How long does it take to read The Fall of Hyperion?
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons takes about 10 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Hyperion Cantos
Previous: Hyperion Next: Endymion
About 10 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1990. 561 pages, about 154,275 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
Subjects: Littérature américaine, Science-fiction américaine, Science-fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
