How long does it take to read The Clockwork Rocket?
The Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan takes about 7 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Orthogonal
Next: The Eternal Flame
About 7 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 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 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A series of strange meteors enters a planetary system, and a world is in danger. Can space travellers from this world, travel in time and space, and return in time with the technology needed to avert the disaster? This is the first book of the Orthogonal trilogy, following the travellers on their mission.
Subjects: Space flight, Meteors, Technology, Fiction, Space tavelers, Time travel
