How long does it take to read The Man Who Fell to Earth?
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis takes about 3 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 185 pages, about 50,875 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from Anthea, a planet ravaged by nuclear war, drought and environmental collapse, where only a few of his kind remain alive. He lands alone in Kentucky and passes himself off as a human businessman, though Earth's heavier gravity and atmosphere strain his body. With a patent attorney's help, he turns advanced Anthean knowledge into inventions and founds World Enterprises. The fortune is meant to pay for a spacecraft that can carry his people to Earth, so Newton must keep his purpose hidden from everyone around him.
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Subjects: Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Science Fiction, Life on other planets, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, general
