How long does it take to read The Hidden Family?
Book Two of the Merchant Princes
The Hidden Family by Charles Stross takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Merchant Princes
Previous: The Family Trade Next: The Clan Corporate
About 5 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 318 pages, about 87,450 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade, and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists -- with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.
Subjects: Merchants, Family-owned business enterprises, Merchants in fiction, Fiction, Family relationships, Women journalists
