How long does it take to read The Chronicles of Pern?
First Fall
The Chronicles of Pern by Anne McCaffrey takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of Dragonriders of Pern
Previous: All the Weyrs of Pern Next: The Dolphins of Pern
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1993. 306 pages, about 84,150 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star"—an erratic planet that periodically brings a biological menace, in the form of falling thread. The twelfth Dragonriders of Pern book, First Fall shares its early setting only with one previously published book in the series, Dragonsdawn (1988). MacCaffrey places Dragonsdawn and First Fall in a perspective of the ancient history of Pern.
Subjects: Fiction, Pern (Imaginary place), Fantasy fiction, Dragons, Dragons in fiction, Space colonies in fiction
