How long does it take to read The Line of Polity?
The Line of Polity by Neal Asher takes about 7 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 424 pages, about 116,600 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon is somehow involved. Agent Cormac must investigate this, also navigate the difficulties of Masada, a world about to be subsumed as the Line of Polity is drawn across it. The wilderness of Masada is without breathable air and full of dangers. Roaming out there is the rogue biophysicist Skellor, who controls something so potent that Polity Als will stop at nothing to prevent him using it and that's besides the monstrous hooders, siluroynes and the weird and terrible gabbleducks ... " --B.cover.
Subjects: Imaginary places, Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Human-alien encounters, Artificial intelligence, Science fiction
