How long does it take to read The Electric State?
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag takes about 2 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 33 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2018. 139 pages, about 38,225 words. Written for young adults.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in"--
Subjects: Voyages and travels, Fiction, Robots, Teenage girls, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
