How long does it take to read The Gentle Giants of Ganymede?
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P. Hogan takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Giants series
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About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the 21st century, on Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, a huge alien spacecraft is discovered. The aliens originated on Minerva, a planet which used to obit between Mars and Jupiter but was destroyed 25 million years ago and has become the asteroid belt. Is there anything left of this ancient race?
Subjects: Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Non-Classifiable