How long does it take to read The Last Colony?
The Last Colony by John Scalzi takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Old Man's War
Previous: The Ghost Brigades Next: Zoe's Tale
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 320 pages, about 88,000 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
Subjects: Space warfare, Life on other planets, Fiction, Science fiction, Space colonies, Fiction, science fiction, military
