How long does it take to read The Apocalypse Codex?
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross takes about 7 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Laundry Files
Previous: The Fuller Memorandum Next: Equoid
About 7 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 386 pages, about 106,150 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller--an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill--becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministry and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And it's Bob's job to make sure Persephone doesn't cause an international incident. But it's a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about--a global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean up.."--
Subjects: Evangelists, Geeks (Computer enthusiasts), Fiction, Intelligence service, Bob Howard (Fictitious character), FICTION / Fantasy / General
