -- or how to stop them. Yet it looked as if he was the only one able to deal with the enemy face to face -- a meeting that would determine the future of the entire universe.
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, fantasy, general
