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How long does it take to read The Forge of God?

Greg Bear, Stephen Bel Davies

The Forge of God by Greg Bear, Stephen Bel Davies takes about 8 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 41 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1987. 474 pages, about 130,350 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 29 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 41 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 26 minutes

The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.

Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general

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